Why Americans With Disabilities Fear Medicaid Cuts The Senate’s health-care bill includes changes to the federal program, raising concerns among those who rely on it. By Jeremy Raff ...

Knudson, a wheelchair user with a rare joint and muscle disorder called arthogryposis multiplex congenita (AMC), said her ...

The budget reconciliation bill Congress narrowly approved in early July will cut $1 trillion of federal spending from ...

Medicaid is a government health insurance program for people with low incomes and adults and children with disabilities. Medicare, by contrast, generally covers those 65 or older .

Medicaid is a lifeline for the 70 million people enrolled in the program, including 15 million people with disabilities. Their access to care is now in jeopardy because members of the Senate have ...

But in Miami-Dade, Florida’s most populous county, the Alliance for Aging, a nonprofit that helps older and disabled people apply for Medicaid, saw requests for help jump from 58 in March to 146 ...

The case has triggered alarm among millions of disabled Americans who depend on Medicaid for legally mandated services that allow them to remain integrated in society.

Medicaid’s home and community-based services are designed to help people like Saa, who have disabilities and need help with everyday activities, stay out of a nursing facility.

States are required to provide Medicaid services in the most integrated setting appropriate, based on the 1999 Supreme Court Olmstead decision, which ruled that unnecessarily segregating people ...