Month: April 2025

Medicaid cuts jeopardize the right to age at home

healthcare, News, Opinion

If you or someone you love wants to age at home — and nearly 90 percent of older Americans do — there’s a number you should know: $2.3 trillion. 

That’s how much could be cut from Medicaid under current budget proposals. And while headlines often focus on how these cuts would affect nursing homes, what’s less understood but equally devastating is what they would mean for home-based care.

These cuts would strike at the heart of the support system that allows millions ...

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Medicaid cuts jeopardize the right to age at home

healthcare, News, Opinion

If you or someone you love wants to age at home — and nearly 90 percent of older Americans do — there’s a number you should know: $2.3 trillion. 

That’s how much could be cut from Medicaid under current budget proposals. And while headlines often focus on how these cuts would affect nursing homes, what’s less understood but equally devastating is what they would mean for home-based care.

These cuts would strike at the heart of the support system that allows millions ...

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Abdul El-Sayed launches Michigan Senate campaign

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A former health director and gubernatorial candidate launched his campaign on Thursday for Michigan’s open Senate seat next year, becoming the second major Democrat to enter the race. 

Abdul El-Sayed, who ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic nomination for governor in 2018 and oversaw the health departments for the city of Detroit and Wayne County, joined state Sen. Mallory McMorrow (D) in the Democratic primary to succeed retiring Sen. Gary Peters (D-Mich.) in 2026. 

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Biomedical Innovation and Equitable Access—Reply

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In Reply We appreciate Dr Lindpaintner’s comments on our recent Viewpoint. We agree that high prices represent an important barrier to access, with drug pricing serving as one of the most salient examples of this issue. In fact, this challenge epitomizes what we term the health equity valley of death, wherein systemic factors—including those related to cost and access—hinder the equitable dissemination of medical innovation, particularly to the most vulnerable populations. Dr Lindpaintner acc...

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Newsom signs $2.8B Medicaid bailout despite Republican attacks

health care, medicaid, News

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed legislation to close a $2.8 billion Medicaid funding gap despite Republicans in his state pushing back.

On Monday, Newsom signed legislation to close the budget gap in the state’s Medicaid services to ensure coverage for 15 million people through June. It’s part of California’s plan to fix the $6.2 billion gap in the state’s Medicaid budget after the state launched an expansion to give all low-income adults coverage regardless of their i...

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Whole Hog Politics: What do Democrats really want?

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On the menu: Tillis draws a top Dem opponent; Paxton, Cornyn headed for brutal battle; old is out for Dem challengers; fat suits; sign of the times 

Politics is like investing or shooting skeet: You don’t want to be on the target, you want to be just ahead of it.

In our crazy, fugazi, reverse-engineered parliamentary system, the principal questions at all times are which party will control the White House and then whether the president can eke ...

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Senate GOP divided over House demands for spending cuts

News, Senate

Senate Republicans are deeply divided over demands by House conservatives to cut at least $1.5 trillion, and possibly more, from the federal budget over the next decade, putting Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) in a tough position.

Thune acknowledged to reporters Thursday that his Senate GOP colleagues are divided over how much to cut from the federal budget to offset the cost of extending President Trump’s 2017 tax cuts and other Trump priorities.

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Trump’s right that the system is rigged, but he’s not helping

congress, Donald Trump, healthcare, medicaid, Medicare, News, Opinion

I’m a Black woman with a Ph.D. in cell and molecular biology, spent 10 years working for Congress. I now work for a philanthropy that believes diversity, equity and inclusion are among this nation’s greatest strengths.

So President Trump and I don’t have much in common, except for two things. First, we’re both from Queens, so we’re not afraid to say what’s on our minds. Second, we both agree that the government as it’s currently constructed isn’t working for everybody.

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Conservative group launches ads supporting ACA tax credits

Donald Trump, health care, News, obamacare
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