Medicaid – Page 11 – Healthy Skeptic

Jul 05 2011

Washington Post

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

An oft-cited statistic that 22 percent of state budgets is being gobbled up by Medicaid, the state-federal program that provides health coverage for the poor and the disabled – let’s dig a little deeper into the numbers.

Jul 05 2011

FoxBusiness

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As healthcare costs for the poor soar across the United States, perhaps no state will feel the loss of federal stimulus money more than Florida.

Jun 24 2011

2011 Potpourri XXV

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments

Summer waxes but no heat-induced torpor can stop us from producing our Potpourri of health snapshots, including the health care and health care coverage of young adults; malpractice incidence; Massachusetts…

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Jun 22 2011

New.Yahoo

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President Barack Obama’s health care law would let several million middle-class people get nearly free insurance meant for the poor, a twist government number crunchers say they discovered only after the complex bill was signed.

Jun 21 2011

ThinkProgress.org

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Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker To Cut Medicaid Without Public Hearings

Jun 17 2011

Washington Post

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Indeed, one of Medicaid’s problems is that it is, if anything, too cheap. It pays doctors much less than private insurance or Medicare. The result? Doctors don’t like to take Medicaid patients.

Jun 16 2011

New York Times

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As Number of Medicaid Patients Goes Up, Their Benefits Are About to Drop

Jun 16 2011

New York Times

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Children with Medicaid are far more likely than those with private insurance to be turned away by medical specialists or be made to wait more than a month for an appointment, even for serious medical problems, a new study finds.

Jun 15 2011

Washington Post

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Faced with severe budget problems, Republican governors are escalating their fight against federal rules requiring states to maintain current levels of health-care coverage for the poor and disabled.

Jun 10 2011

Governing.com

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Is Medicaid in its current form sustainable? And if not, is welfare reform the right model for change?

Jun 09 2011

More Data Available from CMS

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CMS has proposed a rule to implement a PPACA provision allowing access to extracts of provider-level Medicare data to evaluate performance, primarily on quality measures. This is a good first…

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Jun 07 2011

NPR.org

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Audio: While the federal government pays more than half of the bill, the share the states pay consumes 22 percent of the average state’s budget. That’s more than they pay for education, transportation or other large budget items.

Jun 02 2011

New York Times

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The Obama administration prohibited the State of Indiana on Wednesday from carrying out a new state law that cuts off money for Planned Parenthood

May 27 2011

New York Times

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As part of a plan to cut costs, Arizona has proposed imposing a $50 fee on childless adults on Medicaid who are either obese or who smoke.

May 26 2011

New York Times

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

The Obama administration is raising serious objections to a new Indiana law that cuts off state and federal money for Planned Parenthood clinics providing health care to low-income women on Medicaid.

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