Patients seeking mental health care are more likely to be on Medicaid than patients in more profitable areas of care,…
Tag: health insurance
Trump HHS eliminates office that sets poverty levels tied to benefits for at least 80 million people
By Arthur Allen, California Healthline President Donald Trump’s firings at the Department of Health and Human Services included the entire office…
Tax time triggers fraud alarms for some Obamacare enrollees
Because of past fraud by rogue brokers, some Affordable Care Act policyholders may get an unexpected tax bill this season.…
Trump’s DEI undoing undermines accommodations for disabled people
By Stephanie Armour, California Healthline For years, White House press conferences included sign language interpreters for the deaf. No longer. Interpreters…
Hit hard by opioid crisis, Black patients further hurt by barriers to care
By Melba Newsome, California Healthline CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Purple flags, representing the nearly 300 Mecklenburg County residents who died of…
GOP lawmakers commit to big spending cuts, putting Medicaid under a spotlight – but trimming the low-income health insurance program would be hard
By Paul Shafer, Boston University and Nicole Huberfeld, Boston UniversityEfforts by Republicans in Congress to make steep spending cuts have…
Cutting Medicaid and federal programs are among 4 key Trump administration policy changes that could make life harder for disabled people
By Matthew Borus, Binghamton University, State University of New York While policy debates on immigration, abortion and other issues took…
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,…
Black Americans still suffer worse health. Here’s why there’s so little progress.
By Fred Clasen-Kelly and Renuka Rayasam, California Healthline October 28, 2024 KINGSTREE, S.C. — One morning in late April, a…
Americans with HIV are living longer. Federal spending isn’t keeping up.
By Sam Whitehead, California Healthline June 17, 2024 DECATUR, Ga. — Malcolm Reid recently marked the anniversary of his HIV…
