Topic: Nebraska
New estimate challenges report that health care reform will see Neb. Medicaid costs soarA report commissioned by the state forecasting that federal health care reform will increase the state's Medicaid costs by hundreds of millions of dollars over the next decade was ...
Nebraska's Cornhusker Kickback gets the boot, while TN, ND make hay in revised health billBye bye, Cornhusker Kickback. Hello, special treatment for Tennessee and North Dakota.Democrats unveiling revisions Thursday to their health care overhaul bill decided to kill the extra $100 million ...
Sen. Ben Nelson asks for controversial Nebraska Medicaid deal to be withdrawnSen. Ben Nelson of Nebraska is asking Senate leaders to eliminate a controversial Medicaid deal for his state in the health care bill.The moderate Democrat, who provided the crucial 60th vote ...
Congressional wheeling and dealing has always been the way to get things done in D.C. Symbolic back scratches, Filibuster IOUs, Bridges to Nowhere --- they all have their political roots in closed-door chats between Senators, usually just ahead of a major vote. ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - More than a dozen U.S. state attorneys general visited Washington on Wednesday threatening to sue the U.S. government if the so-called " Cornhusker Kickback," a special subsidy offered to Nebraska, is included in pen1ding healthcare reform legislation.The subsidy, which ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama is discussing ways to help U.S. states cover costs that are destined to rise under pending healthcare reform legislation, his press secretary said on Monday.Many governors had protested a special funding allocation for Nebraska in the ...
Calif. Gov. Schwarzenegger criticizes vote buying in Democratic health care billCalifornia Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger says concessions made to Nebraska Sen. Ben Nelson to win his vote on the health care overhaul bill were a " rip-off" for his state and is urging ...
Sen. Nelson says he wants Medicaid deal for all states, won't stand for special Nebraska dealSen. Ben Nelson said Thursday he has asked Democratic leadership to extend to all states the extra Medicaid funding promised to Nebraska in the health care reform ...
SC attorney general, counterparts, scrutinize dealmaking on US Senate health care legislationThe top prosecutors in seven states are probing the constitutionality of a political deal that cut a funding break for Nebraska in order to pass a federal health care reform bill, ...
It must go to Nebraska Senator Ben Nelson, the last holdout on Obamacare. The highest-profile Democratic hold-out on Obamacare, Nelson said last week, My vote is not for sale. He obviously meant that in the sense that hed be righteously indignant at ...
