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Tag: Medicaid

GOP’s $4.5 trillion tax giveaway: Slashing Medicaid and food stamps to...

House Republicans propose massive tax cuts for billionaires while gutting Medicaid, food assistance, and student loan programs, sparking outrage from lawmakers and advocacy groups.

GOP’s federal trifecta and the looming threat to U.S. healthcare

What’s next for healthcare? GOP’s agenda signals cuts and higher costs.

United Nations expert castigates Amazon, Walmart, DoorDash over ‘disgraceful’ labor practices

UN rapporteur challenges corporate giants on poverty wages and labor violations.

Medicaid purge has now impacted at least 2.1 million people—including many...

"States like Florida and Arkansas are weaponizing the bureaucracy against the poor and revoking healthcare for millions, the vast majority for incomplete paperwork."

‘Enormous policy failure’: states throw hundreds of thousands—including many children—off Medicaid

"We knew this was coming," wrote one policy expert. "But we still treat these burdens like they're unavoidable natural disasters."

Medicaid Cutoffs: an America horror story

Some 15 million Americans on Medicaid are now being thrown off the program. No elected official should stand for this.

15 million people could lose coverage as nightmarish Medicaid ‘purge’ begins

"I feel sick," said one physician. "Medicaid is not enough: we need seamless, lifelong universal care now."

Despite coronavirus threat, Americans for Prosperity still leads fight against Medicaid...

Coronavirus or not, AFP’s opposition to health care for the poor and working poor remains resolute.

Former healthcare executive pleads guilty to bribing state senator

“Raveendran’s plea based on his egregious criminal conduct underscores our decision to charge him initially for Medicaid fraud following our extensive investigation involving millions of documents.”

Why Trump’s goon in charge of Medicare and Medicaid should resign...

Seema Verma’s attacks on Medicare and Medicaid, along with her close involvement in the Trump administration’s efforts to weaken and destroy the Affordable Care Act, have hurt Verma’s public image.

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Trump-Musk Social Security fraud hunt yields chaos, not criminals

An internal document reveals that the Trump administration’s crackdown on supposed fraud in Social Security phone claims has identified just two questionable cases out of more than 110,000—prompting bipartisan outrage and warnings of a politically motivated attack on the program.

Governor Hochul to make New York center of nuclear revival in US

Governor Kathy Hochul has also become involved in promoting nuclear power nationally.

The rise of AI warfare: How autonomous weapons and cognitive warfare are reshaping global...

The future of warfare may be decided by AI, but will humans have a role to play?

Harm reduction, not border cops, credited for historic drop in US overdose deaths

Experts say grassroots public health efforts—not federal drug crackdowns—are driving the largest decline in overdose deaths ever recorded, despite ongoing political attacks on harm reduction.

The MAGA Movement is Jonestown writ large

The reversion to primitivism bears a striking resemblance to the rise of the MAGA movement.