President Donald Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBB) into law on July 4, 2025. Among other provisions, the bill raises the debt ceiling by $5 trillion annually and also makes a 15% cut ...
CHEROKEE, Iowa (KTIV) - Big changes are on the horizon for medical facilities across the nation following cuts to Medicare and Medicaid coverage contained in the “One Big Beautiful Bill.” “For us, ...
A Trump administration official told U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis and state Senate leader Phil Berger, during a June meeting, that the One Big Beautiful Bill would have significant impacts on their state’s ...
Older hospitals feel like rabbit warrens, with corridors and buildings seemingly connected at random. Our nation’s medical billing system is much the same. Over the decades, our insurance-based system ...
Lawmakers on both the federal and state levels have spent much of 2025 workshopping and debating changes and cuts to Medicaid, the nation’s public health care program for people with low incomes or ...
“Trump and Republicans in Congress want to leave Black families uninsured or burden them with more expensive bills, all so that billionaires and corporations can get a tax break,” said Chiquita Brooks ...
Jake Auchincloss is the representative for Massachusetts’ 4th Congressional District. MassHealth, the state’s Medicaid program, is experiencing what hospitals would call code gray — an assault on the ...
I recently read this story on a local news channel: “Blindsided: Some nursing homes across the country aggressively pursue friends and relatives for a loved one’s unpaid bill. Federal laws are ...
Medicaid provides comprehensive, low-cost health insurance to about 72 million people in the U.S., according to recent data. It’s also the nation’s largest public health insurance program, providing ...