Funding cuts and regulatory changes could radically reduce Medicaid, the largest program providing medical and health-related services to low-income people, as well as Medicare, federal health insurance for people 65 or older, and some under 65 with certain disabilities or conditions.
Trump's administration is looking for federal employees it can easily fire. BI looked at the biggest federal employers and their salaries.
About half of respondents said the nation should spend more on Medicaid and Medicare — a potential challenge for the Trump administration looking to cut costs.
Experts suggest that most Americans will not experience immediate changes in their out-of-pocket health care expenses.
President Donald Trump began his second administration with a blitz of policy actions to reorient U.S. government priorities.
An economy expert says short term, senior citizens will continue to carry the high costs of prescription drugs. but President Trump's long-term action could benefit the economy and eventually drive those prices down. 76-year-old Deana Deck is on a fixed income which makes affordable prescriptions a necessity.
The Democratic National Committee ( DNC) is going on the offense against President Donald Trump just two days into his second term, blasting the 45th and 47th President over what they say is a plan to follow through on the controversial Project 2025 agenda, including by cutting Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.
Karen Clay's job as a health care advocate is to gather stories for Florida Voices for Health. She's on Medicare and is concerned after one of Trump's first actions was to rescind a Biden executive order that sought to cap some generic drug prices at $2 a month, among other plans.
An executive order designed to lower the cost of prescription drugs was one of the measures rescinded by President Donald Trump on Monday.
Build the wall!'' from his 2016 campaign has become creating ''the largest mass deportation program in history.'' Trump has called for using the National Guard and empowering domestic police forces in the effort.