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Millions Of Kids Fall Outside Senate Plan To Shield Disabled From Medicaid Cuts

The Republican plan to replace Obamacare would reduce federal funding for Medicaid, but senators want to keep current funding levels for children who are blind or have other disabilities. Their proposal, however, would not apply to the majority of those kids.

Podcast: What The Health? Why Is This Stuff So Complicated?

The questions are practical and political. Returning from their holiday break, Republican Senate leaders must balance the concerns of their moderate and most conservative colleagues in seeking to pass their health reform bill.

The Union That Roars: Nurses Aren’t Giving Up On California’s Single-Payer Push

The California Nurses Association, representing some 100,000 registered nurses, is regarded statewide and nationally as a progressive political powerhouse. “Politicians are afraid” of the activists they turn out, said one critic.

Podcast: What The Health? Senate Bill Sparks Fireworks Before The Fourth

Julie Rovner of Kaiser Health News, Joanne Kenen of Politico, Margot Sanger-Katz of The New York Times and Paige Winfield Cunningham of The Washington Post discuss the state of the Senate’s effort to replace Obamacare.

Men Wrote The Senate Health Care Bill. This Woman Could Stop It.

Elizabeth MacDonough, the Senate’s parliamentarian, will be in the hot seat as she is called upon to decide which provisions of Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s bill draft fit the tight rules that allow for it to be passed without a filibuster.