Medicare and Medicaid, which have provided healthcare safety nets for millions of Americans for 60 years, are facing ...

As elderly Americans begin to lose SNAP and Medicaid under President Trump’s new tax and spending law, providers brace for more senior citizens looking for enough to eat.

Across Illinois, 3.4 million people are on Medicaid — about one-fourth of the state’s population.

“We’re talking about small, rural community hospitals, nursing homes, children, seniors, for adults working multiple low income jobs,” Cook County Health COO Dr. Kiran Joshi said.

Of the people kicked off of Medicaid when Arkansas imposed work rules in 2018, 97% were compliant or had exemptions but still lost coverage, the Illinois agency noted in the presentation to lawmakers.

For example, more than half of Illinois residents with HIV who are on Medicaid qualify because of the expansion under the Affordable Care Act, said Nadeen Israel, senior vice president of policy ...

The Illinois Medicaid program currently costs about $33.7 billion a year, according to the Department of Healthcare and Family Services. Of that, $20.9 billion, or about 62%, comes from the ...