Work requirements for Medicaid recipients, hospitals checking citizenship status, food assistance cuts and other measures in the budget passed by the U.S. House would rearrange the U.S. social safety

As late-night negotiations on the House Republicans’ budget reconciliation bill pushed an expected vote to Thursday, long-term care providers are hoping for some kind of Hail Mary.

HARRISONBURG, Va. (WHSV) - The ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ was passed by the House of Representatives, which included cuts to Medicaid. The Congressional Budget Office predicts nearly 14 million people will lose coverage by 2034, and would cut $715 billion in Medicaid reduction over 10 years.

Republicans in the U.S. House of Delegates advanced a mega bundle of bills designed to shave billions from the federal budget, which Democrats and advocates have said will take resources from the nation’s most vulnerable citizens and hinder social safety nets.

The winds of change are sweeping across the Medicaid landscape — and for those of us working in skilled nursing facilities, standing still is no longer an

A House-passed reconciliation bill would reduce federal funding to states that provide state-funded health insurance to people in the U.S. illegally, resulting in 1.4 million people losing coverage, according to a preliminary Congressional Budget Office analysis.

The numbers appeared tied to estimates on the number of people who may be cut from Medicaid under U.S. President Donald Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill."