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Biden Urged to Withdraw All Medicaid Work Requirements Approved by Trump

Cara Stewart, a legal advocate opposing Medicaid work requirements, comforts Pauline Creech in Covington, Kentucky on January 15, 2018. Creech is concerned that, between her disability and her frequent doctor's appointments for cancer treatments, she won't be able to meet the work requirement of 80 hours per month. (Photo: Carolyn Van Houten/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Applause as Biden Plans to Rescind Medicaid Work Requirements, Targeting One of Most 'Cruel' Policies of Trump Era

Jake Johnson, staff writer

"We celebrate this win—this win that we made happen—even while mourning the loss of every person who relied on Medicaid and didn't survive the calamity of Trump's disastrous administration."

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As Pandemic Rages, Trump Admin. Approves Tennessee's "Reckless" Plan to Slash Medicaid

Andrea Germanos, staff writer

Seema Verma, administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, speaks as President Donald Trump listens during an event on lowering prescription drug prices on November 20, 2020, in the Brady Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, D.C.

The eleventh-hour safety net attack is being met with outrage from advocates of...

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'A Profoundly Troubling Pick': Progressives Slam Biden Choice of Gov. Raimondo for Commerce Chief

Andrea Germanos, staff writer

Rhode Island's Democratic Gov. Gina Raimondo speaks at a press conference in Providence, Rhode Island on December 3, 2020.

"Raimondo has a history of supporting cuts to public assistance programs,...

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Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) delivers an address on threats to American democracy at George Washington University on September 24, 2020 in Washington, DC. Sanders cited "the unprecedented and dangerous moment we are in right now" given U.S. President Donald Trump's "unique threats to our democracy." (Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images)

'The Real Looting in America Is the Walton Family': GAO Report Details How Taxpayers Subsidize Cruel Low Wages of Corporate Giants

Covid-19 'Has Not Left Rural America': Healthcare Advocates Urge Congress to Save Small Hospitals as Pandemic Loans Come Due

People of Missouri Accomplish What Its GOP Lawmakers Refused to Do for Nearly 10 Years: Approve Medicaid Expansion

Ocasio-Cortez, NY State Progressives Call on Cuomo to Pass Billionaires' Tax to Support Immigrants Left Out of Covid-19 Relief

Pro-choice activists supporting legal access to abortion protest during a demonstration outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., March 4, 2020. (Photo: Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)

'Enough Is Enough': 44 Groups Slam House Democrats for Including Hyde Amendment in Spending Bill

'The People Have Spoken': Thwarting GOP Push for Cuts, Oklahoma Voters Approve Medicaid Expansion

'A Travesty': Trump Restricting Covid-19 Relief Funds From Hospitals Serving Nation's Poorest

Health workers greet people as they arrive in cars at a mobile Covid-19 testing site at the Westside Community Center in the Goldsboro neighborhood of Sanford, Florida on April 23, 2020.

As Millions Stripped of Health Coverage Amid Covid-19, House Dems Unveil Bill for Emergency Expansion of Medicare and Medicaid

Cruelty 'Off the Charts' as Trump Blocks States From Expanding Medicaid in Response to Coronavirus

Federal Appeals Court Strikes Down Trump's 'Work-or-Die' Medicaid Requirements in Arkansas

'Code for Massive Cuts': Audio Shows GOP Sen. Joni Ernst Telling Donors She Wants 'Changes' to Medicare, Medicaid

Sanders Says GOP Budget Chair Won't Hold Hearing on Trump Plan Because It Would Expose President as 'Fraud That He Is'

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Senator Bernie Sanders

Sanders-Commissioned CBO Report Finds Medicare Part D Pays Nearly Three Times More than Medicaid for Prescription Drugs

Senator Bernie Sanders

Taxpayers Subsidize Poverty Wages at Walmart, McDonald's, Other Large Corporations, GAO Finds

Committee to Protect Medicare

Docs Urge Trump to Reverse Medicaid Cuts, Applaud U.S. House for Voting to Protect Healthcare

Center for Community Change

Trump’s New Attack on Medicaid Could Harm Millions

Public Citizen

New Program Would Allow States to Divert Medicaid Funds

Families USA

Trump Administration’s Block Grant Guidance Targets Cuts to Medicaid Again And Hurts Families and States

Views

Maggie Mills

A Public Option Won’t Save Us. The Sick and Disabled Need Medicare-for-All

Rev Dr Liz Theoharis, Nijmie Dzurinko

A New Nonviolent Medicaid Army Is on the March

Robert Greenstein

Counting the Many Ways the GOP Senate Covid-19 Relief Plan Would Fail Struggling Families and the Economy

Richard Eskow

Jerry Brown: Zen and the Art of Pandemic Response

Diane Archer

In Fighting the Coronavirus Pandemic in the US, Nothing Beats Traditional Medicare

Don Wiener, Arn Pearson

Despite Coronavirus Threat, Americans for Prosperity Still Leads Fight Against Medicaid Expansion

Dorian Warren

Organizers Won't Let Trump Dismantle Medicaid

Mike Ervin

The GOP and the Zombie Medicaid Block Grants

Tim Butterworth

'Socialism' Made America Great

Max Richtman

Don’t Believe Misleading Coverage of Social Security Trustees’ Report