Medicaid is the government program that is supposed to help the poor afford health care. Its cost to taxpayers has skyrocketed in the last few years, consuming more than 12% of federal tax revenue ...

Changes to Medicaid and SNAP will push vulnerable people off the rolls, and they will lose services because they can’t keep ...

WASHINGTON — A fierce debate about the future of Medicaid is currently underway in Congress, as 80 million Americans who rely on the program are hearing mixed messages from Washington.

Although President Donald Trump promised to “love and cherish” Medicaid, Republicans in Congress announced federal budget proposals that could dramatically curtail the program.

However, the math presents a significant challenge. The Congressional Budget Office's recent letter indicates, "Outlays other than for Medicaid and CHIP total $381 billion over the 10-year period." ...

They assert that Medicaid, a state-federal program launched in 1966 that today covers 1 in 4 Americans, is a broken system that doesn’t improve health, despite dozens of studies to the contrary.

In Washington’s debate over enacting steep funding cuts to Medicaid, words are a central battleground. Many Republican lawmakers and conservative policy officials who want to scale back the ...

The expansion of Medicaid has saved more than 27,000 lives since 2010, according to the most definitive study yet on the program’s health effects.

These cuts will impact every New Yorker, regardless of the kind of insurance they have or their immigration status.