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April 28, 2025
A Reflection on the First 100 Days: We’re Prepared and More Determined than Ever
Elizabeth G. Taylor Medicaid Defense 2025
The first 100 days of President Trump's return to office have been as relentless and punishing as we anticipated and then some. The core of the Trump administration's agenda is cruelly simple: to dismantle public programs to enrich the powerful and punish the most underserved. His administration has deployed…
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February 25, 2025
Medicaid is Even Leaner as Accountability Improves
David Machledt Medicaid Defense 2025
Republicans have proposed budget cuts totaling at least $880 billion that would require massive structural changes to Medicaid. This major threat to health care access is not an easy to sell to the public. Medicaid is actually really popular, and it covers lots of voters at a very low…
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February 20, 2025
State-Level Legislation Increases Potential Harm from Federal “Optional” Work Requirement Proposals
Brit Vanneman and Jennifer Lav Disability, Medicaid Defense 2025, Uncategorized
Requirement Proposals Some Congressional Republicans are currently considering statutory changes to Medicaid to allow states to impose work requirements. As many others have noted, work requirements do not actually help people find and keep jobs – they just take away health care.Despite the serious problems with work requirements, these…
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January 28, 2025
Medicaid is Health Care for Nearly 80 Million Individuals and Families
Elizabeth G. Taylor Medicaid Defense 2025
Earlier this month, during his Senate Finance Committee confirmation hearing, Scott Bessent, now President Trump's Treasury secretary, evaded clear answers on proposed Medicaid cuts. Despite assurances that the President's agenda would not reduce health care programs, Bessent, like many in Trump's circle, refused to confirm that there would be…
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January 27, 2025
President Trump’s Day One Actions Threaten Medicaid and the ACA
Madeline Morcelle Abortion, Medicaid Defense 2025, Uncategorized
On the first day of his second Administration, President Trump issued numerous executive orders, including one that revoked a myriad of President Biden’s executive orders. These included several Biden-era orders related to implementation of the Medicaid Act and Affordable Care Act (ACA). President Trump instructed the Directors of the…
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January 21, 2025
Protecting Medicaid: Finding and Working with Allies
Wayne Turner Medicaid Defense 2025
Medicaid is squarely in the crosshairs of the incoming Trump administration and 119th Congress. With a simple majority vote, Republicans can make substantial changes to Medicaid using the budget reconciliation process. Past proposals again being discussed include radically restructuring Medicaid financing through block grants or per capita caps. Other…
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A Reflection on the First 100 Days: We’re Prepared and More Determined than Ever

Medicaid is Even Leaner as Accountability Improves

State-Level Legislation Increases Potential Harm from Federal “Optional” Work Requirement Proposals

Medicaid is Health Care for Nearly 80 Million Individuals and Families

President Trump’s Day One Actions Threaten Medicaid and the ACA

Protecting Medicaid: Finding and Working with Allies