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Children’s health services could see trims even under scaled-back Medicaid cuts
About half of the nation’s 72.8 million children are covered by Medicaid or the Children’s Health Insurance Program, known as ...
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities8dOpinion
Medicaid Cuts Would Reduce Access to Health Care for Entire Communities
The congressional Republican budget paves the way for deeply damaging changes to Medicaid that would reduce access to health ...
U.S. News & World Report3d
Medicaid 'Unwinding' Cost Kids Access To Asthma Inhalers, Other Chronic Disease Meds
Medicaid 'Unwinding' Cost Kids Access To Asthma Inhalers, Other Chronic Disease Meds By Dennis Thompson HealthDay ReporterMONDAY, May 12, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Children and young adults ...
The Times of Northwest Indiana2d
Medicaid access to out-of-state children's hospitals assured for two more years
Hal Slager, R-Schererville, to indefinitely continue a program that helps ensure Northwest Indiana kids and teens covered by Medicaid can access health care services at Chicago children's hospitals.
Proposed Medicaid cuts would have devastating impact on kids with special needs | Opinion
Medicaid cuts would mean lost access to needed care and critical therapies, plus delayed diagnoses and significant harm to ...
Congress: Medicaid saved my disabled daughter's life. Please don't cut it | Opinion
Without Medicaid, Maribeth Watson's daughter, born prematurely, may not have survived. Now Congress may cut the programs that ...
‘Children Will Die:’ Democrats Raise Alarm About GOP Efforts to Cut Medicaid
New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham issued a stark warning that if Republicans in Congress and the Trump White House ...
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities13dOpinion
House Republicans Won’t Let Go of Repealing ACA; Decimating Its Medicaid Expansion Would Harm Millions of Parents, Children, Disabled People
Taking coverage away from some or all of the 20 million people benefiting from expansion would roll back progress in the 40 ...
HealthDay on MSN2d
Medicaid 'Unwinding' Cost Kids Access To Asthma Inhalers, Other Chronic Disease Meds
Key TakeawaysMedicaid 'unwinding' left kids with chronic conditions without access to needed medicationsChildren and young ...
Austin American-Statesman10d
Proposed Medicaid cuts would have devastating impact on kids with special needs | Opinion
These words from a Texas parent capture the devastating impact losing access to Medicaid coverage had for their child with complex medical needs. Children make up 74% of Texas’s 3.8 million ...