New Trump administration rules that give millions of people a shorter timeframe to sign up for the ACA's healthcare coverage are facing a legal challenge from Democratic mayors around the country. The rules reverse a Biden-era effort to expand access to the ACA's health insurance. The previous Democratic administration expanded the enrollment window for the coverage, which led to record enrollment.
Nebraska's health leaders are concerned about proposed cuts to Medicaid laid out in Congress' budget reconciliation bill, also called the 'Big Beautiful Bill.' The more than 1,000-page bill covers many things, one being cuts to Medicaid. Rural health leaders said that it will cost 110,000 Nebraskans their health insurance, as well as 5,000 Nebraskans their jobs, citing a report done by the University of Nebraska Medical Center's College of Public Health. Within the report, the largest concern was for rural heathcare.
The Trump administration violated federal privacy laws when it turned over Medicaid data on millions of enrollees to deportation officials last month, California Attorney General Rob Bonta alleged on Tuesday, saying he and 19 other states' attorneys general have sued over the move.
President Donald Trump's 'big beautiful bill' would make sweeping changes to U.S. healthcare, leaving millions of vulnerable Americans without health insurance and threatening the hospitals and health centers that provide care to them.
Republicans in the Senate narrowly passed President Donald Trump's domestic agenda bill after a dramatic scramble to win over key holdouts. The vote was 50-50, and Vice President JD Vance cast the tie-breaking vote. Another high-stakes battle now looms, as the bill must pass in the House before heading to the president’s desk. GOP leaders are racing to try to get the bill to the White House by July 4. The roughly multi-trillion-dollar bill would unlock tax cuts and funding boosts for national security, partly paid for by the biggest cut to the federal safety net in decades.
Using national estimates on changes in provider revenue under the reconciliation bill, we find that rural areas would lose $87 billion in hospital revenue between 2025 and 2034, including $66 billion in lost revenue because of the reconciliation bill and $22 biliion in lost revenue because of expiriation of the enhanced PTCs.