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PLANNING AHEAD: Paul Ryan and the history of Medicaid block grant proposals

House Republicans passed a budget resolution in February that requires cuts of at least $880 billion to programs like Medicaid over the next decade, as reported by House Republicans in Congress.
Medicaid serves over 13 million women of reproductive age, providing essential health care services, according to the National Partnership for Women & Families.
Medicaid covers about 41% of all births in the U.S., with higher percentages for Black and Hispanic women, based on data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Deputy Peng Danbing advocates for better medical resource sharing and has initiated efforts to establish a new hospital in Bijie to address healthcare gaps.

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PLANNING AHEAD: Paul Ryan and the history of Medicaid block grant proposals

On Jan. 3, 1999 Paul Ryan was sworn in as member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Wisconsin’s first district. Twenty years later, on Jan. 3, 2019 he left office to return to private life. In the intervening time in his public life he served as the 54th Speaker of the House, for four years chaired the House Budget Committee from 2011 to 2015, and ran for vice president on the Republican party ticket with Mitt Romney against Barack Obama …

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U.S. Rep. Gabe Amo speaks at a press event at Women & Infants Hospital in Providence, on March, 10, 2025. Seated at left are U.S. Rep. Seth Magaziner and Dr. Jill L. Maron, the hospital's pediatrician-in-chief. (Photo by Alexander Castro/Rhode Island Current) Most of Rhode Island’s babies enter the world at Women & Infants Hospital. Every year, the Providence hospital delivers about 85% of the children born in the Ocean State — a vast sample tha…

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