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Outside Planned Parenthood in Ohio as abortion debate rages

Politics Sep 11

Appeals court allows Trump administration to block Medicaid funds to Planned Parenthood

By Associated Press

World Sep 05

Dr. Mehmet Oz testifies before a Senate Finance Committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington
Trump administration investigates Medicaid spending on immigrants in Democratic states

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The Trump administration is taking its immigration crackdown to the health care safety net, launching Medicaid spending probes in at least six Democratic-led states that provide comprehensive health coverage to poor and disabled immigrants living in…

By Angela Hart, KFF Health News, Devi Shastri, Associated Press

Health Aug 07

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Louisiana’s high Medicaid reliance places state on frontlines of health care cuts

President Trump's big budget law is expected to make the largest cuts ever to Medicaid, a program that currently provides health insurance for some 70 million Americans. As Lisa Desjardins reports, those impacts will be felt in House Speaker Mike…

By Lisa Desjardins, Sarah Clune Hartman

Health Jul 30

Demonstrators hold a four-day vigil in protest of cuts to Medicaid, in Washington
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Medicaid recipients in Louisiana brace for impact of work requirements and cuts

Members of the U.S. House have left Washington for their summer break, and Republicans are working to promote the tax and spending cuts President Trump recently signed into law. But concerns about cuts to Medicaid remain. Congressional correspondent Lisa Desjardins…

By Lisa Desjardins, Sarah Clune Hartman

Health Jul 30

U.S. President Donald Trump attends the "Making Health Technology Great Again" event at the White House in Washington, D.C.
The White House announced a new health data tracking system. How would it work?

President Donald Trump's announcement of a new private health tracking system to help patients access their health records and monitor wellness is raising a host of privacy concerns.

By Amanda Seitz, Associated Press

Jul 30

60 years after Medicaid was signed into law, Trump’s ‘One Big, Beautiful Bill’ is chiseling it back

By Lisa Mascaro, Associated Press

On a July day in 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed legislation into law that launched Medicaid, creating a health care safety net for millions of low-income Americans in one of the crowning achievements of his legacy.

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Jul 28

Judge blocks Trump’s efforts to defund Planned Parenthood

By Kimberlee Kruesi, Associated Press

A federal judge says Planned Parenthood clinics nationwide must continue to be reimbursed for Medicaid funding.

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Jul 09

What experts think of the $50 billion rural health fund in Trump’s big bill

By Laura Santhanam

President Donald Trump's "big, beautiful bill" amounts to the largest cut to Medicaid and rollback in health care coverage in history. The Rural Health Transformation Program is being touted as a way to offset the effects of those cuts, but…

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Jul 07

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Who will be affected by Trump administration’s Medicaid, SNAP work requirements

By Laura Barrón-López, Karina Cuevas

President Trump’s big tax law includes a major provision the GOP has endorsed for years: work requirements for Medicaid recipients and for food stamp benefits. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that 11.8 million Americans could lose medical coverage over the…

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Jul 02

Fact-checking Trump’s remarks at ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ on immigration and Medicaid

By Maria Briceño, Louis Jacobson, Amy Sherman, PolitiFact

President Donald Trump toured Florida’s Alligator Alcatraz migrant detention facility in the Everglades ahead of its first expected detainees. Here is a fact-check of some of his remarks.

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