Brett Guthrie chairs the Committee of Energy and Commerce, which has been tasked with finding $880B in spending cuts under a House budget resolution.
"Medicaid is the lion. It's the behemoth. It is eating up our budgets, it is growing astronomically," State Rep. Jason Nemes (R-Middletown) said.
In 2010, Democratic President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act gave states the right to expand their Medicaid programs to include the “working poor” — able-bodied adults who earned up to 138% of the federal poverty line. In Kentucky, that means up to $20,784 a year for an individual or $43,056 for a household of four.
Will state employees have to return to the office? What will become of Gov. Andy Beshear’s pardon powers? This legislative session could decide.
A bill that would create a Kentucky version of the Department of Government Efficiency, known as DOGE, is moving forward in the state Capitol.
An investigation by the Attorney General’s Office of Medicaid Fraud and Abuse Control led to five people being indicted in the Jefferson Circuit Court. The investigation began when the office received a complaint about possible fraud.
In its 60 years, Medicaid has swelled from a small program that provided medical care to poor Americans receiving cash assistance to the largest source of public insurance. It covers 72 million Americans, about one-fifth of the population. It pays for about half of all nursing care in the United States, and 40 percent of all births.
US Military's largest and most powerful heavy lift helicopter, the CH-53K King Stallion, is truly the king of the skies. CNN’s Kaitlan Collins caught up with DJ Daniel, the 13-year-old cancer survivor honored by President Donald Trump during his address to Congress.