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*This piece initially appeared on the HuffPost.The deal appears set for a massive tax give-away to corporations and the super wealthy. News reports are that the Senate and House have agreed that their deficit-busting tax bill will be ready to send to Donald Trump next week. The president, in…

(Chart updated January 26, 2018 and reflects most recent approvals in Kentucky. An updated chart can be downloaded here)Medicaid operates as a federal-state partnership: the federal government provides states with generous funding, but states must adhere to the requirements of the federal Medicaid statute and regulations.Now that Congress has…

Senate Republicans decided this week to wade back into the health care debate by including a repeal of the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate in their tax cut bill. As noted in a previous blog, this bill, as well as the House bill, creates a massive give-away to the…

Medicaid is having a moment. Over the past twelve months, the 52-year-old health care program for low-income Americans has survived numerous existential threats in Congress and emerged vindicated. In July, and again in September, pundits and activists hailed the defeat of Senate bills to restructure Medicaid funding (and repeal…

Republicans in the House and Senate (with the loud backing of President Trump) are rushing "tax reform" through Congress in a most disengenous and crass manner. The Senate and House tax measures would not reform anything. Indeed both bills would cause the federal budget deficit to soar, while corporate…