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Senate GOP takes bigger swing at Medicaid in Trump agenda bill

health care, News, Senate

Senate Republicans are taking a bigger swing at Medicaid in their version of legislation to fund President Trump’s domestic policy agenda and extend his first-term tax cuts. 

According to text released by the Senate Finance Committee late Monday, the legislation seeks to clamp down on two tactics states use to boost Medicaid funding to providers: state-directed payments and Medicaid provider taxes. 

The legislation would effectively cap provider taxes at...

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New ad highlights harms of Medicaid cuts​

health care, medicaid, Medicare, News
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Senate releases Trump tax and Medicaid blueprint

health care, News, Senate

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...

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How Kennedy’s overhaul could make vaccines more expensive 

health care, News

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...

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The Rahm Emanuel I know: Separating caricature from character

News, Opinion

A news frenzy has emerged in recent weeks around Rahm Emanuel’s potential 2028 presidential run. To dispel with any suspense: I know Rahm well — and, no, I don’t know whether he will run.

I do know this: Any conventional wisdom diminishing his ability to compete is unwise. That’s because Emanuel can’t be easily discounted. He deserves more than just casual observation.

It’s not easy. As I’ve said in several interviews, he may be the best-known American political lead...

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Kennedy appoints some vaccine critics to ACIP panel

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Trump shouldn’t import socialist price controls 

Donald Trump, healthcare, News, Opinion

Remember when Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump castigated “Comrade Kamala” Harris, then the Democratic nominee, for supporting price controls? It wasn’t that long ago — just last August.  

At a campaign rally in Pennsylvania, Trump told the crowd: “In her speech yesterday, Kamala went full Communist ... She wants to destroy our country. After causing catastrophic inflation, Comrade Kamala announced that she wants to institute socialist price controls.” 

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Hardline House conservatives swing for fences in asks to Senate GOP on megabill

News, Senate

Hardline conservatives in the House are making a broad swath of recommendations to make the “One Big Beautiful Bill” of President Trump’s tax cut and spending priorities even more conservative.

A 10-page memo labeled to Senate Republicans from “House Conservatives” — with input from members of the House Freedom Caucus while not being officially from the group — and shared with The Hill shows the hardliners swinging for the fences with numerous suggestions to change the mega...

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Welcome to the Biocene: How ‘natural capitalism’ can save America and the world 

News, Opinion

Something much deeper than the price of eggs was at work when voters re-elected President Trump last year.

Most Americans were unhappy with the country's direction; they still are. Last month, 59 percent said they were dissatisfied with "the way things are going in the United States."

It's not just that people have very different opinions about the day's pressing issues. We lack a national vision or mission that transcends our differences. No one has articulated a co...

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