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Why the health care lobby failed to stop cuts to Medicaid funding

Doctors, hospitals, and health insurers for weeks issued dire warnings to Republican lawmakers that millions of people would lose health…

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Colorado Medicaid to pay for collaborative work to bring mental health into primary care

Colorado’s Medicaid program will start paying for the behind-the-scenes work of treating people with mental health conditions and addictions in…

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Advocates warn that Medicaid cuts in the big budget law put home-based health care at risk

The recently passed GOP tax and spending law cuts about a trillion dollars from Medicaid over the next decade. Those…

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DOJ Issues Subpoenas Targeting Transgender Care to Minors: What Health Care Providers Need to Know

In a brief press release published on July 9, 2025, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced the issuance of more than 20…

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There’s now a chance for bipartisan health care policies, but partisan tensions are running high

WASHINGTON — Republicans’ first major policy bill this year was a partisan affair: They cut Medicaid funding by some $1…

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Trump’s hiring freeze has jeopardized postal workers’ health care, IG says

The inspector general charged with overseeing the federal government’s dedicated HR agency is warning that the system undergirding the U.S….

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Frontline health care workers call out corporate control at Medical Alley Annual Dinner

Staff report National Nurse magazine – April | May | June 2025 Issue Nurses and supporters rallied outside the Medical…

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Joe: Sens. Hawley, Murkowski voted to slash health care to give their billionaire buddies tax cuts

IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. July 10, 202507:21 ‘Deep impact…

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Pritzker on passing of Trump budget bill: ‘330,000 Illinoisans will lose their health care’

An estimated 330,000 Illinois residents will be stripped of their Medicaid coverage following the July 4 passage of President Donald…

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Why Iowa Department of Corrections is exploring privatizing prison health care system

The Iowa Department of Corrections is exploring privatizing correctional health care, potentially employing nurses and other medical workers under a…