Patient advocates called the OBBBA changes a “sweetheart deal to Big Pharma” and emphasized that these provisions forced low‑income individuals to choose between essentials like rent and medicine.

A new push on Capitol Hill aims to roll back what Democrats are calling a "sick tax" on vulnerable patients. Ashonti Ford ...

Patient advocacy groups plan to rally Tuesday in Washington to oppose changes to Medicaid, and Vermont Sen. Peter Welch is ...

Senator Welch’s Repealing the Trump Sick Tax Act would repeal the “sick tax” imposed by President Trump and Congressional Republicans’ so-called One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which forces Medicaid ...

Some lawmakers have called for it to be used to determine COLA for Social Security payments, but would it make much of a difference?

The administration, which is set to cut the subsidy for the drug benefit program by 40%, says it will negotiate with insurers to ease the financial strain to the millions of seniors on the plan. Plus, ...

Sen. Peter Welch (D-Vt.) spoke Tuesday afternoon on recently introduced legislation targeting President Trump’s “sick tax,” a ...

Welch's bill is a response to a part of the 'Big Beautiful Bill' that introduces a mandatory out-of-pocket fee whenever ...

Originally published July 22 on IdahoCapitalSun.com.Idaho Health and Welfare director Alex Adams, who was nominated by ...