Cara Ellis was 27 when she got health insurance — which she’d gone without most of her life — through an expansion of Medicaid that allowed more, low-income adults to enroll in the government plan.
Now Ellis, 39, a Pikeville native and senior at Morehead State University, said she’s worried she could lose coverage under pending, major changes in Medicaid required by federal and state law.
She credits Medicaid with saving her life after she was diagnosed in 2019 with thyroid cancer—four years after she qualified for health coverage…