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States Push Medicaid Work Rules, but Few Programs Help Enrollees Find Jobs

by Sam Whitehead

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Man affected by medicaid work requirements

Republicans in several states are pushing to implement Medicaid work requirements which will affect disabled enrollees.

The House Speaker’s Eyeing Big Cuts to Medicaid. In His Louisiana District, It’s a Lifeline.

by Phil Galewitz

April 7, 2025

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Manager of a regional health system in louisiana

It’s a lifeline to people in the district represented by House Speaker Mike Johnson. He wants big cuts to Medicaid anyway.

Native American health leaders say Medicaid cuts would decimate health programs

by Jazmin Orozo Rodriguez

March 19, 2025

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From above unrecognizable black man wearing protective mask on face of ethnic kid standing in room near window closed with curtain

With possible Medicaid cuts on the horizon, Native American community health centers brace for catastrophe.

Watch: The Dr. Oz Show Comes to Congress

by Serena Zehlius, Editor

March 17, 2025

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KFF Health’s ‘What the Health?’ podcast crew plays clips of the Dr Oz confirmation hearing to discuss.

Medicaid advocates say critics use loaded terms to gain edge in Congressional debate

by Phil Galewitz

March 8, 2025

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Mike johnson and party members giving a press conference at the capitol

In Washington’s debate over enacting steep funding cuts to Medicaid, words are a central battleground. Many Republican lawmakers and conservative policy officials who want to scale back the joint state-federal health program are using charged language to describe it. Language…