MEDICAID CUT PUSHBACK — Patient advocacy groups and health care workers are ramping up pressure on Republican lawmakers to steer clear of massive cuts to Medicaid that GOP leadership is proposing.

The proposed House budget includes conservative social policies that target LGBTQ rights and diversity programs.

In a letter to Senate Majority Leader John Thune, hundreds of groups said the potential cuts would “shred our nation’s social ...

Millions have been spent on ads, and the healthcare sector is lobbying Republicans hard to spare hospitals and patients from ...

The American Medical Association and the American Health Care Association have been largely silent about potential Medicaid ...

Republican proposals to slash funding to Medicaid and other federal programs are putting ... and in Lawler’s case, ability to advocate for statewide issues. “It boils down to how much influence do ...

Kelly Hall, executive director of the Fairness Project, a union-back advocacy group ... as an example of a Republican who has been forced to support Medicaid expansion over time.

There’s just no way to do those cuts in Alabama without significantly harming children, seniors, and people with disabilities." ...

Hundreds of advocacy groups are calling on a key Republican lawmaker to reject potential cuts to Medicaid, saying reducing spending on the insurance program would “shred our nation’s social ...

Other advocacy organizations who work with these ... don’t speak out against the GOP’s plans to cut health care, Republican lawmakers are going to assume those organizations are on board ...