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Inside the Fight to Save SNAP and Medicaid
Experts also warn that some states will begin preemptively taking action to cut benefits ahead of time—many states have legislatures that…
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Medicaid Cuts? Yes. But the GOP Is Quietly Cutting Medicare, Too.
PAYGO is not a term that crosses many lips in daily discourse. But it may soon be used more widely, as its impact resonates in the…
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The “Undeserving Poor” Deserve Medicaid
In 2016, Charles Manson, then serving a life sentence for murdering or conspiring to murder seven people, developed a lesion on his large…
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Trump Agriculture Chief Pushes Delusional Plan for Medicaid Recipients
Stocks tumbled on Monday as Donald Trump unveiled new tariff rates for a number of countries, taking a few steps closer, once again, to…
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MAGA Rep Makes Wild Claim About Why It’s OK People Will Lose Medicaid
It doesn’t appear that the president’s “big, beautiful bill” will muster enough votes in time. Donald Trump has imposed a July 4 deadline…
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Trump Apparently Didn’t Know His Own Bill’s Extreme Medicaid Plan
It doesn’t appear that the president’s “big, beautiful bill” will muster enough votes in time. Donald Trump has imposed a July 4 deadline…
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Vance Says It Doesn’t Matter How Many People Lose Medicaid in Budget
The fate of the centerpiece legislation of President Trump’s agenda—the wildly unpopular, social safety net–slashing, “big, beautiful…
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Trump’s Fury at Thom Tillis Backfires, Wrecking His Vile Medicaid Scam
President Trump is raging at GOP Senator Thom Tillis for telling the truth about the Senate version of his budget bill, which could knock…
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Joni Ernst’s Sick Response to Medicaid Cuts Has Tanked Her Career
Will Iowa Senator Joni Enst call it quits after her humiliating defense of Donald Trump’s budget bill? Several Republican aides,…
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RFK Jr. Hands Medicaid Data to ICE as It Ramps Up War on Immigrants
The Trump administration is giving the personal data of Medicaid-enrolled immigrants to the Department of Homeland Security, according to…
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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…
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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,…
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House Republicans Pass Sweeping Medicaid Cuts by a Single Vote
House Republicans passed Trump’s “big, beautiful” spending bill by just one vote early Thursday morning. After hours of deliberation, the…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Dr. Oz: How His Millions Collide With Medicare
Dr. Mehmet Oz, the celebrity TV doctor nominated by President Trump to oversee Medicare and Medicaid, has been a relentless promoter of…
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Oz, Trump’s Medicare Nominee, Pledges to Divest Interests in Health Care Stocks
Since 2023, Dr. Mehmet Oz, the celebrity doctor nominated by President Trump to head the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, has…
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Steve Bannon Has Dark Warning for Republicans Planning to Cut Medicaid
Steve Bannon, former architect of the MAGA movement turned podcaster, warned that Republicans making cuts to Medicaid would affect members…
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Texas removes 1.7 million people from health-care plan
Texas has removed millions of residents from health-care programs as part of a national "unwinding" process that began after the end of…
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The $8 Billion Children’s Vaccine Fund Kennedy Would Oversee
When President Bill Clinton worked with a bipartisan Congress to enact a federal program to guarantee vaccines for poor children, they…
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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…
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Should Medicare, Medicaid cover anti-obesity drugs? Doctors speak out
In what may be one of his final major acts in the White House, President Joe Biden has proposed extending Medicare and Medicaid to cover…