Lawmakers and state officials say portals inaccessible for one of largest health insurance programs in US<\/p>\n
Medicaid payment portals are down following the Trump administration\u2019s decision to freeze trillions of dollars in federal funding, an effort by the new president to root out \u201cwokeness\u201d in the federal government, multiple sources have reported.<\/p>\n
A health insurance program for lower-income individuals, Medicaid is run jointly by the states and the federal government. With the Children\u2019s Health Insurance Program (Chip), Medicaid insures more than one in five Americans, or about 79 million people, nearly half<\/a> of whom are children. Medicaid also pays for roughly two in every five births in the US.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Lawmakers and state officials say portals inaccessible for one of largest health insurance programs in US Medicaid payment portals are down following the Trump administration\u2019s decision to freeze trillions of dollars in federal funding, an effort by the new president to root out \u201cwokeness\u201d in the federal government, multiple sources have reported. A health insurance … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}