To work, she needs health care. To get health care, she needs to work. So now what?

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A coverage gap Catch-22: To work, Selinda Walker needs health care. To get health care, she needs work.

Forty-seven-year-old Selinda Walker had to move back in with her elderly mother after an untreated and severe case of Graves’ disease left her unable to work and live independently.  As a single, low-income individual with no children, Walker has no path toward health care in the state of Mississippi, which remains one of 10 states in the country not to expand Medicaid. And as lawmakers advocate for work requirements in Medicaid expansion bills,…