Griffith Discusses Proposed Spending Cuts, Medicaid Impacts

Sen. Hickenlooper visits Sunrise Community Health to discuss Medicaid cuts

If lawmakers in the U.S. Senate vote to pass new Medicaid requirements recently approved by the House, Sunrise Community Health CEO Mitzi Moran estimates about a quarter of patients in the nonprofit health care system could lose coverage. “Seven thousand to 14,000 of our patients could fall off Medicaid as a result of these changes,” Moran told U.S. Sen. John Hickenlooper on Wednesday. “That’s disastrous for them. While they could still come to …

Members of Iowa’s congressional delegation double down on Medicaid cuts in federal budget

A week after U.S. House Republicans passed President Donald Trump’s budget priorities, members of Iowa’s congressional delegation are doubling down on their support for it, including reductions to Medicaid spending.

Griffith discusses proposed spending cuts, Medicaid impacts

U.S. Rep. Morgan Griffith this week discussed cuts proposed through work by the Department of Government Efficiency and aspects of the budget bill related to health care, during a visit to the Twin City.

Exploring the potential impact of Medicaid cuts in Trump's big budget bill

As Republicans work to advance a massive bill containing much of President Trump’s domestic agenda, one of the central flashpoints is its potential cuts to Medicaid. Geoff Bennett discussed the impact on healthcare access for millions of lower-income Americans, the elderly and people with disabilities with Jennifer Tolbert, deputy director of the Program on Medicaid and the Uninsured at KFF.

Warren, Markey, Healey warn of Medicaid cuts

BOSTON (WWLP) - Massachusetts' top leadership on the state and federal levels came together to denounce Medicaid cuts and call for action. Following the passage of President Trump's so-called "big, beautiful bill" in the U.S. House, which guts Medicaid funding, Governor Healey and Senators Warren and Markey had a message for Massachusetts residents: if these cuts go forward, people will die. Healey announces business regulation reductions …

For Those Facing Addiction, Medicaid Is a Lifeline

The fluorescent lights of the intake office hummed on Thanksgiving Eve in 2014, a stark contrast to the chaotic darkness I’d been living in. I was terrified, exhausted, and sick of myself. My addiction had stripped away everything: my career, my home, my dignity. I was at the absolute bottom, a place where the idea of work was not just impossible, but utterly irrelevant. My only focus was survival, and that meant finding a way out of the hell of…