Iowa’s Republican congressional delegation voted Thursday to advance a massive tax and spending cut bill championed by President Donald Trump. The bill would equate to a $3.7 trillion increase in the national debt,

Iowa lawmakers have passed a bill that would ban Medicaid from covering gender-affirming surgeries and hormone therapy, sending the measure to Gov. Kim Reynolds. State data show Medicaid and CHIP ...

Doctors, nurses, food bank directors and other social safety net providers across Iowa warn major cuts to public health insurance and food assistance programs could lead to crowded emergency rooms, more rural hospital closures,

Iowa Republicans have sent Gov. Kim Reynolds a bill that would require thousands of Medicaid recipients to fulfill work requirements or lose coverage.

A Midwestern affiliate of Planned Parenthood says it will close four of its clinics in Minnesota and four of six in Iowa within a year.

In areas where care access is often already strained, people who are pregnant or giving birth rely on Medicaid coverage at even higher rates.

Some health care workers and other Iowans opposed to proposed cuts to Medicaid and SNAP being discussed by U.S. House Republicans criticized Iowa’s federal delegation as they work on the committees tasked with moving those proposals forward.

The four Republicans representing Iowa in the U.S. House have voted for a massive package that extends the tax cuts Trump signed into law in 2017, eliminates the federal tax on overtime and tips and provides more money for the defense department and Trump’s deportation plans.

Iowa lawmakers are dipping into the state’s budget surplus and Taxpayer Relief Fund to help fill a $900 million gap in the budget for the coming year.