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Medicaid Cuts Grow Harsher as GOP Attempts to Ram Trump Agenda Through House Before Memorial Day
The full court press is on to pass the “One Big Beautiful Bill” with President Trump visiting the House Republican Caucus this morning to pressure competing factions to just say “yes” and pass the bill this week — before the Memorial Day recess and before anyone has time to untangle what is in the bill.…
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CCF Marks 20th Anniversary as Ominous Cuts to Medicaid Loom
The Center for Children and Families turned 20 on Monday! I marked this milestone as a guest on the NPR 1A program, explaining the role of Medicaid and Congressional proposals to cut it deeply. Many of the listeners needed no convincing that Medicaid was important, indeed life-sustaining for them and their families. One mother called…
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Medicaid Work Reporting Requirements Under Consideration by Congress Put People with Disabilities, Cancer, and Those Impacted by the Opioid Crisis at Risk
As Congress considers cutting Medicaid to finance President Trump’s legislative agenda, one of the proposals that appears to have a great deal of support from Republicans is the imposition of a punitive work reporting requirement as a condition of Medicaid eligibility. I have long held the view that this approach is deeply flawed for a…
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Voices from Ohio: The Harm of Medicaid Work Requirements
As Congress considers imposing a mandatory work reporting requirement (WRR) on adults in Medicaid as part of their drive to impose large federal cuts to Medicaid, Ohio is the first state during the second Trump Administration to request Section 1115 demonstration authority to impose a WRR on its ACA Medicaid expansion group. Ohioans are speaking…