Operation Deimos

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins argued that 34 million "able-bodied adults" who are at risk of losing their Medicaid benefits should be expected to take the jobs of migrants on farms. 

Though patients don’t rush through the doors of this emergency room anymore, an empty hospital in Williamston, North Carolina, offers an evocative illustration of why Republican Sen. Thom Tillis would buck his party leaders to vote down President Donald Trump’s signature domestic policy package.

Imagine learning that your grandmother’s nursing home is closing. The nearest one with room for her is a three-hour drive away. It doesn’t accept Medicaid, so if your grandmother is among the two-thirds of nursing home patients who are covered by Medicaid, she’s out of luck.

Pro-MAGA voices, such as Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), called for heads to roll in the Senate after some Medicaid cuts were stripped from President Donald Trump's so-called "One Big Beautiful Bill."

Republicans want to curtail taxes states have imposed to increase payments to hospitals.

During his first administration, President Donald Trump’s top health officials gave North Carolina permission to use Medicaid money for social services not traditionally covered by health insurance. 

Missouri U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley is warning fellow Republicans that efforts to cut Medicaid could backfire, turning against working-class voters and threatening the party's long-term political future.

House leader Mike Johnson has learned Medicaid is still a political third rail Republicans can’t easily touch to fund President Donald Trump’s tax cuts, but that doesn’t stop them from wanting to try.

President Donald Trump “hasn’t figured out how to lie about Medicaid cuts,” according to MSNBC Opinion Editor, James Downie.

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and his fellow Republicans have been eyeing massive cuts to Medicaid as part of a budget package that will also include renewing that 2017 tax-cut package passed under the first Trump administration.

Working-age adults who live in small towns and rural areas are more likely to be covered by Medicaid than their counterparts in cities, creating a dilemma for Republicans looking to make deep cuts to the health care program.

Medicaid accounts for a fifth of health care spending, per health nonprofit KFF.

BOSTON – Pharmaceutical company Biogen Inc. (Biogen), based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has agreed to pay $900 million to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by causing the submission of false claims to Medicare and Medicaid by paying kickbacks to physicians to induce them to prescribe Biogen drugs.

States and rural health advocacy groups are sounding the alarm that Congress’ slashing of Medicaid will devastate already financially fragile rural hospitals.

CNN's Dana Bash pressed Rep. Jason Smith (R-MO), chair of the House Ways and Means Committee, about the proposed Medicaid cuts in the mega spending bill being taken up by the House Wednesday. 

President Donald Trump and many of his loyalists are insisting that the draconian Medicaid cuts in his "big, beautiful bill" are strictly designed to combat "waste, fraud and abuse" and won't hurt Americans who genuinely need help paying for health care. But...

Senate Republicans are now considering a new addition to their "big, beautiful bill" of tax cuts for President Donald Trump, Politico reported: a bailout fund for hospitals at risk of shuttering due to the bill's Medicaid cuts.

White House adviser David Sacks acknowledged during his "All-In" podcast over the weekend that the GOP’s "Big, Beautiful Bill" will involve major reductions to Medicaid. His statement contradicts repeated assurances from President Donald Trump and other Make America Great Again (MAGA) allies...

Federal public health officials on Thursday announced an unprecedented drop last year in drug overdose deaths, which have plagued the United States for decades and had been rising steadily over the past several years.

On Sunday night, House Republicans released a key part of their budget bill that shows cuts and changes to Medicaid. Those cuts mean seniors who rely on Medicaid for nursing home care could lose their funding, The Washington Post reported in interviews with seniors. 

House Republicans late Sunday unveiled legislation that analysts said would rip Medicaid coverage from millions of low-income Americans — including children and people with disabilities — to help fund tax breaks that would disproportionately benefit the wealthy.

Congressional Republicans are still paralyzed over just what to do about Medicaid. According to Politico, House Republicans still want to cut the funding for Medicaid expansion passed in almost every state under the Affordable Care Act — but...

Republicans in Congress want to gut Medicaid, denying life-saving health care for regular families to cut taxes for billionaires.

Seeing patients at the free clinic is not just a welcome reminder that I can start piecing different information together as a medical student. It is also a reminder of what happens outside the exam room.

Millions of Americans are covered by the health care program. Before cuts are made, Congress should provide an estimate of how many of those Americans will die.