Judge blocks Medicaid frailty rule; Elke Sommer dies; Lula win

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorIn Boston, a federal judge, Richard Stearns, has blocked a Medicaid rule that made chronically ill people prove their condition significantly impaired their ability to work.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorSo you had to be sick, and then also prove you were sick enough.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorTwenty-five states and the District of Columbia sued in June.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorThe judge wrote that enforcing an unlawful definition of medically frail may lead to disenrollment of otherwise eligible vulnerable individuals.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorI'd have failed that test. My knees have covered every blizzard since nineteen ninety-six.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorWork requirements of eighty hours a month still start January first for adults nineteen to sixty-four in the expansion.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorOnly the frailty definition is blocked, Hank, so your knees keep their case.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorGood. They've filed more paperwork than the court has.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorSeparately, in Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva won the presidential runoff with more than fifty-one percent of the vote to Jair Bolsonaro's forty-eight.

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    Gloria Vance · World News AnchorHe will be sworn in on January fifth at age eighty.