MEDICAID CUT PUSHBACK — Patient advocacy groups and health care workers are ramping up pressure on Republican lawmakers to steer clear of massive cuts to Medicaid that GOP leadership is proposing.

Millions have been spent on ads, and the healthcare sector is lobbying Republicans hard to spare hospitals and patients from ...

The proposed House budget includes conservative social policies that target LGBTQ rights and diversity programs.

The Senate on April 3 voted 52-48 to pass an amended budget resolution for fiscal 2025, a significant move toward aligning both chambers on a unified budget framework that could unlock the ...

Harsh comments by Dr. Mehmet Oz and pressure to save money for tax cuts are raising chances a GOP-controlled government could crack down on insurers.

The “presumptive eligibility” legislation states that Medicaid will pay for a pregnant woman’s outpatient medical care for up ...

But the more than 300 advocacy groups argue Medicaid is already a “lean program,” and the cuts required under the budget blueprint would hit state budgets hard — pushing them to remove ...

States that do provide coverage have tried to manage costs by putting prescribing limits on the GLP-1s. There’s also some ...

There’s just no way to do those cuts in Alabama without significantly harming children, seniors, and people with disabilities." ...