While 2017 saw multiple legislative assaults upon the Affordable Care Act, and long-standing health care for highly vulnerable people through the Medicaid Program, these efforts were stopped by Congressional Democrats and a handful of Republicans who crossed party lines. …

Most of us know the oft-quoted poem, First They Came, written by German Lutheran pastor Martin Niemoller. …

Beginning in 2017, there has been an unprecedented assault on Medicaid, the health care program for the most vulnerable Americans, including low-income children and families, children and adults with disabilities, pregnant women, children in the foster care system, and senior citizens. As funding for the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP)…

Tying “work requirements” to Medicaid eligibility, a dramatic and ideological departure from Medicaid policy, has now been requested by 11 states (AZ, AR, IN, KS, KY, ME, MS, NH, NC, UT, and WI), approved in Kentucky, and allowed and encouraged by the Trump Administration in a guidance letter to state…