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State report details steep cost of potential federal Medicaid cuts for Michigan
Michigan officials have calculated the risk of potential federal Medicaid cuts, finding one proposal could nix coverage for ...
GOP leaders snubbed the hard right on Medicaid. They’re vowing to fight back.
House Republican leaders appear to have won support from key moderates by backing off the most controversial proposals to ...
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities13hOpinion
More Frequent Medicaid Renewals Would Increase Errors and Lead Eligible People to Lose Health Coverage
One part of congressional Republicans’ plan to take Medicaid away from people in the House Energy & Commerce Committee bill ...
The Commonwealth Fund7d
Deep Medicaid Spending Cuts Put Health Care Coverage at Risk for One of Five Enrolled Children
As part of 2025 budget reconciliation, Congress is expected to consider unprecedented cuts to Medicaid funding, with several ...
Center for American Progress3dOpinion
The Collateral Damage of Medicaid Work Requirements
Congressional Republicans’ proposed Medicaid work reporting requirements could strip coverage from hundreds of thousands of ...
Medicaid Expansions Saved Tens of Thousands of Lives, Study Finds
The study, published in the National Bureau of Economic Research on May 5, tracked nearly 40 million people who gained ...
The Commonwealth Fund20hOpinion
More Than 100,000 Michigan Residents Nearly Lost Medicaid Coverage Under Work Requirements
In a sense, that was pretty good. In 2019, a Manatt Health analysis of Michigan data predicted a coverage loss as high as 183 ...
Arizona Daily Wildcat25d
Medicaid funding at risk: How will Arizonans be affected?
Founded in 1965, Medicaid is the primary program providing comprehensive health insurance coverage to 79 million ... component of cuts in funding is the loss of tens of millions towards the ...
The Denver Post7d
Many Coloradans would lose Medicaid under Trump’s proposed expansion cuts (Editorial)
And the program also wouldn’t be available to those who suffer a job loss in the future ... to reduce the federal government’s coverage of the Medicaid expansion need to know that their ...
St. Louis Post-Dispatch29d
The skyrocketing cost of weight-loss drugs has state Medicaid programs looking for a solution
A government study is exposing the risks of junk food ... can use the pricey diabetes drugs for weight-loss purposes. Pennsylvania's Medicaid coverage of the drugs is expected to cost $1.3 ...