Mississippi lawmakers are unlikely to expand Medicaid this year as they wait to see how federal funding for the program might ...

Do you know how many people in Mississippi get medical help through Medicare and Medicaid? What you need to know about the ...

The talk of such dramatic changes to the federal-state program has Mississippi lawmakers concerned – and hesitant to push ...

Ten states haven't expanded Medicaid yet. Two of them, Georgia and Mississippi, have seriously considered doing so. In an interesting coincidence, Medicaid itself costs around $880 billion a year ...

The nation’s poorest state — Mississippi — has traditionally been the recipient of more federal dollars per capita than any other commonwealth. We’ve lived off the federal spending spigot ...

Social Security and Medicare have historically been considered untouchable because the main beneficiaries of those two ...

After two rounds of votes, the bill passed with a vote of 217 to 215. The bill proposes $2 trillion in cuts from the budget which could take funding from social programs like Medicaid. With one in ...

The federal share varies widely, from 60 percent in Massachusetts to 82 percent states such as Mississippi and West Virginia. Congress is mulling at least four ways to cut federal Medicaid spending.

Medicaid explainer: who relies on the program, what exactly is known about fraud and how the federal government splits the ...

Advocates have gathered at the Alabama Statehouse to urge lawmakers to reconsider their long-held reluctance to expand ...

Mississippi lawmakers are unlikely to expand Medicaid this year as they wait to see how federal funding for the program might change. Both the House and Senate have "dummy bills" related to ...