Policy changes forced 450,000 people off the low-cost Essential Plan on July 1.

Medicaid is the main health insurance program for people in Alabama who have low incomes, but it is often hard to get. Alabama hasn't expanded its Medicaid program, which means getting Medicaid can be ...

Medi-Cal, California's Medicaid program, provides health insurance to adults, children and families with low incomes. To get Medi-Cal, you have to make less than about $1,800 per month if you're ...

On the Oregon/Idaho border, rural Americans’ access to care depends on which side of the river they happen to live.

A new study led by a University of Chicago researcher finds that health care spending in the United States has increasingly ...

As states face a deadline to enforce new work requirements, some lawmakers seek to publicly name the largest companies that ...

The fate of the state’s $2 billion plan to maintain health insurance for low-income and disabled Californians is now in the hands of Mehmet Oz, the celebrity doctor and Republican administrator of the ...

With the federal Medicaid work requirement looming in January, Democrats are considering state legislation to call out big ...

The cuts are just the beginning. The hole in the state’s budget will double as federal funding phases out over time.

In July 2025, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) mandated significant health care funding cuts and policy changes related ...

Discover what Canadians pay for private health insurance and what provincial plans don't cover ...

While the number of working adults who depend on food stamps and Medicaid has ticked up since the start of the pandemic, the ...