Raul Ruiz: “That's why we got to protect the CHIP programs, the Medicaid programs for the children and families in Kentucky.”

I was a premed [student] at UCLA. … If somebody turned this in, as an undergrad, to their professor at UCLA, they would have received an ‘F,’ sir, an ‘F’ — for the misinterpretation, the falsehoods, the denials, and also citing references…

Republicans just passed their big, ugly law that rips Medicaid by nearly a trillion dollars, adds 15 million people uninsured, and raises costs for everybody. Now, to add insult to injury, they refuse to extend the Affordable Care Act…

For residents of Calexico, this is a direct environmental threat and public health crisis.

American families are facing the largest cut to SNAP in history—$186 billion—and this shutdown is only making hunger worse.