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Should You Have to Work to Get Medicaid? Some Red States Say Yes
By Abigail Abrams
Medicaid Work Requirements Stall in Several States
By Abigail Abrams
Can You Be Forced to Work in Order to Get Medicaid?
By Abigail Abrams
How Trump Inadvertently Sparked a New Disability Rights Movement
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Kentucky Is First to Adopt Medicaid Work Requirement
The state of Kentucky has become the first to adopt the Trump administration's new policy of imposing work requirements as a precondition of receiving Medicaid benefits. Consequently, residents of Kentucky who are on Medicaid and...
By Alana Abramson
January 13, 2018
White House Unveils Presidential Wish List for 2018
President Trump notched a major legislative win at the end of 2017, delivering the tax reform package he’d promised as a “Christmas gift” to the country. The White House now faces 2018 hoping to channel...
By Tessa Berenson
January 3, 2018
This Smart Label Will Tell You When Your Food is Spoiled
These are today's best ideas
By The Aspen Institute
October 11, 2017
Many Americans Disapprove of Trump. Here's What They Think of His Policies
President Trump isn't just down in the polls personally, so are some of his policies. After six months in office, Trump's approval rating is just 37% in the Gallup daily poll, and he's hit record...
By Emma Talkoff
August 10, 2017
How the Senate Health Care Bill Would Hurt Seniors in Nursing Homes
Laura Brown is worried about the Senate health care bill, but not for her own sake. The Minneapolis-based artist's 96-year-old grandmother, Dorothy, lives in a nursing home and relies on Medicaid to pay the bill....
By Anna Rumer
July 5, 2017
Beyond Repeal and Replace
The Republican plan for Obamacare scares GOP governors
By Philip Elliott
June 29, 2017
How the Senate Health Care Bill Could Hurt Medicaid Recipients
Susan Lees works at least 40 to 50 hours a week as a nanny for two young kids. Recently, she started walking dogs while the kids are in school to “make ends meet.” But despite...
By Jack Brewster
June 28, 2017
State Medicaid Leaders Call Senate Health Care Bill 'Unworkable'
"It would be a transfer of risk, responsibility, and cost to the states of historic proportions"
By Alana Abramson
June 26, 2017
How the Trump Administration Is Reversing Progress on HIV Treatment
As an HIV researcher and clinician, I have seen firsthand the virus’s disproportionate devastation of sexual minorities, the poor and many people of color. Nevertheless, steady research progress during recent years has allowed us to...
By Adaora Adimora
June 23, 2017
Trump Promised He Wouldn't Touch Medicaid. The Senate Bill Includes Billions in Cuts
"I'm not going to cut Medicare or Medicaid"
By Jack Brewster
June 22, 2017
5 Things You Need to Know About the Senate's Health Care Bill
The Senate health care bill released Thursday would cut Medicaid for low-income Americans, roll back tax hikes passed under the Affordable Care Act and allow states to waive standards on insurance coverage. Named the Better...
By Jack Brewster
June 22, 2017
Health Experts Slam Trump's Proposed Budget
Funds to NIH, CDC and Medicaid would all be chopped under the proposed budget
By Alexandra Sifferlin
May 24, 2017
GOP Health Care Bill Would Require New Moms on Medicaid to Find Work 60 Days After Birth
Thanks to a new provision introduced this week
By Madeline Farber / Fortune
March 24, 2017
4 Republican Governors Came Out Against the GOP Health Care Bill
Four sitting Republican governors have come out against the GOP health care bill. In a joint letter sent Thursday to the leaders of the House and Senate, the governors of Ohio, Michigan, Nevada and Arkansas...
By Ryan Teague Beckwith
March 17, 2017
Three Conservatives Vote Against the Republican Health Care Bill
Three conservative Republicans voted against the leading plan to replace Obamacare on Thursday, a sign of increasing dissent within the GOP as the party struggles to repeal President Obama's signature health care law. In the...
By Sam Frizell
March 16, 2017
Cutting Planned Parenthood Funding Would Lead to More Unplanned Births, Report Says
The Congressional Budget Office estimates that thousands of women on Medicaid would end up having children they would not otherwise have had if Planned Parenthood funding is cut. In a long-awaited analysis of the Republican...
By Ryan Teague Beckwith
March 13, 2017
14 Million Could Lose Out Under GOP Health Care Plan
Fourteen million people would lose health insurance by 2018 under the new Republican plan to replace Obamacare, according to a long-awaited Congressional Budget Office report, a dramatic increase that would shake up the American health...
By Sam Frizell
March 13, 2017
Planned Parenthood Sues Texas Over Medicaid Funding
Organization sues to protect health access for over 13,000 patients
By Charlotte Alter
November 23, 2015
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Last Week Tonight
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next year
By Melissa Locker
November 2, 2015
Texas Eliminates Funding to Planned Parenthood
Texas is eliminating taxpayer funding for Planned Parenthood in the state, based on concerns over the organization's fetal tissue donations, the governor announced on Monday. Texas Governor Greg Abbott's office issued a statement, saying Texas...
By Alexandra Sifferlin
October 19, 2015
How Obamacare Has Impacted The Uninsured Rate
An annual survey by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recorded the sharpest drop in uninsured adults in 2014 since the survey began in 1997. The uninsured rate among adults under 65 dropped...
By Claire Groden / Fortune
June 23, 2015
The Number of Uninsured Americans Continues to Drop
36 million people were uninsured last year
By Alexandra Sifferlin
June 23, 2015
Five Best Ideas of the Day: March 31
1. Is the sharing economy opening the door for big business to abuse contract workers? By Jon Evans in TechCrunch 2. With fins off many menus, scientists see a glimmer of hope for sharks. By...
By The Aspen Institute
March 31, 2015
Rate of Americans Without Health Insurance Hits New Low
States that expanded Medicaid and launched state-run insruance exchanges rack up double-digit declines
By Dan Kedmey
February 24, 2015
This Is What Keeps Rich People Up at Night
This is what keeps high earners up at night
By Martha C. White
February 18, 2015
Medicaid Expansion Likely Off the Table in 5 States
Boosters still have hope in states that didn't have elections this year
By Maya Rhodan
November 5, 2014
Five Best Ideas of the Day: October 2
1. A global competition could prime the pump for development of disease-fighting treatments. By James Surowiecki in New Yorker 2. Cancer detecting yogurt? New technology could make diagnosing colon cancer as simple as taking a...
By The Aspen Institute
October 2, 2014
Five Best Ideas of the Day: September 26
1. Al-Shabaab is stronger a year after their horrific attack on a mall in Kenya, thriving on widespread resentment of Kenyan anti-Muslim policies which must be reformed. By the International Crisis Group 2. The unnecessary...
By The Aspen Institute
September 26, 2014
Lawmakers Push Increased Access to Emergency Contraception
Bill comes ahead of a midterm elections in which women are expected to be a key voting bloc
By Charlotte Alter
September 23, 2014
Getting Poor to Get Help: How a Tragic Accident Trapped My Family in Poverty
When Andrea Louise Campbell's sister-in-law was horribly injured, she and her family had to spend down their money and assets to get the medical care they needed
By Andrea Louise Campbell
September 23, 2014
The Most Shocking Mistakes Hospitals Don't Want You to Know About
They include foreign objects left in the body, air embolisms and giving patients the wrong blood type
By David Goldhill
July 31, 2014
Americans Are Totally Unprepared for This Shock
Never mind saving for retirement: Americans today face the bleak prospect of poverty in their golden years because they have no idea how much nursing homes cost and they wildly underestimate how much they’ll need....
By Martha C. White
June 26, 2014
Morning Must Reads: June 10
In the news: Five American troops killed in southern Afghanistan; Ukraine’s new President Petro Poroshenko talks to TIME about his Russian neighbors; A scathing Veteran Affairs Department report; Hillary Clinton's ABC interview; The Virginia Medicaid fight
By Alex Rogers
June 10, 2014
Sebelius: Obamacare Rollout Was ‘Terribly Flawed’
Former Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius speaks frankly just days after her resignation about the botched introduction of the Affordable Care Act, saying original estimates of its timetable were "flat-out wrong"
By Charlotte Alter
April 14, 2014
Ryan's Balanced Budget Plan Comes at a Steep Cost
House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan has released his fiscal year 2015 budget that would cut $5.1 trillion in spending by repealing Obamacare, eliminating USAID and set aside less funding to fight climate change, among other big reductions
By Jay Newton-Small
April 1, 2014
Ryan Attacks Poverty War
Wisconsin Republican Congressman Paul Ryan is taking aim at government programs he says haven't done enough to lower the United States' poverty rate
By Alex Rogers
March 3, 2014
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