Oz pledges to fight health care fraud but makes no commitments on Medicaid funding cuts
WASHINGTON (AP) — Dr. Mehmet Oz, President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, will ...
Congress must preserve Medicare funding to protect seniors’ health care | Opinion
When accounting for inflation, my fellow physicians and I are paid almost one-third less for seeing Medicare patients than we ...
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Federal funding cuts could impact already fragile rural health care
Rural hospitals and clinics face potential closures, leaving patients with longer travel times, fewer options and more ...
Hospital gun-violence prevention programs may be caught in federal funding crossfire
Hospital-based violence intervention programs have operated in the U.S. since the mid-1990s, but recent moves by the Trump ...
How could Tarrant County child care be impacted by federal layoffs, new immigration policy?
In recent weeks, 20% of federal staff at the Office of Head Start and 25% at the Office of Child Care were laid off. Here’s ...
'You will cost lives': Kentucky bill bans Medicaid funding for gender-affirming care
A bill that would overturn restrictions on conversion therapy has been amended to prohibit Medicaid funds from being spent on ...
Lamont cuts more funding to UConn, state colleges and universities
Gov. Ned Lamont took $41 million from more than a dozen agencies on Friday, including more than $6 million from public ...
Hundreds of Iowans got out-of-state abortions with help of funding groups, estimates show
New data from Midwest abortion access funds show that more than 600 Iowans received support to travel out-of-state for ...
A father of a trans man voted for Trump. Now he fears an order targeting gender-affirming care will upend his son’s treatment
An executive order from Trump denying federal funding for providers of gender-affirming health care for minors threatens to ...
LEFT DIRECTIONLESS: State policies for those directing their own disability care are hindering people's independence
This is part 1 of a 2-part series about the challenges of navigating self-directed services, a disability care model. Sam Silverman, a 23-year-old man who is autistic and has two chromosome disorders, ...
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Vermont agriculture community reels from federal funding changes
Farmers thrive on predictability,” said Anson Tebbetts, secretary of the Agency of Agriculture, Food and Markets. “But we're not in that space right now. So I think everyone is taking it day to day.” ...