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The fate of Medicaid work requirements rests— for now— with U.S. District Court Judge James E. Boasberg. The judge heard arguments on June 15 in a Washington, D.C. courtroom packed to capacity with health care advocates, lawyers, scholars and reporters. The case at hand, Stewart v. Azar, was the legal…

Sixty-seven percent of consumers believe that the top health care priority should be to lower out-of-pocket costs, instead of cutting benefits and consumer protections. Yet the Trump administration continues to undermine the progress made by the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in ensuring that people have access to basic health…

For people living at or near the federal poverty line, Medicaid coverage can literally mean the difference between living a long, healthy, and productive life; or suffering with an untreated, painful, and potentially deadly medical condition. Consider Vickie Goldstein, a Florida Medicaid beneficiary who was diagnosed with hepatitis C—a…