How Medicaid expansion saves lives and taxpayer dollars in Idaho’s health care system | Opinion
Medicaid expansion also removes barriers to coverage for many people with mental illness helping them receive the mental ...
WJTV Jackson on MSN1d
Advocates rally for Mississippi Medicaid expansion
Medicaid expansion is one of the biggest topics of the 2025 Mississippi Legislative Session with a push coming from both ...
Raleigh News & Observer3d
NC Medicaid could face risk from congressional GOP ideas to fund tax cuts, immigration
When North Carolina lawmakers drafted a Medicaid expansion bill ... $1.6 billion that came into the state from the ARP, softened opposition. Disagreements between the state House and Senate ...
Independent Record3d
Ambitious Democratic proposal for Medicaid expansion dies just weeks into session
Other than the reauthorization of Medicaid expansion, all that remained in the updated version was a $3 million allocation to reopen 10 public assistance offices and direction to the state health ...
The Hill3d
States’ Medicaid portal access restored after lapse under Trump, but it’s ‘not functioning correctly’
After losing access to a Medicaid federal funding portal after an aid freeze by the Trump administration, states say they’re regaining access, but some are reporting that the site isn’t functi ...
Politico3d
State Medicaid payments inaccessible amid broader federal funding freeze
Medicaid funding to states is frozen due to a nationwide outage in government payment processing systems, causing mass confusion across the country. Congressional Democrats said Trump’s ...
CNN2d
Trump’s federal grant pause creates confusion over Medicaid funding
The Trump administration’s freeze on federal grants sparked chaos and confusion at state Medicaid agencies on Tuesday. Although the White House insisted that Medicaid, which provides health ...
Reuters4d
States say Medicaid access cut, White House says no payments disrupted
More than 70 million people are covered by Medicaid, which is jointly paid by the states and the federal government with each state running its own program. Federal Medicaid assistance is ...
The Macomb Daily3d
DNC criticizes Trump, GOP for potential elimination of Medicaid expansion
The Democratic National Committee revealed estimated losses in 16 of 22 states that would be impacted by the elimination of the Medicaid expansion that took effect in April 2014 as part of the ...
KTHV4d
Arkansas governor seeks work requirement for Medicaid expansion recipients
She claimed it would also reduce issues that Medicaid expansion recipients encounter while allowing the state to still utilize Medicaid as a safety net instead of what she calls a "poverty trap." ...
The Hill2d
Democrats: Americans’ health on the line if Medicaid scaled back
Medicaid cuts would affect around 22 million people in states that expanded the program ... The Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion has given 22 million Americans access to health care.
Healthcare Dive4d
Lawmakers report states shut out of Medicaid payment portals following Trump funding freeze
Multiple lawmakers in Congress reported Tuesday that states are being shut out of Medicaid payment portals after the Trump administration enacted a freeze on all federal financial assistance ...