A conservative organization is spending more than $1 million in Iowa’s 1st and 3rd District supporting U.S. Reps. Mariannette Miller-Meeks and Zach Nunn’s reelection campaigns, highlighting their work to pass the One Big Beautiful Bill Act which included tax cut provisions. American Action Network, a conservative advocacy organization, launched the Iowa ad campaign Thursday — […]
About 78,000 Arkansas girls and women between the ages of 15 and 44 lived in a county with nowhere to give birth and no obstetric physicians in 2024, according to a Tuesday report from the women’s and children’s advocacy group March of Dimes. Almost half of Arkansas’ 75 counties are maternity care deserts, compared to […]
Just over a year after passage of the so-called “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” (OBBBA), Michigan families are feeling its harm. The federal megabill cuts billions of dollars in food assistance and healthcare for struggling households to give further tax breaks to the ultrawealthy. While good jobs remain hard to come by in Michigan and […]
Just over 12 hours after declaring victory in the Democratic primary, political organizer William Lawrence was back on the campaign trail, gathering outside of the University of Michigan Health – Sparrow Hospital in Lansing with healthcare providers and residents slated to feel the impact from changes to Medicaid through the federal One Big Beautiful Bill […]
Planned Parenthood of Michigan announced on Thursday that, effective immediately, it would be permanently closing three locations in Lansing, Livonia and Warren in the face of funding changes and financial constraints after Republican federal legislation changed the eligibility of Medicaid coverage at Planned Parenthood. A press release from the organization said that it had faced […]
Marking the 61st year since President Lyndon B. Johnson signed Medicaid into law, a coalition of health providers and advocates gathered on the Michigan Capitol Lawn Thursday to stand up for the program as federal changes threaten health coverage access for roughly 200,000 residents. Established as part of Johnson’s “Great Society” agenda, Medicaid provides health […]
It would be easy to blame Republicans — especially the present White House occupant — for the steady atrophying of healthcare that’s readily accessible to Virginians in rural areas. You wouldn’t be wrong. You wouldn’t be totally right either. Policies put in place during President Donald Trump’s second term contribute substantially to the declining availability […]
FRANKFORT — Thanks to an “unanticipated” corporate income tax payment and revenue surplus, Gov. Andy Beshear announced Wednesday that Medicaid providers will not suffer a 4% reimbursement cut after all. Beshear said $255 million from the taxes, as well as additional revenue, will delay any cuts to Medicaid reimbursement through this fiscal year, which ends […]
