For Maria Paredez, the slashing of Medicaid funding is no political football, or some abstract argument emanating from Republicans in Congress about the size of government. It hits her where she lives: a small house in a small town in Tulare County,

California would scale back state Medicaid coverage for immigrants without legal status, eliminate coverage for certain weight loss drugs and use money from a key climate program to help fund state fire response under a $322-billion budget proposal announced Wednesday by Gov.

There are still many unknowns about what cuts, if any, could happen to Medi-Cal, which covers roughly 15 million people in the state.

While healthcare workers would make up a majority of job losses, industries that rely on the healthcare industry, including restaurants and retail stores, would also face significant job losses.

Congressional Republicans’ proposed Medicaid work reporting requirements could strip coverage from hundreds of thousands of children, cost up to 449,000 jobs, and lead to more than 15,400 avoidable deaths each year.

As well as California, which would experience an estimated 18-percent drop in federal Medicaid assistance, other states would need to make up significant shortfalls in funding over the next ten years.

As Congress discusses possible cuts behind closed doors, the medical community strives to connect dollars to services

The history of Medi-Cal, California’s Medicaid program and the largest and most expansive such program in the country, provides this crucial background. It shows how Medicaid is the byproduct of ...

Proposed Medicaid cuts in the Republican budget proposal hold significant implications for health care access and coverage.

MFN reinforces the worst incentives in 340B, shifts costs to patients and employers, and threatens the long-term health of both public programs and private enterprise.

Some providers may need to reduce services, lay off staff or close their doors if Congress enacts major cuts to the safety-net insurance program, experts say.

Imagine if you told your kid they could have dessert, but only if they ate all of their vegetables. Then, as you looked away, they quietly slipped their spinach to the dog before reaching out to receive dessert. Here you have what California is doing with Medicaid funding, and the whole country is paying for it.