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Medicaid Update: Trump Pushes Republicans to Mandate Change
President Donald Trump is pushing to have the pharmaceutical industry help fund his tax cuts by requiring drugmakers to lower ...
Bowser urges action to prevent D.C. Medicaid cuts: ‘This is a real threat’
D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser, city officials and healthcare providers Friday outside Children’s National Hospital in Northwest ...
House budget bill should preserve Medicaid's 'original purpose,' says Rep. Jeff Hurd
Medicaid cuts loom over House Republicans' budget reconciliation. Rep. Jeff Hurd, R-Colo. says the "right reforms," like work ...
Republicans weigh cuts to Medicaid that could dramatically affect millions
President Donald Trump's fellow Republicans in the U.S. Congress are weighing steep cuts to the Medicaid health program as ...
The Moment of Truth for Medicaid Cuts Has Arrived
They see this moment as a generational opportunity—perhaps the last they’ll get before a debt crisis hits—to do so. In a ...
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Medicaid: A guide to understanding and covering potential cuts to the program
Congressional Republicans are looking to cut hundreds of billions of dollars in spending, which could impact Medicaid.
Trump says public entitlements like Social Security, Medicaid won't be touched in GOP budget bill
President Donald Trump said public entitlements, such as Social Security and Medicaid, will not be touched in the GOP's ...
$880 billion in Medicaid cuts would be ‘devastating’ for nursing homes and their residents
The House Budget Committee voted in February to seek at least $880 billion in mandatory spending cuts to programs overseen by ...
House conservatives call for controversial Medicaid changes in reconciliation
A group of House conservatives is calling for significant “structural reforms” of Medicaid as part of the Republican ...
Arizona Medicaid and health directors resign rather than face Senate confirmation
Gov. Katie Hobbs' office announced the resignations of Carmen Heredia and Jennie Cunico one day before Heredia was scheduled ...
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NY nursing homes face mounting pressures amid protests and looming Medicaid cuts
Another round of nursing home worker protests is scheduled across western New York this week as employees call for greater ...
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities2dOpinion
House Republicans Won’t Let Go of Repealing ACA; Decimating Its Medicaid Expansion Would Harm Millions of Parents, Children, Disabled People
Taking coverage away from some or all of the 20 million people benefiting from expansion would roll back progress in the 40 ...