While not legally mandated at a federal level, health insurance is generally considered to be an essential employee benefit in the U.S.
As a result, employer-sponsored health insurance remains the cornerstone of American healthcare.
However, for those working for smaller businesses, particularly businesses with less than 50 employees, access to healthcare is becoming increasingly precarious.
For starters, smaller businesses aren’t subject to the same requir...
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The next 100 days will reveal how the White House handles debt
One hundred days into President Trump's second term, your feelings about the administration’s performance so far probably depend in large part on how you voted.
The White House and its allies will say that the most important thing has been immigration, pitching its border and interior enforcement as a stunning success — with a good bit of supporting evidence.
Democrats, on the other hand, are ceaselessly reminding people of the administration's shortcomin...
Medicaid work-requirements are great, but states need flexibility to make them work
I was the first governor to implement work requirements on the working-age population that was on Medicaid. So I feel I have some standing to offer observations on what happened in Arkansas — a few lessons learned and recommendations to Congress as it considers a federal mandate on states to impose work and work-related activities as a condition of Medicaid eligibility.
For a number of reasons, I am firmly in favor of work requirements for able-bodied working-age adults on Med...
Trump’s war with judiciary dominates first 100 days
President Trump has picked dozens of fights since returning to the White House, but few have been so unrelenting as his war with the courts.
Amid nearly 250 lawsuits challenging his agenda in his first 100 days, Trump has made his focus the judges overseeing them.
In courtrooms, his Justice Department has argued that the judiciary has no place sticking its nose in the executive’s business. His own attacks are much starker, ...
GOP wrestles with disagreements over Medicaid cuts
A key House committee is pushing forward with trying to advance its portion of President Trump’s legislative agenda next week, even as Republicans disagree over how deeply to cut Medicaid.
The House Energy and Commerce Committee is planning a May 7 meeting to finalize and advance its portion of the bill, leaving little time for members to iron out differences. The legislation calls for the committee to find $880 billion in savings over a decade, with most of it expected to ...
How Trump 2.0 compares to 1.0, so far
President Trump has used the first 100 days of his second term to dramatically transform government, using executive action to shift the nation’s position on trade, immigration enforcement, foreign policy and government spending to meet his goals.
The second Trump administration has moved quickly to implement the president's agenda across government, including leveraging billionaire adviser Elon Musk's cost-cutting team, while many of his early moves have sparked outcry from D...
Pritzker: Democrats ‘can’t be a party of do nothing’
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) called on his fellow Democrats to stop being “a party of do nothing” and instead take bolder action to counter Republicans' actions.
Pritzker joined MSNBC’s “Inside with Jen Psaki” for an interview Monday evening to expand on the message he delivered to New Hampshire Democrats over the weekend, calling for mass mobilization and protests to push back against the Trump administration.
“That was specifically about what we, as a Democratic P...
House Freedom Caucus members see group as launchpad for higher office
As the House Freedom Caucus has become a path to influence in the Trump era, several members of the hard-line conservative group are hoping that can catapult them to higher office.
Reps. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.) and Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) have launched bids for governor in their respective home states, while Rep. Ralph Norman (R-S.C.) is considering a gubernatorial bid of his own.
“I've always believed that HFC’s been perfectly … aligned up, if not perfectly, closely ali...
GOP Medicaid debate intensifies as Republicans search for cuts
House Republicans are under the gun to get specific on how they will offset President Trump's domestic policy agenda, and they will soon need to decide if they will touch the political stove by trying to scale back Medicaid benefits.
Medicaid is at the heart of the GOP plan to pass a “big beautiful bill” and make budget space for an extension of Trump’s tax cuts. Party leaders have been vague about their plans, but the topic has divided members who are facing a menu of politi...
Cutting federal Medicaid expansion funding could lead to 30k additional deaths: Analysis
An attempt by Republican lawmakers to roll back the federal government’s share of Medicaid expansion could result in tens of thousands of additional deaths, according to an analysis by a liberal think tank.
The analysis by the Centers for American Progress (CAP), shared first with The Hill, found that about 34,200 more people would die annually if the federal government reduced its current 90 percent match for the expansion costs and states responded by dropping the...