Medicaid

Healthcare Takes Center Stage In Shutdown

October 5, 2025 Natalia Marques, People's Dispatch. Educate! Democrats, Government Shutdown, Health Care, Medicaid

The US government shut down at midnight on October 1 after Congress failed to approve new spending bills, forcing federal agencies nationwide to halt or scale back operations. At the heart of the shutdown is a standoff between Republican and Democratic Party politicians over healthcare. Over the summer, Republican lawmakers passed Donald Trump’s sweeping “Big Beautiful Bill” that makes deep cuts to public healthcare. Democrats argue that the Republican budget plan would weaken programs like Medicaid, the nation’s largest public health insurance program which covers over 70 million people. Democratic Party lawmakers demanded that protections for these programs be locked into a short-term spending bill, and when Republicans failed to deliver, lawmakers were unable to pass a funding bill to avoid a shutdown.

Medicaid Cuts Will Devastate People With Disabilities

August 18, 2025 Karina Smith, Inequality.org. Educate! Austerity, Disability Rights, Health Care, Medicaid, Trump Administration

Two months ago, Sloan Meek – a disability rights advocate with cerebral palsy – took the stage at a rally protesting the Medicaid cuts in Trump’s so-called “Big Beautiful Bill.” Meek warned how $1 trillion dollars in Medicaid cuts would have life-threatening consequences for people with disabilities. “My whole life – not just my healthcare – is supported by Medicaid. The way I move around in the world. The way I communicate. The people who help me do all the things I want to do in my life,” Meek said. “Without Medicaid support, I will be forced into a nursing home to spend the rest of my life in a hospital bed.” The Republican budget is a “death threat” to people with disabilities, Meek said.

Health-Care Workers Mobilize Against Massive Medicaid Cuts

July 1, 2025 Steve Wishnia, Work-Bites. Resist! Congress, Health Care, Healthcare workers, Medicaid, New York (NY)

“Medicaid! “Saves Lives!” health-care workers chanted in call-and- response outside New York-Presbyterian Hospital in Washington Heights June 23. The overhead passageway between two buildings provided a bit of shade but no protection from the 93-degree heat. “Keep the hospitals open,” called out a woman with “Healthcare Hero” on the back of her shirt, despite the oppressive temps. The rally, a rotating cast of dozens of people in purple 1199SEIU T-shirts, maroon scrubs, and navy-blue mechanics’ gear, and environmental-services workers in sky-blue hair coverings, was one of 11 street actions the union organized in New York City, Long Island, and the Hudson Valley to protest congressional plans to cut close to $1 trillion from Medicaid in next year’s federal budget.

Congress Is Pushing For A Medicaid Work Requirement

June 26, 2025 Margaret Coker, ProPublica. Educate! Congress, Georgia, Health Care, Medicaid

Congressional Republicans, looking for ways to offset their proposed tax cuts, are seeking to mandate that millions of Americans work in order to receive federally subsidized health insurance. The GOP tax and budget bill passed the House in May, and Senate Republicans are working feverishly to advance their draft of federal spending cuts in the coming days. Georgia, the only state with a Medicaid work mandate, started experimenting with the requirement on July 1, 2023. As the Medicaid program’s two-year anniversary approaches, Georgia has enrolled just a fraction of those eligible, a result health policy researchers largely attribute to bureaucratic hurdles in the state’s work verification system. As of May 2025, approximately 7,500 of the nearly 250,000 eligible Georgians were enrolled, even though state statistics show 64% of that group is working.

After National Day Of Action For Single Payer; Best Defense Is A Good Offense

June 25, 2025 Judy Albert, Claire M. Cohen, Ed Grystar, Kay Tillow, and Ana Malinow, Common Dreams. Strategize! Health Care, Medicaid, Medicare for all, National Day of Action, Single payer health care

Activists on May 31 made bold demands, refusing to believe the wealthiest country should have a separate healthcare system for the poor, or that we should wait until we are 65 to access a public healthcare system into which we pay all our working lives. On May 31, activists demanded an end to a system where health insurance CEOs, who worry more about “disappointing investors” than patients, control our health. On May 31, we demanded the end of a system where insurance companies get to make trillions of dollars in earnings and spend millions on federal lobbying to influence government officials who write the laws to benefit the owners and not the people who suffer under it.

Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful’ Cuts To Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid And More

May 28, 2025 Louisiana Workers Council, Black Agenda Report. Educate! Budget Cuts, Congress, Health Care, Medicaid, Medicare, Trump Administration

The MAGA movement claims to support health care for vulnerable Americans, but their budget tells a different story. 13.7 million people will lose Medicaid — nearly 1 in 5 current enrollees. Nationally, 72 million rely on Medicaid, including 1.6 million in Louisiana and 180,000 in New Orleans. Another 500,000 low-income Louisianans get subsidized ACA coverage. Everyone on Medicaid or ACA plans will suffer from these cuts. This isn’t “saving money” — it’s a war on the poor, sick, and vulnerable. Millions will suffer, hospitals will close, and families will be bankrupted — all to fund tax cuts for the wealthy. These cuts are cruelty by design.

The Republican Budget Bill Will Hurt Rural America

May 21, 2025 Michael Chameides, Barn Raiser. Resist! Health Care, Medicaid, Republicans, rural communities

On Friday, five Republicans in the House Budget Committee—including four members of the conservative House Freedom Caucus—joined all Democrats on the committee in blocking the bill from reaching the House floor. But some of the opposition want even deeper cuts to programs like Medicaid to offset exorbitant tax cuts for the rich. Now is the time to make sure every member of the House of Representatives knows how we feel. Here is the current expected timeline for activity on the legislation. Sunday, May 18 – Monday, May 19: The House Budget Committee reconvenes at 10 p.m. Sunday to markup and package the legislation into one bill.

Is There Really An Epidemic Of Workless Medicaid Recipients?

May 18, 2025 Matt Bruenig, People's Policy Project. Educate! Employment, Means Testing, Medicaid, Trump Administration

Today, I wrote a piece for the New York Times titled “Medicaid Work Requirements Are Cruel and Pointless.” The post below about Medicaid utilization in SIPP is an accompaniment to that piece. The New York Times recently ran an opinion piece from RFK Jr. and three other Trump administration officials in which they argue in favor of adding work requirements to Medicaid, the health insurance program for low-income Americans. At one point in the piece, they write that: A recent analysis from an economist at the American Enterprise Institute examined survey data from December 2022 (the most recent month available) and found that just 44 percent of able-bodied, working-age Medicaid beneficiaries without dependents worked at least 80 hours in that month.

New Report Documents Disparities In Workers’ Health Care Coverage

May 14, 2025 Center for Economic and Policy Studies, Popular Resistance. Educate! Health Care, Health Insurance, Medicaid, Working Class

As Congressional Republicans weigh major cuts to Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act (ACA), a new research paper reveals troubling disparities in how workers obtain health insurance in the United States. The new paper from the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) – A Complicated Maze: How Workers Navigate the US Health Care System – finds major gaps in the availability of employer-based insurance. The complicated public and private system that attempts to fill those gaps, however, falls short of providing universal coverage – and Congress is considering changes that threaten to end coverage for millions of workers.

Resistance Grows As Proposed Cuts Threaten Health Care For Millions

April 7, 2025 Eleanor J. Bader, Truthout. Resist! Austerity, Budget Cuts, Health Care, Medicaid, Trump Administration

Kelly Smith, a 57-year-old New York City resident, is part of the Nonviolent Medicaid Army (NVMA), a growing national movement of poor people who are organizing to stop proposed cuts to Medicaid and promote health care as a human right. “The need for health care unites us all,” Smith told Truthout. “Right now, I’m terrified of losing Medicaid and being unable to get injections for pain control. They’re the only thing that makes it possible for me to be on my game.” Nonetheless, she says that her health is somewhat fragile. Not only is she a breast cancer survivor, but she also has severe scoliosis and takes medication for hypertension, high cholesterol and depression — all covered by Medicaid.

How Medicaid Cuts Could Devastate Tribal Health Systems

March 29, 2025 Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez, In These Times. Educate! Health Care, Medicaid, Native Americans, Trump Administration

As Congress mulls potentially massive cuts to federal Medicaid funding, health centers that serve Native American communities, such as the Oneida Community Health Center near Green Bay, Wisconsin, are bracing for catastrophe. That’s because more than 40% of the about 15,000 patients the center serves are enrolled in Medicaid. Cuts to the program would be detrimental to those patients and the facility, said Debra Danforth, the director of the Oneida Comprehensive Health Division and a citizen of the Oneida Nation. “It would be a tremendous hit,” she said.

Thousands March In Manhattan Against MAGA Cuts

March 18, 2025 G. Dunkel, Workers World. Resist! Donald Trump, Medicaid, Medicare, New York City (NYC), Social Security

From New York’s City Hall to Bowling Green, the march stretched from curb to curb in Manhattan on March 15, behind a lead banner that read “Stand with workers. Stop the cuts.” Among the thousands who marched, many held signs opposing Trump’s attacks on Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security. The protest represented a broad coalition with significant union participation, notably from the Laborers, Service Employees Union (SEIU), Communications Workers of America (CWA), American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), the New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA) and Professional Staff Congress (PSC-CUNY) of the American Federation of Teachers Local 2334.

Republicans Passed A Budget That Could Result In Cuts To Medicaid

March 2, 2025 Natalia Marques, People's Dispatch. Educate! Congress, Health Care, Medicaid, Tax cuts for the rich, Trump Administration

On Tuesday, February 25, Republicans in the House of Representatives narrowly passed a budget resolution that would extend Trump’s 2017 tax cuts for the ultra-wealthy and implement new tax cuts, costing the government USD 4.1 trillion. These cuts will allow the highest income brackets to pay less in taxes, often contributing far less of their income than those at the lowest income brackets. Tax cuts to the wealthy serve to deprive the government of tax revenue it would have otherwise received from the highest income brackets—which could otherwise go to funding government programs that millions rely on.

Elon Musk’s DOGE ‘Proud Boys’ Blitzkrieg Of Government Offices For Personal Data Of All US Citizens

February 3, 2025 Colonel (Ret) Ann Wright, Popular Resistance. Educate! DOGE, Elon Musk, Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security, Trump Administration, US Treasury Department

In raids reminiscent of the “January 6” Proud Boys attack on the U.S. Capitol four years ago, unelected, unvetted and without federal government security clearance, the Trump anointed head of the yet unapproved Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) Elon Musk and his henchmen with enormous computing background are wrecking havoc in government offices with sensitive personal data of all U.S. citizens. This past week, Musk’s blitzkrieg team gained access to sensitive Treasury data including Social Security and Medicare customer payment systems.

Biden’s Legacy: Genocide Abroad, Economic Despair At Home

January 20, 2025 Natalia Marques, People's Dispatch. Educate! Class Struggle, Cost of living, Donald Trump, Finance and the Economy, Genocide, Homelessness, Housing, Israel, Joe Biden, Medicaid, Palestine, Palestine solidarity movement, United States

46th US President Joe Biden officially leaves office Monday, January 20, to be succeeded by former President Donald Trump. Trump’s promises in the name of “saving American workers” have raised alarm for people across sectors of society, including migrant workers who are gearing up for mass deportations, and unionized workers who are preparing for Trump’s attacks on labor rights. Trump’s loyalty to multi-billionaires has also given the working class of the US great cause for concern. Meanwhile, in contrast, the Democrats have attempted to position themselves as the real defenders of working people.

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