Medicaid

SAN BERNARDINO, CA — The Trump administration was handed a major victory by the Supreme Court in its bid to expand the scope and to implement stricter enforcement of the “public charge” rule, with a 5...

MANHATTAN, NY —  The Trump administration and its effort to overhaul the country’s immigration system suffered another legal defeat. Last Friday, judges in New York and Washington state both issued nationwide injunctions blocking the administration’s public...

WASHINGTON DC — Democratic Senators Mazie Hirono of Hawaii and Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut introduced a bill on Tuesday that would block the Trump administration’s expanded “public charge” rule. “The public charge rule vastly expands the basis...

ELIZABETH, NJ — Family planning clinics that receive federal funding will no longer be permitted by the Trump administration to provide abortion referrals. If they do not comply, they will lose their funding. The Department of...

OAKLAND, CA — AJ Titong of the Asian Pacific Islander American Health Forum is calling the latest Trump administration proposal — regarding obtaining green cards — another attack on immigrant families. The Department of Homeland Security may...

A proposed rule by the Trump administration could make it harder for legal immigrants to get green cards if they received certain kinds of public assistance — including Medicaid, food stamps and housing subsidies. A final...

NEW JERSEY — The Senate Republican healthcare bill might be on life support, but it is still casting a wide net of confusion and worry for millions of Americans — including  this single mother and her disabled...

The Filipino-American co-president of the California Nurses Association — which has more than 86,000 members in hospitals, clinics and home health agencies in all 50 states — has slammed the Senate’s Better Care Reconciliation Act. “...

WASHINGTON, DC — President Donald Trump praised the Senate Republicans’ version of legislation that would replace Obamacare. Senators aim to put the draft bill to a vote possibly as early as next week. The Senate’s version...

Surrounded by pink-clad Planned Parenthood supporters waving their pink glow sticks, Novelyn Aquino explained that as a teenager with strict Filipino parents, Planned Parenthood was important in teaching her about reproductive health. “Planned Parenthood was a...