Medicaid, ICE and Trump
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The White House just spent six months jamming a massive legislative package through Congress with almost no margin for error. Now comes the real challenge.
Political battle erupts over Medicaid work requirements as Republicans frame them as preserving the safety net while Democrats argue they harm vulnerable populations.
Overshadowed is Congress' willingness to cede a constitutional power to the White House. Instead, the case of a disgraced and dead financier looms.
In the name of “protecting vulnerable Americans” the Trump Administration will rip away Medicaid coverage from babies and toddlers CMS announces Medicaid demos that 8 states are implementing to cover babies and young children continuously w/o gaps will no longer be allowed pic.twitter.com/aXF0mKXL9S
An estimated 1.3 million people in New York are at risk of losing their Medicaid coverage in the next decade due to Trump's "One Big Beautiful Bill."
States, already facing cuts to services by Trump administration, now trying to figure out how to fit Medicaid and SNAP cuts into their budgets.
Rather than push people off Medicaid, President Donald Trump’s so-called “big, beautiful bill“ — now law — will “move more people into the workforce,” argued Mehmet Oz, administrator for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
Nearly three million Americans are either enrolled in Medicaid in multiple states or are simultaneously enrolled in both Medicaid and a subsidized Obamacare exchange insurance plan, according to a new analysis from the Health and Human Services Department.
New Hampshire, expects 46,000 New Hampshire residents will lose healthcare from Medicaid cuts in "Big Beautiful Bill."
Congress set aside $50 billion for rural hospitals and medical providers to allay fears over the billions more in historic cuts to federal health care spending that President Donald Trump signed into law on Independence Day.