Medicaid cuts could reduce health care access for many of the state’s Native Americans

By: DAKOTA LASZLO LSU Manship School News Service BATON ROUGE – New Medicaid rules requiring recipients to work and reverify coverage every six months will disproportionately affect the 85% of Native Americans living in Louisiana, tribal leaders and Indigenous experts say. While the 4,000 Native Americans belonging to four tribes officially recognized by the federal government under longstand…