News
Joni Ernst Just Made Her Awful Response to Medicaid Cuts Even Worse
Newark Mayor Ras Baraka is suing New Jersey’s acting Attorney General Alina Habba and a Department of Homeland Security special agent on…
Tag
Medicaid
News
Medicaid Reform Falls Short for People with Disabilities
The Senate should include reforms to ensure that the program can return to its original purpose of supporting the most vulnerable. Source…
News
Ernst draws groans at Iowa town hall after retort on Medicaid cuts, saying 'we all are going to die'
Republican Sen. Joni Ernst was met with shouts and groans when she said "we all are going to die" as she addressed potential changes to…
News
Joni Ernst Stoops to Shocking Low When Told Medicaid Cuts Will Kill
Republican Senator Joni Ernst had a particularly unhinged response to questions from her constituents at a town hall in Parkersburg, Iowa,…
News
House Republicans tighten Medicaid rules to stop scams, save taxpayers more than $10 billion
Big battles over taxes and Medicaid policy may have dominated the headlines, but tucked inside House Republicans' budget bill are a series…
News
Johnson accuses Democrats of 'twisted the facts' on Medicaid changes
House Speaker Mike Johnson said Sunday that Democrats are lying about the impact President Trump's "big, beautiful bill" will have on…
News
Why Medicaid work requirements place extra burdens on low-income families
Republican lawmakers have been battling over a bill that includes massive tax and spending cuts. Much of their disagreement has been over…
News
Medicaid Enrollment Should Decline
It is currently too high because of abuse and mission creep. Source link
News
Only Two Republicans Were Brave Enough to Vote Against Medicaid Cuts
In March, Musk walked into what he understood to be an ambush, facing heated backlash from Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Veterans…
News
Republican Torched for Falling Asleep Amid Debate on Medicaid Cuts
Republicans want to add work requirements to Medicaid, but having to work themselves is apparently a problem. Representative Ralph Norman…
News
The Republicans’ Medicaid Cuts Could Cause a Rural Unemployment Crisis
Those problems led 136 rural hospitals, or about 3 percent, to close between 2010 and 2021. Almost three-fourths of those were in states…
News
House GOP seeks savings in cutting Medicaid coverage for illegal immigrants, ineligible recipients
The Republican plan to save $715 billion in Medicaid spending largely centers on cutting benefits to people aged 19 to 64 who are…
News
JD Vance’s Surprise Admission About Trump, Medicaid Boomerangs on Him
Then, in a 2017 op ed for The New York Times, Vance argued that the GOP bill would shift large numbers of people “from Medicaid to the…
News
Could Medicaid Cuts Lead Republicans to Break With Trump?
The move comes after Trump’s first choice for the ambassadorship, Representative Elise Stefanik, withdrew her name from consideration…
News
Republicans split on approach to curbing Obamacare Medicaid expansion
House Republicans are struggling to coalesce around a proposal for scaling back the expansion to Medicaid made under Obamacare as they…
Business
Another Problem with Medicaid: It’s Pushing Women Toward Abortion
Directing federal dollars to prenatal care could result in a better long-term financial picture if it helps Americans more readily welcome…
News
GOP Rep. Lays Out Exactly How Party Will Kick People Off Medicaid
But Hegseth and Donald Trump are refusing to admit he did anything wrong, instead painting the defense secretary as MAGA’s latest victim…
News
MAGA Republicans Get Ready to Gut Medicaid to Help Trump
“The President of the United States presents himself as pro-life and if he is a good pro-lifer, he understands that family is the cradle…
News
Block of House Republicans warn they won't support deep cuts to Medicaid
A group of House Republicans warned Speaker Mike Johnson and his leadership team that they would not help pass President Trump's agenda if…
News
To Save Medicaid, We Have to Cut It
Medicaid reform doesn’t mean abandoning the disadvantaged. Source link
News
Early alarm sounded for possible Medicaid cuts reducing opioid addiction treatment for the poor
Democrats warn that if Republicans cut Medicaid funding, particularly from the expansion population as the GOP has suggested is a target,…
News
Medicaid and Welfare Are Wasteful and Fraud-Prone. It’s Time to Fix Them
A bold restructuring, downsizing, and consolidation of public welfare agencies, coupled with greater program integrity, are crucial to…
News
Lawmaker demands answers to reports Musk seeking Treasury payment access
Democrat lawmakers have demanded an explanation from the Trump administration as to why tech entrepreneur Elon Musk and his Department of…
Business
Texas counties have least health insurance coverage
Texas has 19 out of the 20 counties across the U.S. with the highest proportion of their population aged under 65 having no health…