Medicaid expansion saves lives and saves money, proponents said — an estimated $27 million the last biennium, according to Rep. Ed Buttrey, sponsoring one bill to continue the program. “Our program is a budget savings to the general fund,

Democrats in the Georgia Senate have attracted support of a handful of Republicans in their quest to expand Medicaid access in the state.

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,