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Taxpayers will pay more under Scott Walker health plan, study says
... report from the Legislative Fiscal Bureau immediately became part of the debate over Walker's budget proposal for Medicaid programs, which is currently before lawmakers on the Joint Finance Committee. The budget panel is rewriting Walker's bill and ... Comment?
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Some health experts are skeptical of Medicaid plan
As North Carolina's Medicaid officials tour the state for input about reform, they're likely to get some skepticism. Comment?
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State budget plan may face challenges in House
... sending over to the House, and I hope the House can match it," she said. This bipartisanship continued with the Medicaid expansion plan approved by the Senate late Thursday. "It took both the Democrats and Republicans to get it done," Pancrazi ... Comment?
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... providers that treat the uninsured. While voluntary, drug makers agree to participate in 340B to do business with Medicaid, a federal and state program that helps provide health care for the poor, elderly, disabled and blind. In Memphis, ... Comment?
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Confused By Health Care Marketplaces? Help Is Coming
May 8, 2013 - Now that the federal government is building health insurance Marketplaces in 34 states, the question is: Will customers come? The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services , the government division overseeing the roll out of the new Marketplaces, is getting ready. Comment?
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Medicaid arguments don't quite add up
Republicans must be getting nervous about their refusal to expand Medicaid in Montana. Comment?
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CBO's Medicare estimates on par with White House figures
... with the chained CPI for indexing certain major benefit programs, such as Social Security and Medicare, but not Medicaid. While the regular CPI updates a market basket of goods every two years, a chained CPI would evaluate consumer spending habits ... Comment?
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Pro&Con: Doctors are fleeing a system that doesn't value their worth
... positive" about the future of American health care, and more than a third planned to restrict their Medicare or Medicaid practice. Doctors are demoralized and feel powerless. Obamacare never addressed physicians' most pressing concerns - ... Comment?
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LePage: MaineCare broke in three weeks without new budget
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Gov. Paul LePage blasted legislative Democrats for inaction in a Friday letter, saying the Maine Department of Health and Human Services will run out of money to pay Medicaid providers in three weeks without action on a new state budget. Comment?
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Rule lets Medicaid fraud-control units tap federal funds for data-mining
With states bracing for rapid enrollment growth in their Medicaid programs , HHS' inspector general's office has given state-based fraud-control units more power to use sophisticated data-analysis tools to recover an estimated $60 million in the next decade. Comment?
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Bloomfield Hills Financial Event 6/4/13
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... served. Cover major portions of the law including changes to Medicare, health insurance exchanges, the expansion of Medicaid and how these factors may impact your healthcare coverage Tuesday, June 4, 2013 Registration: 6 p.m.-6:30 p.m. Panel ... Comment?
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Fallin urges Okla. Legislature for health care fix
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... targeted program run with state dollars only." The federal government notified Oklahoma it would no longer provide Medicaid funding to operate Insure Oklahoma, which provides health insurance to about 30,000 low-income workers in the state. The ... Comment?
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Whatever happened to those dastardly budget deficits?
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... Boehner and House Republicans really want are excuses to cut federal spending, particularly on programs such as Medicaid and food stamps that support low-income Americans. But those cuts are unpopular, so Republicans frame fiscal debate to make such ... Comment?
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HHS Secretary Sebelius Bypassing Congress By Passing The Hat
... Obamacare. , Catholic Health Association of the United States, which insisted during negotiations over PPACA that "Medicaid and Medicare Disproportionate Share Hospital (DSH) payment reductions should only be triggered if anticipated reductions in ... Comment?
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Obama 'Going Bulworth' Wouldn't Give Him Power Over Republicans
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... up the nomination of eminent health care policy leader Dr. Donald Berwick to head the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Obama ultimately put him in the job as a "recess appointment" arguably not what the founders meant when they created ... Comment?
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Governor Proposes Plan To Save Insure Oklahoma Program
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... targeted program run with state dollars only." The federal government notified Oklahoma it would no longer provide Medicaid funding to operate Insure Oklahoma, which provides health insurance to about 30,000 low-income workers in the state. The ... Comment?
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Colorado Children's Campaign shares 2013 "Kids Count" report
... by private health insurance declines -- 69 percent in 2000 to 61 percent in 2010 -- public programs like CHP+ and Medicaid are providing a buffer. The number of children under public coverage has risen from 13 percent in 2000 to 23 percent 2010. In ... Comment?
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Oregon Health Study Gives an Inaccurate Picture of Medicaid
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... on the economy (which was used to support fiscal austerity) fits this description but now we also have the Oregon Medicaid study. Earlier this month, this study found that the Medicaid program which provides health insurance to poor people didn't ... Comment?
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Why You Should Feel Sorry for the IRS
... Care Act, the president's signature piece of legislation: It must collect taxes both to fund the expansion of Medicaid and to determine who needs subsidies to purchase insurance. Also, the agency is now responsible for policing the country's growing ... Comment?
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Slide Show: 11 best charts for yield-seeking investors
... cast a pall of uncertainty over hospitals. Among the biggest fears: the hit from looming cuts to Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement rates as the government moves to squeeze costs out of the system. For John Loffredo, co-manager of the $970 million ... Comment?
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