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Medicaid stories: 34 news summaries

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Mayo Clinic Turns Away Medicare, Medicaid Patients

Hospital praised for efficiency treats increasingly wealthy population

Oct 13, 09 7:44 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Mayo Clinic, which has gotten plaudits from the White House for its low spending on Medicare and Medicaid patients, is turning some of those patients away. The clinic will stop accepting Medicaid patients from Nebraska or Montana at its main Rochester, Minnesota, campus, and will no longer offer primary... More »

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health care • Medicare • Medicaid • health care reform • Mayo Clinic

Baucus Fleshes Out New Health Reform Compromise

To curb costs, plan would offer stripped-down coverage, add fees to  health industry

Sep 8, 09 9:05 AM CDT
(Newser) - With President Obama’s much-anticipated health care speech to Congress on the horizon, the head of the Senate Finance Committee has rolled out a new proposal for a compromise bill, the New York Times reports. Sen. Max Baucus’ plan would offer scaled-down coverage to some, and, to cover the $880... More »

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health insurance • legislation • Medicaid • Senate Finance Committee • health care reform • speech • Max Baucus • President Obama

Rural States Would Gain Most From Health Reform...

...but their vehement residents want it least

Sep 2, 09 10:44 AM CDT
(Newser) - With some of the highest percentages of uninsured citizens, rural states like Wyoming and Iowa stand to benefit the most from health care reform—but they’re also home to its most vocal detractors, the Los Angeles Times reports. Such states tend to have lower personal incomes, more small businesses... More »

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health care • Medicare • Medicaid • health care reform • uninsured • town hall meeting • rural America

OPINION

Health Care Is a Public Good; It's Time Dems Explain Why

'The health of each of us depends on the health of the rest of us'

Sep 2, 09 7:16 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Democrats are in danger of losing the health care reform battle over an argument "that a novice debater would have no trouble putting down," writes Thomas Frank for the Wall Street Journal. Reformers need to directly address the role of government in health care, Frank writes, and... More »

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health care • health insurance • Medicare • health care industry • Medicaid • health care reform • Obama administration

OPINION

 How the Dems Can 
 Save Obamacare 

Keep plans private, creating gov't care 'by proxy'

Aug 28, 09 9:41 AM CDT
(Newser) - Amid “widespread national revulsion,” Obamacare as it stands “is dead,” but the Democrats can revive it if they’re willing to make some key concessions, writes Charles Krauthammer—a nonpracticing physician in addition to pundit—in the Washington Post. What they must do:
  1. Dump the
... More »

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health insurance • Medicare • Medicaid • health care reform • Obama administration • President Obama • public option

(Newser) - The RNC has joined the fracas over health care reform with a proposed “seniors’ bill of rights” that guards against Medicare cuts, ABC News reports. “Our seniors have really come under fire in the last few weeks,” says RNC chair Michael Steele—who backed Medicare cuts as... More »

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RNC • Medicare • Medicaid • Democratic National Committee • health care reform • DNC • seniors • Obama administration • President Obama • Michael Steele • Republican National Committee

OPINION

 To Cure Health Care, 
 See This Doctor 

Mayo Clinic boss could be reform's 'Petraeus'

Aug 20, 09 10:25 AM CDT
(Newser) - To fix health care, we need a commander like Gen. David Petraeus: “a professional who can break through the political chaff and describe a strategy for reform that can unite the country,” writes David Ignatius in the Washington Post. He nominates Mayo Clinic CEO Dr. Denis Cortese, who’... More »

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health insurance • Medicare • Medicaid • health care reform • Mayo Clinic • David Ignatius • President Obama • Denis Cortese

OPINION

 Obama's Health 
 Plan Will Crack  
 Whip on States 

States mishandle Medicaid, get bullied by private firms: doctor

Jul 29, 09 12:25 PM CDT
(Newser) - Doctors nationwide are “outraged” by President Obama’s health care plan, but “I call it progress,” writes one Missouri physician for Salon. The reform would take oversight out of the hands of states, which seemingly specialize in “lax regulation of private insurers” and poor handling of... More »

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health care • health insurance • physician • Medicaid • health care reform • state spending • state governments • health insurers • President Obama

OPINION

Gingrich: Waxman Lets Health Care Fraud Flourish


Jul 24, 09 10:52 AM CDT
(Newser) - America’s health care system is riddled with so much fraud that eliminating it would pay for universal coverage, but Congress doesn’t seem to care, writes Newt Gingrich in the Washington Examiner. He singles out as his particular villain Henry Waxman, chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee.... More »

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Newt Gingrich • Henry Waxman • Medicare • House of Representatives • Medicaid • health care reform

Obama Seeks Another $313B in Health Cuts

He wants to reduce Medicare payments
to hospitals

Jun 13, 09 9:19 AM CDT
(Newser) - In an effort to pay for his ambitious health care plans, Barack Obama today proposed another $313 billion in cuts to government health care spending over the next decade, the Wall Street Journal reports. That brings the total cuts proposed to nearly $950 billion, just shy of the $1... More »

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Barack Obama • health care costs • hospitals • Medicare • drug companies • universal health care • Medicaid • health care reform

OPINION

To Cut Deficit, Rein in Health Costs: Orszag

Budget director makes White House's case
for cutting expenses

May 15, 09 10:35 AM CDT
(Newser) - With the future of Medicare and Social Security in the headlines, the Obama administration is jumping at the chance to push its health care reform agenda. Up today: budget director Peter Orszag. "Slower growth rate in overall health-care spending would help to promote and sustain a slowdown in... More »

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health care costs • Medicare • budget • Medicaid • national debt • GDP • Obama administration • Peter Orszag • White House budget director

OPINION

Obama's Secret Plan to Control Your Healthcare

President serves candy now, spinach later: Krauthammer

Apr 24, 09 1:48 PM CDT
(Newser) - President Obama is going to need more than a “cash-cow carbon tax” to fund his goals of “nationalized health care” and “federalized education,” writes Charles Krauthammer of the Washington Post. Obama’s going to have to slash Social Security and Medicare. But his current health... More »

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Barack Obama • entitlement programs • Medicare • universal health care • Medicaid • Charles Krauthammer

Back-Room Consensus: Require Health Insurance for All

Kennedy leads meetings with industry

Feb 20, 09 11:55 AM CST
(Newser) - A series of unprecedented back-room meetings among the biggest players in health care is close to a consensus: Any new legislation will require that every American have insurance, the New York Times reports. The next part, of course, is trickier: figuring out how to enforce it, how to make it... More »

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health care • health insurance • insurance companies • business • Ted Kennedy • health care industry • Medicaid • labor unions • health care reform

 Mayors, Guvs 
 Jockey for Piece 
 of Stimulus Pie 

Many have budgets on hold until plan is finalized

Feb 16, 09 12:40 PM CST
(Newser) - As the stimulus bill becomes law this week, state officials across the country are competing for their share of federal largess, the New York Times reports. Complex rules govern how money is doled out, and states are still catching up. “This is all rather daunting,” said the director... More »

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North Carolina • Medicaid • Federal government • economic stimulus package • Obama administration • financial crisis • President Obama • state budgets

 Tsunami in Medicaid Need 
 Batters Broke States 

Demand from newly unemployed leaves states looking to stimulus package for help

Jan 22, 09 7:01 AM CST
(Newser) - A surge in demand for Medicaid is draining state coffers just when they can least afford it, a New York Times survey of 40 states reveals. Demand ballooned by up to 10% in many states last year as people lost their employer-sponsored health care with their jobs, and officials believe... More »

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health care • health insurance • Medicaid • unemployment • health insurance premiums • economic stimulus package

ANALYSIS

Education at Heart of Obama Stimulus Plan

$140B in 2-year plan would take other pressures off states

Jan 13, 09 3:43 PM CST
(Newser) - In its current form, Barack Obama’s 2-year economic stimulus plan—currently pegged at $775 billion—will channel some $140 billion to education, Politico reports. As Congress hammers out its plan, changes are likely, but education and Medicaid look set to be major beneficiaries. States will see major block grants,... More »

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education • Barack Obama • Congress • school • Medicaid • Pell grants • economic stimulus package

Recession-Battered States Slash Medicaid

Governments lower payments, cut add-ons to health program

Dec 26, 08 7:14 AM CST
(Newser) - As states across the country struggle to cope with staggering budget shortfalls, 19 of them have cut back on Medicaid, reports the Washington Post. The states, along with DC, are lowering payments to hospitals and nursing homes, ending coverage for less common treatments, and booting some citizens out of the... More »

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health care • health care costs • Medicaid • recession • state governments • Obama administration

Medicaid Spends Millions on Drugs FDA Never Approved

FDA loophole allows potentially-lethal drugs to stay in market

Nov 23, 08 8:02 PM CST
(Newser) - Taxpayer dollars still pay for unapproved prescription drugs that have sold for decades and are linked to dozens of deaths, the AP reports. In the past 5 years, at least $200 million has been paid for drugs like cold and pain medications that were never approved by the FDA, yet... More »

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FDA • Health and Human Services • children • Medicaid • death • prescription drugs • cold medicine • hydrocodone • cough medicine

Senate Dem Unveils Broad Health Reform

Baucus proposal would guarantee insurance for all citizens

Nov 12, 08 7:21 AM CST
(Newser) - Barack Obama made health care reform a key plank of his campaign, but even before he's been inaugurated Congressional Democrats are introducing legislation to transform the system. Leading the charge is Max Baucus, the Montana senator who leads the finance committee. His plan, which he'll introduce today, guarantees health insurance... More »

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health care • Barack Obama • Congress • Medicare • Medicaid • health care reform • Max Baucus • President Obama

ANALYSIS

McCain Health Plan Would Shrink Medicare, Medicaid

Cuts would help fund tax credits for buying care on open market

Oct 6, 08 12:05 PM CDT
(Newser) - John McCain’s health care plan, based on tax credits, would be funded by cuts to Medicare and Medicaid, which analysts say could amount to some $1.3 trillion over a decade. The move would allow McCain to uphold his pledge of a “budget neutral” health strategy, the Wall ... More »

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health care • Barack Obama • John McCain • Medicare • Medicaid • tax credit • Election 2008

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