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Senate megabill would explode debt and kick 11.8 million off Medicaid: ‘Our fiscal house is basically on fire’
Over a decade, the bill would add at least $3.3 trillion to the national debt, according to the Congressional Budget Office ...
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Senate Reconciliation Amendment Would Cut Hundreds of Billions More From State Medicaid Funding, Putting Coverage at Risk for Millions
Late Saturday the Senate voted to proceed to debate on the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which is the opposite of beautiful: ...
Senate wraps up 16-hour reading of Trump bill, moves to debate
The Senate clerks completed the full reading of the Senate GOP’s massive tax and spending bill on Sunday afternoon, allowing ...
With Senate vote looming, studies show 200,000 Kentuckians could lose Medicaid coverage
Newland and her niece are among the estimated 200,000 Kentuckians that Louisville health professionals and Kentucky policy ...
More than 300 rural hospitals face immediate closure threat as Senate Medicaid cuts loom
More than 300 rural hospitals are at immediate risk of closing, and proposed Senate Medicaid cuts could push even more to the ...
Louisiana hospitals press Johnson over megabill Medicaid cut proposals
As the “big, beautiful bill” teeters towards passage in the Senate, every major health system in Louisiana sent a letter ...
Nunn, Miller-Meeks walk a tightrope with letter opposing Senate's deeper Medicaid cuts
The two Republicans voted for Medicaid cuts in the "Big Beautiful Bill" but signed onto a letter opposing the Senate’s ...
Senate tax writers float $15 billion rural fund to appease ‘Medicaid moderates’
Senate tax writers have offered to set aside $15 billion for rural hospitals as part of reconciliation, a late addition to ...