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Medicaid Work Reporting Requirements: Feds Forcing States to Spend Resources to Cover Fewer People
As discussed in our overview of H.R. 1, the budget reconciliation bill passed by Congress and signed by President Trump, the new law includes a harmful new work reporting requirement for Medicaid. The Congressional Budget Office estimates this work reporting requirement will result in a $326 billion cut in federal funding for states and lead…
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States Pursuing Medicaid Work Requirement Waivers Must Make Changes: How the OBB Changed the Landscape for Medicaid Work Requirements
The new budget reconciliation law (aka OBBB — the One Big Beautiful Bill) makes the largest Medicaid cut in history ($990 billion over ten years). It will likely take health insurance away from about 10 million people, and another 5 million will likely lose coverage because of other Congressional Marketplace policies. It will wreak utter…
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Supreme Court Reduces Rights to Women’s Health Care Because Congress Didn’t Use the Magic Words that Congress Didn’t Know About
Here we go again. Earlier this week, on June 26, 2025, the Supreme Court issued yet another dubious decision involving two of its favorite topics for judicial malpractice: women’s rights and access to the courts. In the case, known as Medina, the court ruled to allow South Carolina to exclude Planned Parenthood providers from the…
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Here’s What’s Really at Stake in the Fight for Medicaid Funding
The raging battle over Medicaid funding is really a fight about the soul of Medicaid and our progress as a society. The broader objective of the House legislation is clear – to reverse decades of progress and take us back to 1965, when health care was welfare, and many people simply were considered undeserving of…
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Factchecking The White House “Mythbuster” on Medicaid Cuts and Immigrants
On June 2, 2025, The White House posted a “Mythbuster” fact sheet in defense of the House-passed reconciliation bill. However, the sheet is full of inaccuracies and advances more myths than facts—too many to cover in just one blog. This blog will focus on one prominent false claim, namely that 1.4 million undocumented immigrants will…