Robert King
@rking_19
Reporter for @politico covering Medicare, Medicaid and ACA. Formerly @dcexaminer and @fiercehealth. Send tips to [email protected]. DM for Signal
BURCHETT: former holdout says administration revealed new executive action to pressure states to enforce keeping undocumented immigrants off of Medicaid.
News - House GOP leaders CANCEL Thursday votes after they lost full control of the floor over Epstein crisis Last votes before lawmakers leave for recess will be 3:30pm tomorrow
'Over the next decade, the megabill Trump signed on July 4 would increase the federal deficit by $3.4 trillion and cause 10 million people to lose health insurance, the Congressional Budget Office forecasts.' @JAscholtes @rking_19 @ben_guggenheim politico.com/news/2025/07/2…
New from me and @RuthReader in @POLITICOPulse today: CMMI is on a hiring spree looking for about 100 people to help with an aggressive rollout of new payment models. politico.com/newsletters/po…
Scoop: Several outside lawyers recently warned President Trump that a new strategy to remove Fed Chair Jerome Powell over the central bank’s $2.5 billion renovation project is on shaky legal ground, people familiar told me. w/ @vtg2 @jake__traylor politico.com/news/2025/07/1…
New from @sophie_gardnerJ: Tribal leaders are starting to have doubts if HHS Secretary RFK Jr. will improve quality of health for tribes after Trump's budget only marginally boosted funding to IHS. politico.com/news/2025/07/1…
OMB director Russ Vought told reporters that PEPFAR cuts will not be included in the rescissions package
Hawley bill - Repeal provider tax cuts and state directed payment changes that could hit Medicaid - $50B more to rural hospitals "Now is the time to prevent any future cuts to Medicaid from going into effect" hawley.senate.gov/hawley-introdu… Reconciliation passed 2 weeks ago
New in Pulse today: Health insurers are facing a spate of federal policy changes that threaten widespread coverage losses. The "inevitable result" is higher premiums, insurers say. politico.com/newsletters/po…
"High among his goals, he said, is reducing reimbursements to hospitals through a site-neutral payment system that pays the same rate whether a procedure is done at a clinic or doctor’s office."
NEW: @RepArrington talks priorities for Reconciliation 2.0 bill this fall. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Hospitals lost bigly in the big beautiful bill. But the war may not be over. New from me @davidalim and @amandalanchu on how hospitals strike back. politico.com/news/2025/07/1…
New: Tariff letters are going out today to a grab bag of U.S. trading partners including Japan, South Korea, Myanmar and Kazakstan. It's a list of countries the admin believes it hasn't "received meaningful engagement from," a WH official told me. politico.com/news/2025/07/0…
I wrote about a very 2025 DC dillemma: An Elderly Lawmaker’s Staff Keeps Walking Back Things She Tells Reporters. Should They Keep Quoting Her? politi.co/4eHIHPq
The megaLAW has a big coda: A sharp cliff for tax cuts and safety-net restrictions that future Congresses will have to fight over. @ben_guggenheim politico.com/news/2025/07/0…
New from me and @kelhoops: Why republicans can't quit Medicaid cuts. politico.com/news/2025/07/0…
After Johnson signs the bill YMCA starts blaring over the speakers.
Big question for me is how hospitals regroup after the loss on provider taxes. The provider tax cut doesn't start to phase down in 2028. I am sure they will push to get an extension in the coming years. But will they be successful?
Five hour long Jeffries 'magic minute' politico.com/live-updates/2…