Medicaid is a joint federal and state program that provides health care coverage to low-income individuals and families. It services over 79 million Americans.

For years, they have refused to fully fund Medicaid and give hardworking Georgians access to quality, affordable health care,” she said. “They choose to leave billions of revenue dollars on the table every single year and instead play partisan politics by starting their own disastrous health care plans that fail Georgians.

Medicaid expansion saves lives and saves money, proponents said — an estimated $27 million the last biennium, according to Rep. Ed Buttrey, sponsoring one bill to continue the program. “Our program is a budget savings to the general fund,

Beyond Tuesday’s Medicaid portal outage, Democrats fear there’s an even greater risk to the federal program that lower-income Illinoisans rely on for health care: a federal budget cut that could lead to more than 900,

Four Republicans added their signatures to a Democrat-sponsored bill seeking Medicaid expansion. ATLANTA — Some Republican Georgia lawmakers are poised to expand Medicaid in Georgia. Backers say it would give access to health care to hundreds of thousands of Georgians who can’t afford it.