Medicaid will undergo significant changes
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The bill will stress a major funding stream schools rely on, leading to ripple effects that make it harder for schools to offer free meals.
The bill, ushered through Congress by Republican leadership and signed by Trump Friday, includes $4.5 trillion in tax cuts, slashes spending on Medicaid, and creates temporary tax deductions for overtime and tipped income. It includes $170 billion for immigrant detention and for new personnel for Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Governor Andy Beshear will appear on NBC's "Meet the Press" this Sunday to discuss issues important to Kentucky, including his opposition to a Republican-backed bill that would cut Medicaid benefits.
Dr. Mohammed Ahmad, 38, of Avon pleaded guilty Thursday in a Medicare fraud case involving fake medical equipment orders and telemedicine abuse. Prosecutors say he approved $267,000 in claims without examining patients.
We see this budget for what it is, an extremist road map that takes away what people rely on to survive,” U.S. Rep. Maxwell Frost said at a news conference at the Pan American Behavioral Health
Medicaid cuts in Trump’s tax bill will ‘devastate’ access to care in rural Pennsylvania, critics say
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Medicaid is the state's largest health insurer, covering a quarter of Michigan residents. Reform supporters say the changes will eliminate loopholes.
The Congressional Budget Office estimated that the House version of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act would reduce Medicaid enrollment and cause millions of people to become uninsured by 2034. It didn’t say that “5 million” of the people who are “going to lose insurance” would have “other insurance” so “they’re still insured,