This Ballot Measure Would Be a Big Win for Maine’s Elderly
Obencem/iStock Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Mainers will soon get the chance to continue their streak of progressive ballot initiatives. The Maine People’s Alliance, the political advocacy group behind last year’s Medicaid expansion victory, announced Friday that it has collected enough signatures to put a Universal Home Care measure on…
Study: Expanding Medicaid Means Patients Get Better Surgeries Sooner
Stephen J. Coddington/Tampa Bay Times/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Under the Affordable Care Act, Medicaid was expanded to include everyone who makes up to 138 percent of the federal poverty line. (In 2017, that’s $16,642 for an individual or $33,948 for a family of four.) In 2012, however, a Supreme Court ruling allowed…
Obamacare Was on the Ballot Yesterday. It Won Overwhelmingly.
Ralf Hirschberger/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. It turns out many Americans are big fans of Obamacare when they get a chance to vote on it. Voters in Oregon like Obamacare so much that they are willing to raise taxes to help pay for it. On Tuesday, Oregonians overwhelmingly approved new taxes on…
The GOP Wants to Slash Food Stamps. Here’s Why That’s a Stupid Idea.
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump and the GOP-controlled Congress have publicly flaunted their desire to slash food aid for the poor. The deficit-swelling tax cut package they passed in late 2017 will embolden their efforts later this year, when the twice-a-decade farm bill—which funds the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance…
Republicans Just Tried to Claim that Medicaid Caused the Opioid Epidemic. Surprise, Surprise—They’re Wrong.
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.)J. Scott Applewhite/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Republicans seem to have found a new culprit to blame for the opioid epidemic: Medicaid. “Every time a hard working American pays their taxes, they are inadvertently funding drug dealers with a new supply of high powered opioids that are poisoning…
Trump Administration Decides That The Key To Making You Healthier Is Taking Your Medicaid
Medical residents Wes Penn, left, and Cameron Collier, center, go over patient information with medical students in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in May 2016.Gerald Herbert/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Trump administration announced on Thursday that it will support work requirements for Medicaid beneficiaries for the first time in the…