Will Congress' budget cuts affect Medicaid? Here's why the stakes are so high for Louisiana.
The stakes are particularly high for Louisiana, which has one of the highest per-capita percentages of residents on Medicaid — more than a third of them. The program pays for health care for pregnant women, children, elderly, disabled, and working adults who rely on the state-federal healthcare insurance.
How Medicaid cuts would affect Florida
A government health care program in Florida that covers 4.2 million vulnerable people is facing the prospect of an overhaul under the House’s plans for implementing President DONALD TRUMP’s agenda. The budget resolution House Republicans passed Tuesday night directs the Energy and Commerce Committee to cut $880 billion over a decade from Medicaid and other similar programs.
Christina Martin, an advocacy leader for Louisiana Developmental Disability Council's Advocacy Network, relies on Medicaid ...
Every time a baby is born in Louisiana, where Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson handily won reelection last year, there’s ...
Ahead of the scheduled vote today, critics of the budget have warned that should the budget get approved, it would result in ...
Similarly, the Louisiana Department of Health misreported federal Medicaid expenditures, leading to $18.3 million in questioned costs. This includes duplicate reporting of a $16.6 million ...
An investigation revealed that Community Health allegedly created a scheme to defraud the Medicaid program by offering ...
The Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit reversed a ruling by Matthew Kacsmaryk and found that an anti abortion group ...
Louisiana is one of 17 states in a lawsuit involving Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act. Some families worry this could ...
More than 40 percent of the population there relies on Medicaid, the public health insurance plan for low-income Americans. In eastern Louisiana, where Representative Julia Letlow, a Republican ...
In one way, Tuesday night was a major victory for House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana ... political heartache for Republicans. Because: Medicaid. As the vote was succeeding, scores of ...
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