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According to health policy experts, there may not be a way to fund the tax cuts proposed by House Republicans without cutting ...

Disability rights advocates say income and asset caps for Medicaid buy-in programs are a "poverty trap" for millions of ...

A fierce debate over how to reform Social Security is playing out in the nation’s capital as the program’s long-term solvency is in question and amid new efforts to cut ...

The Social Security Administration is shuttering offices, and the Republicans’ own math suggests that they are planning big ...

Here's what we know about Daniel Hernandez Jr. and his plans for the empty congressional seat left by the late U.S. Rep. Raúl ...

Wick has become an unwitting expert in the ways that bureaucracy makes it hard to enroll in government programs like Medicaid, without which a person’s basic needs could go unmet.

"There’s no room to absorb additional costs” in Maine's health care system, according to a health care executive.

The best place to find fraud and waste of taxpayer money is between public spending and private contracts.Cutting social ...

With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic brought a surge in remote health care services. Telehealth has been a creative, ...