Hollywood legend Gene Hackman and his wife, Betsy Arakawa, were found dead in their home in February 2025. Hackman had been living with Alzheimer’s and depended on Arakawa as his…
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Community health centers provide care for 1 in 10 Americans, but funding cuts threaten their survival
Affordable health care was the primary point of contention in the longest government shutdown in U.S. history, which hit 43 days on Nov. 12, 2025. This fight highlights a persistent…
Why are 4.7 million Floridians insured through ACA marketplace plans, and what happens if they lose their subsidies?
Significant Figures is a series from The Conversation in which scholars explain an important number in the news. The Conversation, CC BY-ND When the Affordable Care Act, also known as…
Health insurance subsidy standoff pits affordable care for millions against federal budget constraints
As the federal government entered a shutdown on Oct. 1, 2025, competing narratives quickly emerged about the cause. Some Republican lawmakers objected to Democrats’ push to include an extension of…
How the government shutdown is hitting the health care system – and what the battle over ACA subsidies means
Major rifts over key health care issues are at the heart of the federal government shutdown that began at the stroke of midnight on Oct. 1, 2025. This is not…
How 17M Americans enrolled in Medicaid and ACA plans could lose their health insurance by 2034
The big tax and spending package President Donald Trump signed into law on July 4, 2025, will cut government spending on health care by more than US$1 trillion over the…
Rural hospitals will be hit hard by Trump’s signature spending package
The public health provisions in the massive spending package that President Donald Trump signed into law on July 4, 2025, will reduce Medicaid spending by more than US$1 trillion over…
Conservatives notch 2 victories in their fight to deny Planned Parenthood federal funding through Medicaid
Conservatives have won two important battles in their decades-long campaign against Planned Parenthood, a network of affiliated clinics that are the largest provider of reproductive health services in the U.S.…
Employers are failing to insure the working class – Medicaid cuts would leave them even more vulnerable
The Congressional Budget Office estimates that 7.8 million Americans across the U.S. would lose their coverage through Medicaid – the public program that provides health insurance to low-income families and…
Employers are failing to insure the working class – Medicaid cuts will leave them even more vulnerable
The Congressional Budget Office estimates that 7.8 million Americans across the U.S. will lose their coverage through Medicaid – the public program that provides health insurance to low-income families and…
