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U.S. health insurance program for low-income people, funded jointly by federal and state governments and administered by states.
Nine states and D.C. expect over 281,000 lawfully present immigrants, refugees and asylees among them, to lose Medicaid in October. CBO's estimate of 100,000 more uninsured by 2034 is a net figure for years out, so the gap depends on how many find other insurance.
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Six Republican-led states will require provider proof of medical frailty when Medicaid work rules start in January, a year ahead of the federal schedule. The first cost lands on new applicants who cannot afford the doctor visit that proof requires.
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STAT reports lobbyists are laying groundwork to delay or unwind the cuts. The winnable version looks like schedule changes and rural side funds, not restored baseline funding.
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The $50 billion Congress attached to its Medicaid cuts is being spent on records systems, drones and workforce pilots. Averaged across its five years it puts out about a tenth of what the cuts take out each year.
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The GAO counted 12,346 Amazon workers on SNAP across eleven states, close to triple its 2020 finding, over a stretch in which the company's annual profit went from $11.6bn to $77.7bn. Labor's share of output is 52.8%.
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Semaglutide's approval starts above age 12 and tirzepatide's obesity approval at 18, but a published study and one Dallas hospital's own count both show children under 12 already taking these drugs, mostly for obesity and type 2 diabetes.
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A projection of $3.4 trillion over ten years averages about $340bn a year. The Congressional Budget Office's more than $1 trillion of offsetting program savings rests partly on Medicaid work requirements most states do not start until 2027.
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Scotland and Canada recorded declines in the same year, and the Commonwealth Fund's canvass of two dozen state health authorities found nobody willing to name a single cause, which leaves 2026 budgets ranking levers on plausibility.
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The BALANCE model offers Medicaid agencies most-favored-nation prices on obesity drugs if they also run fitness coaching and nutrition counselling, and one state budget office has so far judged that worth taking.
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A STAT opinion piece sets NIH's 13% award rate beside Medicaid's shift to twice-yearly renewals to argue both losses will arrive through documentation, though only the Medicaid half comes with a measured denominator.
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The state with the least employer coverage in the country lost the most marketplace members and one of the smallest shares of them. That combination is what insurers elsewhere price against in 2027.
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The CDC's new life table clears the pre-pandemic baseline by 0.2 years, with injury, cardiac, cancer and homicide deaths doing much of the work. The margin is thinner than one year of movement.
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Clinicians writing in STAT argue that eligibility systems keyed to an HIV diagnosis will read a cure as proof that need has ended. Roughly 300,000 long-term survivors are exposed.
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The August 18 announcement names no price, no structure and no closing date. For teams already wired into Truv or Truework APIs, that silence is the integration risk.
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Millionaires captured more than half of post-pandemic income growth while poverty hit a record for a third straight year, per The City Reporter. Demand and politics both narrow.
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A GAO count puts DoorDash, Lyft and Uber ahead of Walmart and McDonald's on workers drawing food aid. The durable number here is the ranking, not the sentiment survey attached to it.
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