Economic Scene: What’s at Stake in a Health Bill That Slashes the Safety Net

March 21, 2017 Eduardo Porter ECONOMIC SCENE What do we lose when social insurance unravels? It is startling to realize just how much the social safety net expanded during Barack Obama’s presidency. In 2016, means-tested entitlements like Medicaid and food...

House Leaders Seeking Health Care Votes Eye New York Republicans

By THOMAS KAPLAN and ROBERT PEAR March 20, 2017 WASHINGTON — House Republican leaders, trying to lock down the votes of wavering upstate New York Republicans, inserted a last-minute special provision in their health care bill that would shift...

States Could Make Work a Medicaid Requirement Under G.O.P. Deal

By THOMAS KAPLAN and ROBERT PEAR March 17, 2017 WASHINGTON — President Trump and conservative lawmakers in the House agreed on Friday to allow states to impose work requirements on able-bodied Medicaid recipients and to accept federal...