Medicaid

Arcs in the news about Medicaid from the outlets we track, each followed from its first story to its last, with who covered it.

Organization · 370 stories · 2,129 articles · earliest story we hold Nov 14, 2023

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The cuts to Medicaid: work requirements, Trump's payment freeze and hospitals

14 of 24 stories this year

Trump’s federal grant pause creates confusion over Medicaid funding · 31 articles, Jan 28Republicans consider cuts and work requirements for Medicaid, jeopardizing care for millions · 47 articles, Feb 18Minnesota state GOP lawmakers ask U.S. House Republicans to spare Medicaid · 30 articles, Feb 24Republicans must cut Medicaid or Medicare to achieve their budget goals, CBO finds · 30 articles, Feb 28Trump CMS nominee Dr. Oz won't commit to opposing Medicaid cuts · 10 articles, Mar 14Parents of children with disabilities say Medicaid cuts will put livelihoods, kids' health at risk · 15 articles, Mar 18House Republicans unveil Medicaid cuts that Democrats warn will leave millions without care · 4 articles, May 12Trump warns House Republicans, ‘Don't f— around with Medicaid' · 6 articles, May 20Senate Republicans unveil plan for cuts to Medicaid and taxes in Trump agenda bill · 9 articles, Jun 16Senate GOP releases domestic policy bill with deeper cuts to Medicaid · 6 articles, Jun 17GOP senators warn mega-bill’s new Medicaid cuts will hurt rural hospitals · 10 articles, Jun 18A Missouri mother’s plea: ‘Without Medicaid, we would lose everything’ · 6 articles, Jun 26Rural hospitals, SNAP cuts, Medicaid: Democrats force tough votes on GOP mega-bill • New Hampshire Bulletin · 48 articles, Jun 26Rural hospitals brace for financial hits or even closure under Republicans' $1 trillion Medicaid cut · 20 articles, Jun 29

Coverage over timeindependent sources per week, by side, every year we hold

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Aug 31, 202612211063
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Sep 28, 20264239

Stories before June 28, 2026 come from archived pages, so who covered them is limited to the outlets we recovered for that period.

Everything else77 stories in 2025 not part of any arc, newest first

Stories about Medicaid that are not part of any arc yet

  1. Dec 31Appeals court says Medicaid funding cuts for Planned Parenthood can stand while lawsuit proceeds7 articles · 7 independent sources
    0 left, 1 center, 2 right
  2. Dec 30Judge: ICE can use limited Medicaid data for enforcement6 articles · 6 independent sources
    2 left, 1 center, 2 right
  3. Dec 23Medicaid paid more than $207 million for dead people. A new law could help fix that10 articles · 10 independent sources
    0 left, 2 center, 1 right
  4. Dec 18– 19About half of Medicaid's $18 billion in claims paid to Minnesota programs may be fraudulent, official says7 articles · 5 independent sources
    3 left, 2 center, 0 right
  5. Dec 7Dr. Oz warns Walz to address alleged Somali Medicaid fraud or lose federal funding: ‘We’ll stop paying’5 articles · 5 independent sources
    0 left, 0 center, 3 right
  6. Nov 20– 21Somali terror group Al-Shabaab ‘taking a cut’ of millions in stolen Minnesota taxpayer money from welfare fraud scheme: report5 articles · 5 independent sources
    0 left, 0 center, 5 right
  7. Nov 12Judge to hear arguments on law cutting Planned Parenthood Medicaid funds11 articles · 9 independent sources
    1 left, 2 center, 2 right
  8. Oct 10– 11Trump unveils deal for AstraZeneca to cut Medicaid drug prices and join24 articles · 17 independent sources
    4 left, 5 center, 2 right
  9. Sep 30– Oct 1President announces TrumpRx website for drugs, and pricing deal with Pfizer56 articles · 43 independent sources
    5 left, 16 center, 6 right
  10. Sep 25Wisconsin Planned Parenthood pauses abortions amid federal Medicaid funding cut14 articles · 13 independent sources
    1 left, 3 center, 1 right

Stories that name Medicaid

  1. Dec 19– 20Trump announces new deals with drugmakers to lower prices for Americans31 articles · 21 independent sources
    4 left, 6 center, 4 right
  2. Dec 18– 19Trump administration moves to cut off gender-affirming care for transgender youth29 articles · 24 independent sources
    6 left, 8 center, 0 right
  3. Dec 9– 12Whistleblower warns massive fraud is happening in Ohio Somali community, Minnesota ‘just tip of the spear’5 articles · 5 independent sources
    0 left, 0 center, 5 right
  4. Nov 4– 6Trump strikes deal to lower cost of weight loss drugs25 articles · 19 independent sources
    3 left, 6 center, 6 right
  5. Oct 27Wisconsin Planned Parenthood resumes offering abortions after a nearly monthlong pause9 articles · 9 independent sources
    0 left, 3 center, 0 right
  6. Oct 17– 20Another ‘No Kings’ protest stretches a mile through downtown Seattle145 articles · 64 independent sources
    21 left, 27 center, 9 right
  7. Sep 30– Oct 2GOP misleads with claim that Democrats shut down to give health care to 'illegal immigrants'21 articles · 16 independent sources
    4 left, 5 center, 3 right
  8. Sep 29– Oct 1How Social Security will be affected by a government shutdown9 articles · 7 independent sources
    3 left, 3 center, 1 right
  9. Aug 29– Sep 2Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst announces she won’t seek reelection in 202620 articles · 15 independent sources
    5 left, 4 center, 4 right
  10. Aug 5Nebraska Republican is shouted down by hostile crowd at a town hall on Trump's tax cuts14 articles · 10 independent sources
    0 left, 5 center, 1 right

Local coverage

  1. Jul 16Vance heads to Pennsylvania to launch the White House's first major push to sell Trump's big bill5 articles · 5 independent sources
    0 left, 2 center, 1 right
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