Topic: Medicaid
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Medicaid, a government health insurance program designed to help the poorest of the poor, is giving people unprecedented access to doctors and also improving their finances, a study co-authored by the Harvard School of Public Health has found.The study, ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Hospitals in the U.S. territories see more deaths after heart attacks, heart failure and pneumonia than the states, according to a study out Tuesday.Researchers said the healthcare gap is not explained by patients being sicker or hospitals ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Proposed cuts in the Medicaid healthcare program for the poor could have a broad impact on the elderly and disabled and family members who care for them, an advocacy group said on Thursday.Ron Pollack, who heads the healthcare advocacy ...
Republicans have gambled on a risky course to deny President Barack Obama reelection in 2012: deep long-term spending cuts that could cost them critical support from elderly voters.Republicans owed their November 2010 rout of Democrats in large part to Americans over 65, ...
President Barack Obama's Republican foes in the US House of Representatives muscled their politically risky budget to passage Friday, calling it the cure to out-of-control government spending.In an almost perfect party-line vote, lawmakers voted 235-193 to approve the non-binding blueprint crafted by ...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - With Illinois facing a growing pile of bills from Medicaid providers that is adding to its fiscal woes, the state's finance authority board on Tuesday gave preliminary approval to a program to speed up payments.Under the program, the state ...
PHOENIX (Reuters) - Arizona Governor Jan Brewer has restored funding for transplants as part of the new state budget, officials said on Thursday.Brewer had cut the transplants to around 100 people in the desert state on October 1 last year, as part ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Republican proposal for sweeping changes to Medicare and Medicaid healthcare programs appears unlikely to pass Congress, but could electrify the debate over the budget going into next year's elections.House of Representatives Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan is set ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans on Tuesday proposed $6 trillion in spending cuts over a decade, including a politically risky overhaul of government-run health programs, while also slashing tax rates as part of their 2012 budget blueprint.The budget proposal comes as Congress and ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Republican budget plan due to be unveiled on Tuesday would cut $5.8 trillion from U.S. spending over the next 10 years, a congressional aide familiar with the proposal said on Monday.The plan, which would take effect when the ...
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MEDICAID CUTS
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Medicaid Cuts Fallout
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Alabama Dental Fight
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