Doulas Provide Crucial Care to Mothers. Medicaid Cuts Could Change That.

Funding for doulas may be safe in New York, for now. But elsewhere, health experts are concerned that President Trump’s domestic policy law could jeopardize access to maternal care.

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When the G.O.P. Medicaid Cuts Arrive, These Hospitals Will Be Hit Hardest

Republicans created a special $50 billion fund to help rural hospitals stay afloat, but the biggest impacts may be in cities.

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Lines at the Food Pantry, Billionaires at the White House

What the government shutdown revealed about Trump’s America.

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What Trump’s New Drug Pricing Deal Means for People With Obesity

The president’s agreement with drug companies involves a range of prices, depending on dose, product and how you’re paying.

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‘A Big Positive’: How One Company Plans to Profit From Medicaid Cuts

New work requirements are expected to leave millions of poor Americans uninsured. For Equifax, which charges states steep prices for its trove of employment data, it is a business opportunity.

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How Medicaid’s New Work Requirement Will Work

Poor Americans will face new challenges to enroll, and states will have to build new bureaucracies.

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An Obamacare Hot Spot Where Price Spikes Pose an Outsized Threat

South Florida will feel some of the most intense reverberations if Congress allows the extra insurance subsidies it approved during the pandemic to expire.

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After Trump Cuts, Hochul Vows to Fund Planned Parenthood in New York

President Trump’s signature policy bill has barred clinics that provide abortions from receiving any Medicaid payments, putting many at risk of closure.

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U.S. Health Workers Recalled From Shutdown Furlough for Medicare, A.C.A. Enrollments

An estimated 3,000 employees seem to be affected. The federal agency said the return to work would occur Monday, with the costs paid by user fees collected from researchers.

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Obamacare Is Expensive. But So Is All Health Insurance.

The main difference is that most Americans don’t confront the full cost of their coverage.

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