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  1. Medicare Watch Nebraska Rushes Into Medicaid Red Tape, Threatening Access to Care
  2. Medicare Watch Congressional Republicans Eye Budget Reconciliation 2.0
  3. Medicare Watch President’s Budget Request Targets Vital Programs
  4. Positions and Publications What the Affordable Care Act Means for Older Adults
  5. Positions and Publications What Medicaid Financing Means for Older Adults and People With Disabilities
  6. Positions and Publications What Medicaid Cuts Mean for Older Adults and People With Disabilities
  7. Positions and Publications What Medicaid Waivers Mean for Older Adults and People With Disabilities
  8. Policy Series What’s at Stake for Older Adults and People With Disabilities
  9. Medicare Watch Family Caregiving’s Enormous Economic and Personal Value
  10. Medicare Watch Affordable Care Act Cost Spikes Harm Older Adults
  11. Medicare Watch Proposed Rule Could Undermine ACA Coverage
  12. Medicare Watch Expiration of Enhanced Premium Tax Credits Will Impact Older Adults, KFF Finds
  13. Medicare Watch AARP Examines Ways to Strengthen Original Medicare 
  14. Medicare Watch Federal Health Care Funding in Place for 2026
  15. Medicare Watch Rising Health Care Costs a Top Concern for Public, Medical Debt Hits People Over 50 Hard
  16. Medicare Watch Administration Proposes Discriminatory Anti-Trans Regulations, Weaponizing Medicare
  17. Medicare Watch Rural Health Fund Awards Cannot Compensate for Enormous Medicaid Cuts that Threaten Home Care
  18. Medicare Watch Affordable Health Care in Jeopardy for Millions
  19. Medicare Watch Senate Fails to Extend ACA Subsidies; Price Hikes Loom
  20. Medicare Watch Shutdown to End, but Access to Affordable ACA Marketplace Plans Still at Risk
  21. Medicare Watch ACA Open Enrollment Causing Sticker Shock for Millions, Congress Must Act
  22. Medicare Watch Older Adults at Risk if ACA Subsidies Expire
  23. Medicare Watch Health Literacy Month: Making Care Understandable, Equitable, and Accessible
  24. Medicare Watch Federal Government Shuts Down Over Health Care Subsidies
  25. Medicare Watch States Already Cutting Medicaid, Massive Federal Cuts Yet to Come
  26. Medicare Watch Federal Funding Deadline Looms
  27. Medicare Watch Congress Must Preserve Access to Affordable Marketplace Coverage
  28. Medicare Watch Growing Economic Challenges for People with Medicare
  29. Medicare Watch A Vision for Medicare Sustainability
  30. Medicare Watch CBO Report on Distributional Effects of the Budget Act Finds Richest Gain and Poorest Face Cuts
  31. Medicare Watch Affordable Care Act Marketplace Premiums Expected to Skyrocket
  32. Medicare Watch Medicare and Medicaid: 60 Years of Health Care Reform
  33. Medicare Watch Congressional Budget Office Final Score: Reconciliation Bill Increases Deficit by 3.4 Trillion; Causes 10 Million to Lose Health Insurance
  34. Medicare Watch Celebrating Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid Anniversaries with an Eye Toward Current Hazards and Future Threats
  35. Medicare Watch Reconciliation Bill Timeline Stretches Far Into Future, Giving Some Opportunities for Correction
  36. Medicare Watch Medicaid Cuts at the State Level and Implementation Advocacy
  37. Press Release Medicare Rights Center Condemns Congress’s Rushed and Reckless Decision to Slash Medicaid, Medicare, the Affordable Care Act, and SNAP Food Assistance 
  38. Statement Statement from the Medicare Rights Center, the Center for Medicare Advocacy, and Justice in Aging on Passage of Devastating Cuts to Health and Nutrition Programs
  39. Medicare Watch Final House Vote on Devastating Health and Food Assistance Cuts
  40. Press Release Senate Republicans Choose to Terminate Health Coverage, Food Assistance for Millions, Including Older Adults and People With Disabilities  
  41. Medicare Watch Senate Reconciliation Bill Would Increase Financial Hardships for Medicare Enrollees
  42. Medicare Watch Senate Budget Bill Doubles Down on House’s Threat to Health and Economic Security
  43. Medicare Watch House Reconciliation Bill’s Health Care and SNAP Cuts Put Older Adults at Risk
  44. Medicare Watch Polling Shows Most People Are Worried About Significant Cuts to Medicaid Spending
  45. Medicare Watch A Whirlwind of Damage from Republican Budget: Increased Costs for All, Hospitals and Lives at Risk
  46. Medicare Watch Official House Bill Analysis Confirms Devastating Coverage Losses
  47. Medicare Watch Proposed Cuts Could End a Vital Medicare Support Network
  48. Medicare Watch House Republican Reconciliation Bill Targets People with Medicare
  49. Medicare Watch House Passes Bill That Would Devastate Health Coverage for Millions in Medicaid and Medicare
  50. Medicare Watch Broken Promises: Republicans’ Budget Reconciliation Bill Would Cut Medicare
  51. Policy Series Medicare Sustainability
  52. Medicare Watch House Republicans Move Forward with Plans to Cut Medicaid and Food Stamps, Reducing Coverage for Millions
  53. Medicare Watch HHS Secretary Kennedy Testifies, Defends Staffing Cuts and Reorganizations that Put Access to Services at Risk
  54. Medicare Watch CBO Analysis Shows Medicaid Cuts Would Terminate Coverage for Millions, Including People with Medicare
  55. Medicare Watch “Skinny” Budget Shows President’s Worrying Health Policy Priorities
  56. Medicare Watch Key Decisions Loom as Congress Continues Work on Major Reconciliation Bill
  57. Medicare Watch “100 Days” Poll Shows Rising Concerns About Public Health Systems
  58. Medicare Watch Congress Must Act to Continue Affordable Care Act’s Enhanced Premium Tax Credits
  59. Medicare Watch House Adopts Senate Budget Plan, Laying the Groundwork for Significant Health Care Cuts
  60. Medicare Watch Congress Moves to Cut Medicaid
  61. Medicare Watch Trump Administration and DOGE Eliminate Staff Who Help Older Adults and People With Disabilities
  62. Medicare Watch HHS Announces Sweeping Cuts That Threaten Access to Critical Services
  63. Medicare Watch Affordable Care Act Turns 15 With Yet Another Wave of Attacks on Affordable Plans
  64. Medicare Watch Threats to the Social Security Administration and to Benefits Continue to Raise Alarm 
  65. Medicare Watch Trump Administration and Elon Musk’s DOGE Closing Social Security Offices, Harming Access to Services
  66. Medicare Watch Federal Government Funding Decisions Loom
  67. Medicare Watch New Resources Show House Budget Would Slash Medicaid, Despite Voters’ Support of Program
  68. Medicare Watch House Advances Harmful Budget Plan
  69. Medicare Watch Medicaid Coverage Is Vital for Many People With Disabilities and Direct Care Workers
  70. Medicare Watch URGENT: Protect Medicaid for Millions of People with Medicare
  71. Medicare Watch Potential Target for Medicaid Cuts Would End Coverage for 20 Million People 
  72. Medicare Watch New Congressional Attempt to Cut Medicaid Through Budget Reconciliation
  73. Medicare Watch Medicaid Work Requirements Continue to Be a Bad Idea
  74. Medicare Watch White House Attempt to Freeze Federal Funds Sows Confusion
  75. Medicare Watch Polling Shows Broad Support for Health Care Spending as Incoming Administration Weigh Priorities
  76. Policy Series Protect and Strengthen Medicare

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