“Beyond Tuesday’s Medicaid portal outage, Democrats fear there’s an even greater risk to the federal program that lower-income Illinoisans rely on for health care: a federal budget cut that could lead to more than 900,000 people losing coverage.

Republicans in Congress are discussing a plan to slash the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion, which drastically increased enrollment for the program. The cut to Medicaid costs would lower costs for the federal government but increase the cost for states.”

Read the full article: https://www.nprillinois.org/illinois/2025-01-30/gop-plan-to-cut-medicaid-expansion-could-cost-coverage-for-900-000-illinoisans-democrats-say