Trump official spent millions in tax dollars to make herself look good
Top Medicaid official Seema Verma wasted millions of tax dollars on consultants to make herself look good while she tried to kill Obamacare.
By Oliver Willis - March 29, 2019Top Medicaid official Seema Verma wasted millions of tax dollars on consultants to make herself look good while she tried to kill Obamacare.
By Oliver Willis - March 29, 2019Kentucky Republicans keep trying to take health care away from their constituents — but a federal judge just stopped them yet again.
By Lisa Needham - March 27, 2019Trump’s budget proposal calls for repealing the Affordable Care Act, and includes a $220 billion cut to food stamps, among other draconian proposals.
By Emily Singer - March 11, 2019Republicans are so obsessed with gutting health care that they’re willing to undermine the democratic process to do it.
By Dan Desai Martin - February 05, 2019Obamacare is popular, it is here to stay, and even voters in the reddest of states want it that way.
By Oliver Willis - November 07, 2018Even the hacks who gave Kobach the idea for his Medicaid policy have no idea what he’s talking about when he says it would save Kansas $2 billion.
By Eric Boehlert - October 25, 2018The Republican tax scam has completely failed, so now Mitch McConnell wants to gut America’s social safety net to foot the enormous bill.
By Oliver Willis - October 17, 2018Trump is making sure Republicans get their wish: denying affordable health care to as many low-income people as possible.
By Dan Desai Martin - August 20, 2018The Trump administration opened the floodgates for GOP governors to cut Medicaid under the guise of ‘work requirements.’
By Oliver Willis - August 15, 2018The Trump administration vowed to continue ‘undeterred’ in its efforts to take away health care coverage from people with low income.
By Oliver Willis - July 27, 2018In a scathing ruling, a federal judge blocked Kentucky’s move to strip health care away from as many as 100,000 people.
By Caroline Orr - June 30, 2018Republicans in Louisiana would rather shut down nursing homes, kicking 20,000 elderly residents onto the streets, than raise taxes.
By Eric Boehlert - May 09, 2018Republicans realized their plan to take poor people’s health care away was actually expensive. So they want to pay for it by cutting welfare, too.
By Matthew Chapman - March 30, 2018Gov. Matt Bevin tied his tongue in knots trying to explain why cutting Medicaid is actually a positive thing.
By Matthew Chapman - January 15, 2018