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Sunday, April 17, 2011

Doctors: State plan to limit Medicaid ER trips risks lives

Karen Smith, with her foster baby and adopted daughter Taiana Smith, is a nurse but isn't always sure when an emergency-room visit is necessary. The baby, unidentified due to foster-program rules, is medically fragile; Taiana was born with sickle-cell anemia.