Any alteration to Medicaid is going to affect people living with disabilities by creating additional barriers to care, advocates told The Midwest Newsroom. Thousands of Midwesterners obtained health ...

When Medicaid began sharing personal data with federal immigration authorities last year, it upended decades of explicit ...

Debbie Ferrell-Day worries most about who will take care of her 37-year-old son if something happens to her. Takeaways A new federal law that narrowly passed Congress will cut $1 trillion from ...

Congress is poised to cut Medicaid. The reasons abound, but most legislators who support the cuts cite reducing federal spending, unwinding the Affordable Care Act, and even some questionable claims ...

Despite ample recent news coverage about possible deep federal cuts to the program — some misperceptions persist that it is simply a “government handout” program. In fact, according to health polling ...

I try to be fair to people I disagree with. Emmanuel Saez -- the famous UC Berkeley economist who's considered an architect ...

A chief objection to the proposed expansion of emergency Medicaid coverage is that state would have pay 100% of the costs emergency medical services that the federal government disallows.

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