Medicaid is a joint federal and state program that provides health care coverage to low-income individuals and families. It services over 79 million Americans.

When Gov. Greg Abbott signed House Bill 12 into law in May 2023, Texas became the 41st state to extend postpartum Medicaid to 12 months. It was a victory years in the making, after several sessions of ...

Trump’s pick for health secretary showed a poor understanding of a key part of the job.

Introducing work requirements for Medicaid recipients is something the GOP has suggested will be brought into action.

State Medicaid and Affordable Care Act programs have long struggled to connect with lower-income Americans to help them ...

President Donald Trump 's new appointee to head US Human and Health Services, Robert F. Kennedy, is likely to make some changes to Medicaid, his testimony to the Senate Finance Committee revealed ...

U.S. Rep. Dan Meuser and U.S. Rep. Rob Bresnahan on Wednesday said the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) guidance for enacting a pause in specific areas of federal funding would not apply to any ...

Karnik, federal policy director of the Guttmacher Institute, a research and policy nonprofit dedicated to advancing ...

It's a divide with major ramifications for the taxpayers, the country and for Trump, who has said he wants a “big, beautiful ...

Many are unclear on how sweeping the federal funding freeze is intended to be. Here are programs it could affect.

A federal judge late Tuesday temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s freeze on federal spending for grant and assistance programs, but only after a day of anxiety, growing controversy and ...