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House Speaker Mike Johnson stands in the background of a press conference while a budget resolution bill is held up in front of him.

Medicaid Advocates Say Critics Use Loaded Terms To Gain Edge in Congressional Debate

By Phil Galewitz March 7, 2025 KFF Health News Original

As policymakers in Washington debate potentially steep funding cuts to Medicaid, Republicans are using terms such as “money laundering” and “discrimination” to make their case. Language experts and Medicaid advocates say their word choice is misleading and designed to sway the public against the popular program.

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GOP Takes Aim at Medicaid, Putting Enrollees and Providers at Risk

By Phil Galewitz February 21, 2025 KFF Health News Original

Congressional Republicans are pushing plans that could make deep cuts to Medicaid to finance President Donald Trump’s tax cuts and other priorities. At stake is coverage for millions of low-income Americans, as well as a huge revenue source for hospitals — and every state.

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Lavar, secar, inscribirse: cómo obtener Medicaid… en la lavandería

By Phil Galewitz February 5, 2025 KFF Health News Original

Trabajadores, muchos de los cuales son bilingües, visitan lavanderías para establecer relaciones, generar confianza y conectar a las personas con la asistencia del gobierno

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Trump’s Funding ‘Pause’ Throws States, Health Industry Into Chaos

By Phil Galewitz Updated January 29, 2025 Originally Published January 28, 2025 KFF Health News Original

A sweeping Trump administration order threw the nation’s health system into disarray Tuesday, as states and the health industry tried to make sense of what looked like a freeze on federal Medicaid funding.

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Schools Aren’t as Plugged In as They Should Be to Kids’ Diabetes Tech, Parents Say

By Phil Galewitz January 28, 2025 KFF Health News Original

With continuous glucose monitors, students with Type 1 diabetes no longer have to visit the school nurse for a finger prick. But some parents say it falls to them to keep an eye on blood sugar levels from home or work — even though they may not be able to quickly reach their child when something’s wrong.

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A young teen girl stands as she scans her diabetic patch on her arm with her phone. She is dressed casually and has a backpack on as she focuses on managing her diabetes.

Las escuelas no están conectadas como debieran a la tecnología para afrontar la diabetes infantil

By Phil Galewitz January 28, 2025 KFF Health News Original

En las escuelas, los maestros están atentos a las alarmas de los MCG de los teléfonos de los alumnos. Sin embargo, muchos dicen que no hay garantía de que un maestro pueda escucharlas.

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Trump’s Return Puts Medicaid on the Chopping Block

By Phil Galewitz January 13, 2025 KFF Health News Original

Republicans in Washington are working on plans to shrink Medicaid, the nearly $900-billion-a-year government health insurance program that covers 1 in 5 Americans.

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Cinco cambios críticos que puede sufrir Medicaid bajo Trump

By Phil Galewitz January 13, 2025 KFF Health News Original

Los republicanos en Washington afirman que planean utilizar recortes de financiamiento y cambios regulatorios para reducir drásticamente Medicaid, el programa de salud federal gerenciado por los estados

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Florida’s Canada Drug Importation Plan Has Yet to Launch

By Phil Galewitz December 10, 2024 KFF Health News Original

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) spent years complaining that the Biden administration was slow-walking federal approval of his plan to import lower-cost prescription drugs from Canada — a concept endorsed by Donald Trump in 2020 just before his first presidential term ended. But nearly a year since the Food and Drug Administration green-lit the state’s […]

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9 States Poised To End Coverage for Millions if Trump Cuts Medicaid Funding

By Phil Galewitz December 4, 2024 KFF Health News Original

About 3.7 million people are at immediate risk of losing health coverage should the federal government cut funding for Medicaid expansions, as some allies of President-elect Donald Trump have proposed. Coverage could be at risk in the 40 states that have expanded Medicaid.

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Si Trump recorta fondos, millones de personas en nueve estados podrían perder Medicaid

By Phil Galewitz December 4, 2024 KFF Health News Original

Los estados son Arizona, Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Montana, New Hampshire, Carolina del Norte, Utah y Virginia.

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$50B Rural Health ‘Slush Fund’ Faces Questions, Skepticism

By Sarah Jane Tribble July 21, 2025 KFF Health News Original

Lawmakers added a $50 billion program for rural health to President Donald Trump’s massive tax and spending package with promises it would help plug the hole left by Medicaid cuts. Rural hospital and clinic leaders worry the infusion won’t reach the right places.

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Florida Gov. DeSantis’ Canadian Drug Import Plan Goes Nowhere After FDA Approval

By Phil Galewitz Updated November 22, 2024 Originally Published November 21, 2024 KFF Health News Original

Florida sued the FDA over what it said was a “reckless delay” in approving its drug importation plan. Now, nearly a year after the FDA gave the state the green light, the program has yet to begin.

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El plan del gobernador de Florida para importar medicamentos más baratos de Canadá sigue en la nada

By Phil Galewitz November 21, 2024 KFF Health News Original

Florida solicitó crear un programa de importación en noviembre de 2020, pocos meses después que la administración Trump concediera esta opción a los estados.

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In Vermont, Where Almost Everyone Has Insurance, Many Can’t Find or Afford Care

By Phil Galewitz November 6, 2024 KFF Health News Original

Vermont has one of the lowest uninsured rates in the U.S., even though its residents pay some of the highest health insurance costs. Still, most of its hospitals are losing money and patients often face long waits for care.

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Amid Medicaid ‘Unwinding,’ Many States Wind Up Expanding

By Phil Galewitz October 2, 2024 KFF Health News Original

It was expected that the past year and a half would be a fraught time for Medicaid, the workhorse of the nation’s health system, which covers more people than any other government health insurance program. In April 2023, states resumed screening people for Medicaid eligibility and terminating coverage for those they said no longer qualified […]

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US Uninsured Rate Was Stable in 2023, Even as States’ Medicaid Purge Began

By Phil Galewitz September 10, 2024 KFF Health News Original

About 8% of Americans lacked health insurance in 2023, the Census Bureau announced. But its report doesn’t capture the effect of states winnowing their Medicaid rolls by millions of people since the pandemic emergency ended.

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La tasa de personas sin seguro médico se mantiene estable, a pesar de la purga de Medicaid

By Phil Galewitz September 10, 2024 KFF Health News Original

Aproximadamente el 8% de los estadounidenses no tuvieron cobertura en 2023, un aumento estadísticamente insignificante de solo 0.1 puntos porcentuales con respecto al año anterior.

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En medio de las expulsiones de Medicaid, muchos estados deciden expandirlo

By Phil Galewitz August 20, 2024 KFF Health News Original

Esta ampliación de las afiliaciones en estos estados se producen en medio de la mayor conmoción en las casi seis décadas de historia del programa.

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Amid Medicaid ‘Unwinding,’ Many States Wind Up Expanding

By Phil Galewitz Updated September 24, 2024 Originally Published August 16, 2024 KFF Health News Original

The end of pandemic-era Medicaid coverage protections coincided with changes in more than a dozen states to expand coverage for lower-income people, including children, pregnant women, and the incarcerated.

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