Revived Clinic Brings Hope to Sheridan, but Medicaid Cuts Threaten Its Future

Mike Lawler “Forced To Defend Massive Cuts to Medicaid Using Political Spin”

Lawler admitted that “indeed they’ve changed the meaning of ‘eligible’ for the purposes of Medicaid.” After months of repeatedly promising constituents that he wouldn’t support any legislation that included Medicaid cuts, fake moderate Mike Lawler is “being forced to defend cuts to Medicaid using political spin,” following his vote to enact the largest cuts to Medicaid in history. CNN backed Lawler into a corner during a recent TV appearance as…

Revived clinic brings hope to Sheridan, but Medicaid cuts threaten its future

Yamhill County is known for its wine country and pinot noir that sells for $50 a bottle. But in Sheridan, a small town in the county’s western reaches, plenty of people are struggling to pay for the basics. Every other Tuesday, people line up in their cars on Bridge Street as volunteers with the Grand Sheramina Food Bank pass out boxes packed with toasted oats cereal, fresh fruit and potatoes. On the Tuesday before the Fourth of July, in far awa…

Hawaiʻi Braces For Cuts That Could Strip Medicaid From Tens Of Thousands

Community health clinics offer a window into how the state might be impacted by hundreds of millions of dollars in cuts expected in the coming years.

What the media gets wrong about Medicaid ‘cuts’

By Jeremy Nighohossian InsideSources.com Headlines assert that the reforms Republicans recently passed amount to a trillion-dollar cut to Medicaid. The New York Times calls this the most significant cut to federal healthcare spending in history. Is that so? Maybe not. There are reasons to question whether cuts are actually happening, or if they are, who bears responsibility for the reduction. Of the $1 trillion in “cuts” to Medicaid, $167 billio…

Examining Medicaid Cuts - Matter of Fact with Soledad O'Brien

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Virginia Media Highlights Sears Dismissing Concerns about Medicaid Cuts, Telling Virginians Being Stripped of Healthcare “Don’t Panic” - Democratic Party of Virginia

Virginia Independent: Earle-Sears tells Virginians not to panic about Trump’s massive cuts to Medicaid VIRGINIA – New reporting from the Virginia Independent details Winsome Earle-Sears’ comments telling Virginians “don’t panic” as the Trump tax bill strips 322,00 Virginians of their health insurance and forces at least six rural hospitals to close. The Virginia Independent: Earle-Sears tells Virginians not to panic about Trump’s massive cuts to…