New bill COVER, lead by Alabama Democrat Shomari Figures, is designed to reach people in states which refuse to extend ...

The Alabama Medicaid Agency will request $1.184 billion from the state for FY 2026, about $229 million more than its budget this year. “Most of it is related to health care inflation cost,” Alabama ...

Earlier Thursday, the Trump administration presented a plan to cut staffing worldwide for U.S. aid projects, leaving fewer ...

The National Treasury Employees Union president advised all federal workers not to accept the buyout offer, which she says is ...

In 2024, the median first-time homebuyer was 38 years old, up from age 35 the prior year, according to the National ...

The Biden administration scrapped federal authorization for Indiana's HIP work mandate in 2021 because it found withholding Medicaid benefits from otherwise eligible individuals did not lead to ...

Sen. Bill Cassidy, a Louisiana Republican, ended a three-hour confirmation hearing Thursday by telling Kennedy that he was ...

Furnas County Sheriff's deputies found a Holbrook man dead in a ditch in south-central Nebraska on Jan. 17. The deputies responded to a 911 call on Jan. 17 at about 1:15 p.m. from a sanitation ...

Idaho lawmakers are trying again to repeal Medicaid expansion, which would revoke health coverage for around 90,000 Idahoans. Voters in 2018 approved the expansion of Medicaid coverage to adults ...

The majority—nearly two-thirds of all nursing home residents—rely on Medicaid to foot the bill. But getting approved for Medicaid can be tricky, especially when it comes to the Medicaid Look-Back ...

While many Republican state lawmakers remain firmly against Medicaid expansion, some key leaders in holdout states are showing a willingness to reconsider. Public opinion, financial incentives, and ...