Tag: Medicaid

Faith leaders and advocates hold nationwide eulogies for Americans projected to lose their lives due to sweeping reductions in Medicaid, SNAP, and public health funding.

Trump’s push to redirect federal healthcare dollars into individual cash payments while ending Medicaid and ACA subsidies is drawing warnings of a deepening national crisis and renewed calls for universal, publicly financed coverage.

A growing number of lawmakers, candidates, and activists are demanding new Democratic leadership after eight senators joined Republicans to reopen the government, leaving Affordable Care Act protections and Medicaid funding untouched.

Planned for 16 acres on the edge of Salt Lake City, Utah’s new homelessness campus would combine mass shelter, court-ordered treatment, and “work-conditioned housing.” Supporters call it a model of reform, while advocates warn it mirrors forced labor and internment.

With 42 million people set to lose $8 billion in food assistance on November 1 because the Trump administration refuses to release existing federal funds, governors of both parties are declaring emergencies, shifting state reserves, and suing the federal government to prevent mass hunger.

Amid a leadership purge at the CDC, Bernie Sanders says Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is “endangering the health of the American people” and urges a bipartisan investigation.

A new Senate report reveals how private equity firms gutted community hospitals, endangered patients, and left taxpayers and workers to clean up the mess.

Despite rising out-of-pocket costs and millions losing coverage, U.S. health insurance giants posted record profits in 2024 while their CEOs took home a combined $146 million.

Ai-jen Poo highlights the role of immigrants, who make up a third of the caregiving sector, and says Trump’s crackdown on immigration hastens the dwindling of care available to the aging and elderly.

A federal court injunction halts a Trump-backed law that would have cut off Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood, threatening care for over a million patients nationwide.