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US plans Medicare, Medicaid coverage for weight-loss drugs, Washington Post reports
The Trump administration is planning an experiment to cover weight-loss drugs under Medicare and Medicaid, the Washington ...
Medicare, Medicaid plans to experiment with covering weight loss drugs
The Trump administration is planning an experiment to cover weight loss drugs under Medicare and Medicaid, potentially ...
NC Congressman: Our country needed the Medicaid reform the Big Beautiful Bill provided | Opinion
Democrats shamelessly attacked Republicans as soulless miscreants who wish to strip access to health care for millions of ...
Iowa names new Medicaid director as federal work requirements, eligibility changes kick in
Lee Grossman, the former director of Wyoming's Medicaid program, will take over Iowa Medicaid in September as its new ...
Medicaid name changes confuse the public: What it means for your health insurance coverage
Advocates say many consumers might not be aware they are on Medicaid due to the program's frequent name changes.
Why the G.O.P. Thinks You Should Have to Work for Your Health Care
Like many Americans, Republicans believe that insurance should be tied to employment — and increasingly they don’t think it’s ...
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NJ Republican says he saved $1B hospital program. Now it will lose $800 million.
Rep. Jeff Van Drew has touted how he worked behind the scenes with Trump so that NJ hospitals weren’t “left behind.” ...
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Medicaid work rule is bureaucratic dysfunction | Ben Ritz
Arkansas pioneered the first state-level work requirement for Medicaid beneficiaries in 2018, which lasted for less than a year before it was halted by a court order. Adults betwe ...
Family caregivers worry over planned Medicaid cuts' impact
About 63 million Americans, or a quarter of adults over 18, take care of an older or disabled person at home, and many rely ...
Medicaid cuts could hit Tampa Bay hospitals hard
Medicaid cuts proposed in Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” could destabilize Tampa Bay’s health care backbone — and with ...
Trump administration to pilot coverage of weight‑loss drugs under Medicare and Medicaid, Washington Post reports
The Trump administration is planning an experiment to cover weight-loss drugs under Medicare and Medicaid, the Washington Post reported on Friday.
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Cutting Medicaid Funding Isn't the Only Worrisome Change to the Program
Despite the late Justice Louis Brandeis's famous praise of the American political system for helping courageous states serve as "laboratories of democracy," the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ...