A list of options a conservative leader has circulated includes key elements of the failed attempt to repeal Obamacare, ...

Medicaid now accounts for most of what we ... Of course, not every safety-net dollar reaches someone below the poverty line. But the population in poverty gives us an idea of the level of need ...

Block grants would effectively mandate efficiency and accountability — and ensure that Medicaid fulfills its mission as a ...

We cannot expect health and life outcomes to improve while chipping away at the programs that provide insurance to 1 in 3 ...

A list of programs nationally provide new mothers, parents with no-strings-attached cash payments. See how NY wants to use ...

The legislation could impact as many as 200,000 Mississippians. Both Republican Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann, who presides over the Senate, and House Speaker Jason White, R-West, have ...

The Medicaid Expansion program, launched on Dec. 1, 2023 has over 600,000 people enrolled in the first year of implementation ...

To curb that poverty, one state bill would give a one-time payment of $1,800 to all new mothers on Medicaid ... income 50% below the federal poverty line, the state Comptroller’s Office reported ...

Medicaid expansion allows people making up ... qualify for benefits can get coverage only if they make 18% of the poverty line, or $4,648 for a family of three. Alabama is one of 10 states that ...

But Medicaid expansion — extending insurance coverage to anyone making 138% of the poverty line — could ease or solve many of those problems. It could insure over 100,000 Alabamians.