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Here's what you need to know this week.
1. Trump's $4.1 trillion budget: 9 healthcare takeaways
President Donald Trump's first full budget proposal included $3.6 trillion in spending cuts to balance the budget in the next decade. Cuts include those that would affect Medicaid, the Children's Health Insurance Program, National Institutes of Health and CDC.
2. Trump administration requests another delay in ACA subsidy lawsuit
President Donald Trump's administration and the House of Representatives on Monday asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia to further delay a lawsuit over ACA insurance cost-sharing subsidies, reports Politico.
3. CBO scores House-approved AHCA
The Congressional Budget Office released its score on the American Health Care Act Wednesday, finding it would reduce the federal deficit significantly but increase the projected number of uninsured Americans by about 82 percent over the next 10 years.
4. GOP senators begin drafting healthcare bill
Senate Republicans began drafting their version of a healthcare bill to repeal and replace the ACA after the House narrowly passed the American Health Care Act May 4.
5. Montana lawmaker charged with misdemeanor assault for 'body-slamming' reporter who asked about GOP health plan
Greg Gianforte of Montana, who yesterday was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, faces charges of misdemeanor assault after allegedly slamming a reporter from The Guardian to the ground, according to the Bozeman Daily Chronicle.
6. Lawsuit: Nurse raped while held hostage at Illinois hospital
Two nurses who were held hostage earlier this month at Geneva, Ill.-based Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital by a Kane County Jail inmate have filed a lawsuit against the county, a corrections deputy and the security firm used by the hospital, according to the Chicago Sun-Times.
7. Rep. Tom MacArthur, lawmaker behind pivotal AHCA amendment, resigns from caucus leadership
Rep. Tom MacArthur (R-N.J.), the lawmaker who authored the amendment that made the AHCA more palatable to the House GOP, resigned May 23 from his post as co-chairman of the moderate Tuesday Group caucus.
8. California hospital at risk of losing Medicare, Medicaid funding
Lompoc (Calif.) Valley Medical Center is at risk of losing its Medicare and Medicaid contracts following a CMS survey that found several deficiencies, according to the Lompoc Record.
9. Annual price tag for California's proposed universal healthcare program: $400B
Proposed California legislation calling for a universal healthcare system would cost about $400 billion per year, according to a preliminary state review.