Opioid Cash Grab: As Federal Funding Dries Up, States Turn to Settlement Money
At a recent Nevada legislative committee hearing, lawmakers faced off with members of the governor’s administration over how to fill...
Health Care
Watch: What Is Medicaid, Again?
Republicans in Congress have suggested big cuts to Medicaid. But what exactly is it? Medicaid, the state-federal health insurance program...
Montana’s Medicaid Expansion Conundrum
HELENA, Mont. — Despite concerns about what Congress and the Trump administration might have planned for Medicaid, Montana’s Republican-led legislature...
Can Medicaid’s Popularity Shield It From the Budget Ax?
Congressional lawmakers are facing tricky arithmetic as they hammer out a budget plan to finance President Donald Trump’s agenda. Republicans...
Los republicanos están considerando recortes a Medicaid. De nuevo, ¿qué es Medicaid?
En enero, durante una audiencia en el Congreso en su camino a convertirse en secretario del Departamento de Salud y...
Republicans Are Eyeing Cuts to Medicaid. What’s Medicaid, Again?
In January, during a congressional hearing on his way to becoming secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services,...
Deny and Delay? California Seeks Penalties for Insurers That Repeatedly Get It Wrong
When Colleen Henderson’s 3-year-old daughter complained of pain while using the bathroom, doctors brushed it off as a urinary tract...
Iowa Medicaid Sends $4M Bills to Two Families Grieving Deaths of Loved Ones With Disabilities
Collection agents for the state of Iowa have sent letters seeking millions of dollars from the estates of at least...
Pain Clinics Made Millions From ‘Unnecessary’ Injections Into ‘Human Pin Cushions’
McMINNVILLE, Tenn. — Each month, Michelle Shaw went to a pain clinic to get the shots that made her back...
A Dose of Love: The Winning Health Policy Valentines
Nothing sweeps us off our feet like a health policy valentine. Readers showed their love this season, writing poetic lines...
