One of the prime targets is Medicaid, the joint federal and state-funded program that provides health coverage to more than 72 million low-income Americans. Republicans see Medicaid as a program ...

“There are people who want to cut to the bone,” said one GOP lawmaker who has recently spoken to Trump to urge him not to accept major cuts to Medicaid and other benefit programs. “I’m ...

When Sen. John Barrasso of Wyoming asked Robert F. Kennedy Jr. about his commitment to aiding rural hospitals during Kennedy’s confirmation hearing, it was one of the rare moments when both a ...

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Washington (CNN) — As GOP hardliners spent the weekend pushing party leaders to cut deeper into Medicaid in an effort to advance Donald Trump’s tax and border agenda, swing-district ...

It will only be more effective and better." Elsewhere, expansion of Medicaid is on the cards in one of the few states that does not have it. In Kansas, Democratic Governor Laura Kelly has ...