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. Continue reading
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. Continue reading
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… Continue reading
Jul 07 Watch 6:18 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… Continue watching
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. Continue reading
Jul 01 WATCH: Senate narrowly passes Trump's 'big, beautiful' bill on tax and spending cuts By Lisa Mascaro, Mary Clare Jalonick, Matt Brown, Associated Press The bill next goes back to the House, where Speaker Mike Johnson of Louisiana warned off big revisions from his chamber's version. Continue reading
Jul 01 Senate works a tense overnight session as Republicans seek support for Trump's big bill By Lisa Mascaro, Mary Clare Jalonick, Matt Brown, Associated Press Thune wants to satisfy Republicans worried the bill's reductions to Medicaid will leave millions more people without care and those in his conservative flank seeking steeper cuts to hold down deficits ballooning with the tax cuts. Continue reading
Jun 30 Watch 6:29 Who would be affected by health care cuts in Senate version of Trump's budget bill By Laura Barrón-López, Doug Adams Recent changes to President Trump’s tax and spending bill would cut roughly $1.1 trillion in health care spending over the next decade, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. It also found the bill would result in 11.8 million people… Continue watching
Jun 27 5 things to know after the Supreme Court said states can block Planned Parenthood's Medicaid funding By Geoff Mulvihill, Laura Ungar, Associated Press Abortion opponents hail it as a victory on principle. Continue reading
Jun 26 Watch 6:00 Supreme Court clears way for states to deny Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood By Geoff Bennett, Jackson Hudgins, Doug Adams The Supreme Court sided with South Carolina, ruling Planned Parenthood and one of its patients could not sue over that state’s effort to deny it Medicaid funds. The 6-3 decision was split along ideological lines and paves the way for… Continue watching