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April 22, 2025 31 mins

The U.S. House and Senate have passed their budget blueprints for the reconciliation process, but now Congress has to write the actual budget. They plan to cut trillions of dollars, including from Medicaid, to pay for tax breaks for billionaires. Nicole Jorwic from Caring Across Generations talks about the budget process and what’s at stake for our health care.

Plus experts including show host, stage 4 cancer survivor and health care advocate Laura Packard from Health Care Voices, Louise Norris from healthinsurance.org, and Diane Archer from Just Care & Social Security Works answer your American health insurance and health care questions on Medicare, the Affordable Care Act, private insurance and more.

This episode includes more about the Braidwood case before the Supreme Court that could affect whether your insurance continues to provide preventative services like cancer screenings with no copay, how tariffs and President Trump's executive order on prescription drugs could affect drug prices, and why could medication at your local pharmacy be more expensive with insurance than without it.

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