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Senate releases Trump tax and Medicaid blueprint
Senate Finance Committee Chair Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) on Monday released the Senate’s long-awaited version of President Trump’s tax agenda, which would make the 2017 corporate tax cuts permanent, cut hundreds of billions of dollars in Medicaid spending and phase out renewable-energy tax cuts enacted under President Biden.
The legislative text crafted by Senate Finance Committee Republicans represents the core of Trump’s "big, beautiful bill" and includes the populist tax brea...
How Kennedy’s overhaul could make vaccines more expensive
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s moves to upend decades of vaccine policy could hit patients hardest in their wallets, as shifting guidance over shots could make insurance coverage confusing and scattershot.
For decades, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) independent advisory panel recommended which shots Americans should get and when.
The Affordable Care Act requires all insurance companies to cover...
Kennedy appoints some vaccine critics to ACIP panel
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What’s a Medicaid cut? Senate GOP tiptoes around $800B question
When is a Medicaid cut not actually a cut?
That's the $800 billion question facing Senate Republicans as they write their own version of the sweeping House-passed tax and spending bill.
Administration officials and senators defending against attacks on the bill have coalesced around a message that there will be no cuts to benefits, and the only people who will lose coverage are the ones who never deserved it to begin with: namely immigrants without l...
Dr. Oz on Medicaid cuts: People should ‘prove that they matter’
Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Mehmet Oz defended President Trump's "big, beautiful bill" over criticism that millions of people could lose health coverage, saying those who would face new work requirements should "prove that they matter."
Oz made the comments during an interview on Fox Business on Wednesday, arguing that when Medicaid was created in the 1960s lawmakers did not include work requirements because it "never dawned on anybody that...
CBO: Nearly 11 million people will be uninsured if GOP megabill becomes law
Nearly 11 million people would lose health insurance under the House Republican tax bill, mostly due to cuts to Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act (ACA), according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO).
The CBO's latest report estimates that 10.9 million people would be uninsured over the next decade if the spending package, which includes much of President Trump's legislative agenda, were enacted.
That total includes an estimated 1.4 million ...
Republicans seek ObamaCare rollback in Trump’s megabill
Republicans are seeking a major rollback of ObamaCare coverage under the House-passed megabill that would result in millions of people losing insurance coverage to help pay for President Trump's tax cut extension.
The changes, which echo some of the debate surrounding the 2017 effort to repeal the health care law, have largely flown under the radar amid the heated debate over the bill's billions of dollars in Medicaid cuts.
Democrats want to change th...
Johnson says 4.8 million Americans won’t lose Medicaid access ‘unless they choose to do so’
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) doubled down on his claim that there won't be Medicaid cuts in President Trump's "big, beautiful bill," despite projections that millions of low-income individuals would lose health insurance as a result of the bill.
Johnson, during an appearance on NBC's "Meet the Press," pushed back on independent projections that the bill would lead to 4.8 million people who would lose coverage because of work requirements, saying they won't lose it "unless t...
Hawley stakes ground as chief GOP defender of Medicaid
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) is staking out his spot as a populist defender of Medicaid in opposition to the steep cuts contained in the House-passed megabill to fund President Trump’s domestic agenda.
The senior senator from Missouri — who as the state's attorney general once signed on to a lawsuit seeking to overturn the Affordable Care Act — has made his position clear: He will not support a bill that cuts Medicaid benefits.
Hawley has long warned his party ...