On the National Day of Action to Protect Medicaid, Democrats are rallying together to fight Donald Trump’s overwhelmingly unpopular plans to gut health care for millions of Americans, including kids, seniors, and folks in rural communities. Trump is putting Medicaid on the chopping block to give his billionaire backers more tax handouts — and his MAGA lackeys in Congress are gladly helping him. | Democrats
A Republican proposal for $880 billion in spending cuts drew hundreds of disabled New Jerseyans and their advocates to the Statehouse.| North Jersey Media Group
Medicaid is no longer just aiding the sick. It is a program for people who are able to work and the budget has ballooned as a result. We need to rein it in or watch our debt skyrocket.| Fox News
Kean signaled in code that he's on board with defunding the ACA Medicaid expansion. His two Republican colleagues in NJ's House delegation, in the same code, signaled that they would prefer not to.| xpostfactoid.substack.com
Amid renewed interest in Medicaid work requirements as part of a broader legislative package designed to significantly reduce federal Medicaid spending, KFF has updated its analysis of the work status and demographic characteristics of Medicaid enrollees with the latest data. Data show that, in 2023, 92% of Medicaid adults were either working full or part-time (64%), or were not working due to barriers to work such as caregiving responsibilities, illness or disability, or school attendance --...| KFF
