2025-01-28 19:54:22

Medicaid portals reportedly down after Trump’s federal funding freeze

Lawmakers and state officials say portals inaccessible for one of largest health insurance programs in USMany lawmakers and state officials have reported that portals for Medicaid are down following the Trump administration’s decision to freeze trillions of dollars in federal funding – an effort by the new president to root out “wokeness” in the federal government.Medicaid is a health insurance program for low-income people run jointly by states and the federal government. It insures more than one in five Americans, or about 69 million people – nearly half of whom are children. Continue reading...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/28/trump-federal-funding-freeze-medicaid

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