States with Medicaid expansions spend more per enrollee overall than nonexpansion states, and nearly half of expansion states’ enrollees have a chronic condition, a May 28 KFF Health News report found ...

As state officials anticipate Medicaid funding cuts that could strip resources for those with disabilities and chronic health conditions, an army of unpaid caregivers waits in the wings: children.

House Speaker Mike Johnson relies on a Congressional Budget Office estimate for this claim, but the agency didn’t frame it ...

Medicaid is a massive federal and state-funded program that provides health and long term care coverage to low-income people. It covers one in five people nationwide. Democratic members of ...

Payne said she saw the occasional patient who seemed to be taking advantage of the Medicaid system. But “you don’t design a system to punish everyone for the small number of people that are ...

Mr. Bruenig is the founder of People’s Policy Project. House Republicans have proposed adding work requirements to Medicaid, the health insurance program serving tens of millions of low-income ...

Kentucky plans to implement new Medicaid work requirements for certain "able-bodied" adults. The program aims to connect recipients with job placement assistance, education, and training.

(Annual spending on Medicaid topped $880 billion in recent years.) The bill would also impose new measures that are apparently designed to reduce the number of people enrolled in the program ...

which has jurisdiction over Medicaid. A preliminary estimate from CBO finds that the program changes, if enacted, would reduce the federal deficit by $625 billion and increase the number of ...

Legislation introduced by House Republicans late Sunday would slash Medicaid spending significantly ... analysis showing the legislation would increase the number of people without health ...