As House Republicans work to meet the $5.8 trillion budget framework laid out by President Donald Trump, attention has turned to Medicaid, the costly federal healthcare program that now consumes nearly $900 billion annually. With the Energy and Commerce Committee required to find $880 billion in spending cuts over the next decade, the Congressional Budget Office estimates that $581 billion will need to come from Medicaid alone.
California is grappling with a major budget crisis after Governor Gavin Newsom and the Democratic legislature pushed forward an aggressive Medicaid expansion.
On April 3, the U.S. Senate confirmed Dr. Mehmet Oz as the new administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) with a 53-45 party-line vote.
Dozens of Hoosiers from nearly 30 counties gathered at the Indiana Statehouse on Tuesday to protest proposed federal Medicaid cuts and Senate Bill 2,...
Medicaid, the joint federal and state health insurance program for low-income individuals, misspent at least $4.3 billion over a three-year period by covering the same patients twice.
President Donald Trump has reaffirmed his commitment to safeguarding entitlement programs such as Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, stating his administration will "not touch" these benefits.
