Nearly 800,000 Nevadans are covered by Medicaid, a federal health insurance program used by one in five Americans who would otherwise struggle to afford medical care.
The program helps provide vital medical services, like the medication that Manuel Santamaria, a Las Vegas-based father of three, says that he uses for his 16-month-old daughter, Luna. After Luna’s birth—also covered by Medicaid—doctors discovered that she had an autoimmune disease known as psoriatic arthritis.
One of her treatments uses a topical steroid called Clobetasol, which Santamaria says prevents Luna’s skin from breaking out in “itchy patches of pink, scaly skin.”…