Medicaid is a joint federal and state program that provides health coverage to low-income individuals, including children, pregnant women, people with disabilities and seniors. For seniors, it helps ...

The total population of senior citizens is 55.8 million, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Of that, 1.3 million are in nursing homes. That’s about 2.3%. Maybe that doesn’t seem like a lot, but the ...

Medicaid pays for most of the 1.4 million elderly people in nursing homes, like Jacobs. It covers 20 percent of all Americans and 40 percent of poor adults. On Thursday, Senate Republicans joined ...

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Since Maggie is in her 60s and still working, it’s unlikely she would meet the requirements for undue hardship if the state ...

Congressional Republicans may be looking to cut billions of dollars from Medicaid funding to cover an extension of President Donald Trump's 2017 tax breaks. Though Medicare is the primary health ...