Congress must preserve Medicare funding to protect seniors’ health care | Opinion
When accounting for inflation, my fellow physicians and I are paid almost one-third less for seeing Medicare patients than we ...
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HCA Healthcare, Tenet Healthcare CEOs say there's still wiggle room in Washington on Medicare, Medicaid reform
Top executives at the country’s largest for-profit health systems say they’re keeping the pressure on policymakers to ...
Musk muddies Trump’s messaging on Social Security and Medicare
The popular entitlement programs came with a warning label from Republican senators not to slash benefits as Democrats look ...
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Cuts in Social Security, Medicaid and Medicare? Musk’s plan unveiled
Elon Musk is talking about cutting Social Security benefits, including Medicare and Medicaid, under the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
Republicans’ use of loaded terms is looking to sway Medicaid debate in Congress
Republicans such as Sen. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, are ...
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Long-term consequences of funding reduction to Medicaid are unclear
The local impact of a Republican-led proposal to potentially cut Medicaid remains unclear, as some of Clark County’s largest ...
Physician advocates tell Congress: no more cuts to Medicare
It’s not every day you see hundreds of white coats flock to Capitol Hill. This February however, physician advocates from ...
Some Republicans fear Medicaid cuts could cost them their jobs
The possibility of Medicaid cuts has become a headache for the most vulnerable Republicans in Congress — and has handed ...
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Possible Medicaid cuts raise concern in Yakima County
Yakima Valley patients and health care providers are concerned about possible Medicaid cuts. Nearly 50% of Yakima County ...
In defense of Medicaid work requirements
The federal government and the states spent $870 billion on Medicaid in 2023. Work requirements would cut waste and help preserve Medicaid for those who need it.
R.I. legislators debate Trump’s impact on business, the budget, and the Washington Bridge
While Democrats see “nothing but instability coming out of Washington,” one Republican leader says, “Things are going really ...
Republicans once maligned Medicaid. Now some see a program too big to touch
Washington — Every time a baby is born in Louisiana, where Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson handily won reelection last ...