Rocky Transition: Medicaid to Private HMOs

Eight-year-old Mikeriya Ainsley of Georgia said she gets teased at school because of the way she looks and talks. "They say I don't fit in," Ainsley said. Ainsley was born with a brain disorder and developmental delays, which means she struggles with basic tasks such as buttoning her shirt. All her life, Georgia's Medicaid system paid for Ainsley to receive weekly physical, occupational and speech therapy, along with several other low-income children, at a facility in Monroe, Ga....Full Story