During his campaign, President Donald Trump told supporters "I will not cut one penny from Social Security or Medicare." Trump has managed to keep those promises since returning to the White House, ...

A study by UC Berkeley School of Public Health researchers shows that personal income increased 9.6% for those who became newly eligible for Medicaid in states that expanded Medicaid in 2014.

Medicaid, the joint federal-state health insurance program that covers about one-in-five Americans, may be in for some of the biggest changes in its 60-year history. The tax, spending and policy bill ...

New federal rules will require more than 18 million Medicaid enrollees nationwide to show they’re working, volunteering, or going to school for 80 hours a month starting in 2027 to keep their ...

Republicans in Congress intend to cut about US$880 billion in federal health care spending. One of their primary targets is Medicaid. That government program covers 82 million Americans with health ...

When the White House budget office released a memo this week that instructed all federal agencies to cease spending on any financial assistance programs pending internal review, the fate of the nation ...

Nina Owcharenko Schaefer is well known as a champion of patient choice and robust competition in America’s health insurance markets. A number of practical, commonsense reforms can weed out fraud, ...

A Miller trust, or qualified income trust (QIT), is a legal arrangement that allows individuals who don’t meet Medicaid’s income limits to qualify for coverage of long-term care under Medicaid. With a ...

Medicaid, like all “means-tested” programs where eligibility is based on income and assets, requires extensive documentation to establish eligibility. Proof is required to verify identity, residence, ...