Bethany Lilly testified Wednesday at a House Education and the Workforce subcommittee hearing on employer-sponsored health care. Credit: House Education and the Workforce Committee

Employers should care about the wellbeing of Medicaid, because Medicaid often ends up being the source of coverage for workers who have cancer or other serious, long-lasting health problems.

Bethany Lilly, executive director for public policy at the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, delivered that message Wednesday at a hearing on employer-sponsored health care that was organized by a House Education and the Workforce Committee subcommittee and streamed live on the web.

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Allison Bell, a senior reporter at ThinkAdvisor and BenefitsPRO, previously was an associate editor at National Underwriter Life & Health. She has a bachelor's degree in economics from Washington University in St. Louis and a master's degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. She can be reached through X at @Think_Allison.