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Wash, Dry, Enroll: Finding Medicaid Help at the Laundromat - KFF Health News

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State Medicaid and Affordable Care Act coverage programs have long struggled to connect with lower-income Americans to help them access health care.

Some programs are trying an alternative approach: meeting people at the laundromat.

Outreach workers visit laundromats to help people get and use health coverage, including by helping schedule checkups or maternity care.

Fabric Health helped keep people enrolled during the Medicaid unwinding’ when everyone on the program had to get renewed.

Outreach workers focused on laundromats in towns that had high rates of people being disenrolled for paperwork reasons.

“Good help is hard to find,” Paola Flores , 38 , of Clinton , Maryland , told a Fabric Health worker she needed help switching Medicaid plans.

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English

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