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Skyrocketing Medicaid costs were already threatening to overpower every other priority in state budgets before the pandemic. As COVID-19 spread, national Medicaid enrollment ballooned...

Most states now have approved Medicaid expansion. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Medicaid enrollment ballooned from 23 million to 95 million as eligibility requirements were relaxed...

“Expanding Medicaid to middle-class healthy individuals during the pandemic provided the one-way door single-payer activists had long been looking for.”

Dreamers is a term frequently used to refer to members of DACA, an Obama-era program  (The Center Square) – About 700,000 foreign nationals in the...

In a motion Friday, the Agency for Health Care Administration urged the court to resolve the case by upholding the rule FIRST ON THE DAILY...

The bill, which has at least 16 Republican and zero Democratic supporters, would come with significant appropriations (The Center Square) – While Medicaid expansion in...

“The expansion of food stamps, health insurance subsidies, and unemployment benefits, along with the relaxation or elimination of [Medicaid] work requirements, kept millions of people from returning to the workforce in 2020 and 2021,” wrote Mulligan and Antoni. “For these families, work may literally not pay.”

Medicaid, Food Stamp work requirements suspended during the COVID-19 Emergency will return in April. The official end of the COVID-19 emergency is near. That’s good news. It’s...

“The real agenda is radical egalitarian redistribution of income.”

The increase in spending between 2013 and 2019 in Medicaid expansion states was 5.9 percent but in states that chose not to expand, spending growth was nearly three times more at 22.7 percent.