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The Republican health‑care agenda for 2024 centers on that favor block grants, work requirements, and more limited subsidies. Analysts describe this set of priorities as a mix of regulatory fixes—like...
Republican 2025-era proposals from Project 2025, the Republican Study Committee (RSC) and other GOP plans do not offer the same federal guarantees for people with pre‑existing conditions that the Affo...
Republican lawmakers and allied plans have advanced multiple federal measures and policy moves in 2025 that aim to restrict abortion access nationwide — including a House bill called the “Life at Conc...
The Democratic/administration FY2025 proposal increased behavioral-health funding: SAMHSA sought about $8.1 billion and the President’s budget asked for expanded mental‑health and opioid initiatives i...
Republicans propose a mix of market-oriented reforms, health savings account expansions, and structural changes to Medicaid and entitlements as alternatives to extending Affordable Care Act (ACA) prem...
Republican claims that Democrats demanded funding for “illegal aliens” in the continuing resolution (CR) tied to the recent government shutdown compress a mix of partisan messaging and differing polic...
Democrats broadly pledge to defend and in some cases expand Social Security and Medicare, proposing revenue increases on high earners and rejecting benefit cuts, while Republicans—especially conservat...
Private insurers in the United States cannot legally deny coverage or charge higher premiums to people with preexisting conditions under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), and this protection remains in f...
Repealing the ACA’s pre‑existing condition protections would, by design, allow insurers to to people with chronic conditions, driving up their healthcare costs and out‑of‑pocket burdens in 2025. Analy...
Several Republican lawmakers and policy groups have publicly proposed raising the eligibility ages for Social Security and Medicare or restructuring benefits, while the Trump administration has pursue...
The available reporting shows there is no single clear-cut list of concessions that Republican lawmakers uniformly secured in the recent continuing resolution (CR) negotiations; instead the deal refle...
House Republicans in 2023–2024 discussed replacing the Affordable Care Act’s enhanced premium tax credits but produced ; discussion centered on rolling back enhanced subsidies, restructuring them, or ...
Congressional reform efforts have produced durable institutional changes—major rewrites like the Legislative Reorganization Acts of 1946 and 1970 and targeted laws such as the Budget Act and War Power...
Donald Trump’s peace efforts produced concrete diplomatic wins—normalization agreements between Israel and several Arab states that the State Department and White House labeled historic and stabilizin...
Republican 2025 health plans under discussion would not uniformly state “insurers may always surcharge people for pre‑existing conditions,” but multiple Republican proposals and House GOP legislation ...
State laws in 2025 still largely mirror federal protections that bar insurers from denying coverage or charging higher premiums for preexisting medical conditions in major markets: the ACA and related...
Multiple 2025 Republican bills and proposals cited in available sources would tighten eligibility or administration of Social Security benefits for noncitizens and could restrict access: notably H.R. ...
Republican proposals in 2025 — including Project 2025, the Republican Study Committee blueprint, and House budget plans — would convert Medicaid’s open-ended federal matching into fixed block grants o...
Mike Johnson is a Republican congressman from Louisiana’s 4th District who became the 56th Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives on October 25, 2023 . He is a social conservative, a lawyer by t...
Executive Summary Republicans have proposed a range of state‑level health‑care *innovations*—from returning insurance regulation to the states and offering block grants/per‑capita Medicaid payments to...