Georgia governor’s Medicaid proposal would leave hundreds of thousands uninsured
The state’s Medicaid expansion also imposes cruel work requirements that have been proven ineffective.
By Nick Vachon - November 05, 2019
The state’s Medicaid expansion also imposes cruel work requirements that have been proven ineffective.
By Nick Vachon - November 05, 2019
Medicaid head Seema Verma has pushed work requirements for Americans on Medicaid without proof it improve health outcomes — and despite evidence it’s harmful.
By Nick Vachon - October 25, 2019
A new Republican plan will end the Medicaid expansion, which extended health insurance to 12 million people.
By Dan Desai Martin - October 23, 2019
Stricter rules requiring families to continuously prove their eligibility has led to a rise in uninsured children.
By Emily Singer - October 22, 2019
A new report shows Kentucky is going to waste millions of dollars on enforcing Medicaid work requirements.
By Lisa Needham - October 11, 2019
Trump and the GOP have already pushed for major cuts to food stamps, children’s health care, and school lunches.
By Mike Stankiewicz - August 13, 2019
A new study shows 15,600 deaths could have been prevented if states controlled by Republicans had expanded Medicaid eligibility.
By Dan Desai Martin - July 22, 2019
The Trump administration is trying to set a trap for legal immigrants who thought they did everything right.
By Lisa Needham - May 06, 2019
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, 2019
Kentucky 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, 2019
Trump’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, 2019
Republicans 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, 2019
Obamacare is popular, it is here to stay, and even voters in the reddest of states want it that way.
By Oliver Willis - November 07, 2018
Even 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, 2018
The 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, 2018
Trump 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, 2018
The Trump administration opened the floodgates for GOP governors to cut Medicaid under the guise of ‘work requirements.’
By Oliver Willis - August 15, 2018
The 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, 2018
In 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, 2018
Republicans in Louisiana would rather shut down nursing homes, kicking 20,000 elderly residents onto the streets, than raise taxes.
By Eric Boehlert - May 09, 2018
Republicans 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, 2018
Gov. Matt Bevin tied his tongue in knots trying to explain why cutting Medicaid is actually a positive thing.
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