Christina Martin, an advocacy leader for Louisiana Developmental Disability Council's Advocacy Network, relies on Medicaid ...

The stakes are particularly high for Louisiana, which has one of the highest per-capita percentages of residents on Medicaid ...

Nationally, 55% of Americans said the government spends too little on Medicaid, according to a January poll from The ...

Louisiana’s reliance on federal funds for half of the state budget leaves it vulnerable as President Donald Trump and ...

To preserve tax cuts passed in President Donald Trump’s previous term, the Republican-controlled House last week passed a ...

Healthcare fraud is prevalent within state Medicaid programs due to the massive amounts of money flowing through the system. In Louisiana, the ...

In its 60 years, Medicaid has swelled from a small program that provided medical care to poor Americans receiving cash assistance to the largest source of public insurance. It covers 72 million ...

“We’re not going to touch it. Now, we are going to look for fraud,” Trump said Wednesday when asked about Medicaid. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) echoed that goal. Democrats are ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Every time a baby is born in Louisiana, where Republican House ... 60% chance taxpayers will finance the birth through Medicaid. In Republican Rep. David Valadao ’s central ...

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