{"id":777390,"date":"2026-07-22T07:04:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T07:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/777390\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T07:04:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T07:04:18","slug":"democratic-senator-proposes-expanding-medicaid-to-cover-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/777390\/","title":{"rendered":"Democratic senator proposes expanding Medicaid to cover children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"DRUEESJ7NRELLECQKVNDABAVS4\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Sen. Andy Kim (D-New Jersey) introduced legislation Tuesday proposing a new approach to improving health care coverage: expanding Medicaid to cover all children regardless of their household income.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"CFORLUVY7RDCNJV3UJ7LOAQZTQ\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">The proposal, which Kim calls MediKids, is unlikely to go anywhere soon, with Republicans in control of Congress and President Donald Trump in the White House. But it represents a potential way forward on a priority issue for Democrats if the party regains power in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sen. Andy Kim (D-New Jersey) introduced legislation Tuesday proposing a new approach to improving health care coverage: expanding&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":777391,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[97,252,253],"class_list":["post-777390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health-care","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/777391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}