MedPage Today October 7, 2025
ME/CFS and long COVID patients must qualify as ‘medically frail’
As our nation grapples with the future of HHS, there is a silent train heading for a major wreck — the estimated 10 million Americans who stand to get kicked off Medicaid or Affordable Care Act plans and lose their healthcare coverage.
Every disability and human rights organization I know stands in direct, unwavering opposition to the devastating Medicaid cuts signed into law as part of the “Big, Beautiful Bill.” Experts all over the country pleaded with Congress to protect Medicaid — health insurance for the most vulnerable Americans. Yet, those pleas were ignored.
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is now in the untenable position of deciding who is...







