Tag: state governments
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Baucus sees a health-reform ‘train wreck,’ fearing insurance exchanges won’t be ready
Max Baucus (J. Scott Applewhite, AP) Senator Max Baucus, who as Senate Finance Committee chair helped write the health-care reform law, has become the highest-ranking Democrat to publicly voice concerns...
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Feds letting Arkansas privatize Medicaid expansion; idea could spread like wildfire, as in Florida, but cost questions remain
Arkansas has turned heads nationally with its preliminary plan to expand Medicaid using the private insurance market, showing that the Obama administration is willing to give states more flexibility than...
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If Republican governors are agreeing to expand Medicaid after lobbying by hospitals, can Beshear be far behind?
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News Florida Gov. Rick Scott’s surprising announcement that he would use federal health-care reform money to expand the Medicaid program to households earning up to...
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Kasich of Ohio is fifth Republican governor to accept Medicaid expansion; he and others cite need to protect rural hospitals, poor
Several Republican governors have decided to expand Medicaid under federal health-care reform, saying their conservative principles were outweighed by a need to protect their state’s rural hospitals and low-income people. Yesterday, the...
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Oregon may show the way for Kentucky in drug treatment
In facing up to its need for more drug-treatment facilities, Kentucky could learn some lessons from Oregon, Courier-Journal reporter Laura Ungar writes in the third and last part of her...
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Kentucky’s pill-mill problem and law to fight it get national airing, with issues of patient privacy versus public health debated
Kentucky’s “pill problem” went more public Thursday when David Hopkins, head of the state’s prescription drug monitoring program, told the National Conference of State Legislatures the true extent of our prescription...
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Rural states with declining immunization rates have increasing incidence of whooping cough
In the state that once had the highest immunization rate, Vermont’s medical community is not so proud of anymore. Fewer people are vaccinating their children in the nation’s most rural...
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Are fallacies about health reform becoming accepted wisdom? Former New York Times editor Bill Keller says he fears so
“A number of fallacies seem to be congealing into accepted wisdom” about the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, former New York Times editor Bill Keller writes for the paper....
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Governors in both parties undecided on whether to expand Medicaid; seeking answers to several questions
There is hesitation among governors on both sides of the aisle regarding whether or not to expand Medicaid, which would cover millions more Americans under the program for the poor...
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Former head of Massachusetts health exchange says it’s better to offer fewer, well-defined plans than set general criteria
With Kentucky stakeholders discussing their options to set up a state-run health insurance exchange — something Gov. Steve Beshear said last week he intends to do if the Affordable Care...