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Posted by: Kate Blocher on Jul 16, 2010
Everyone is feeling the pinch of the recession, but none more so than the states facing severe budget deficits. Many states are heading into the fiscal year, which started July 1, with strained budgets.
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Category: Health Care Costs,Medicaid,Uninsured Americans
Posted by: Colleen Haller on Jul 13, 2010
Dr. Donald Berwick was sworn in today as the new Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Without a leader since 2006, the appointment of Dr. Berwick is a long-awaited addition to the federal agency. Dr. Berwick is widely known as a pioneer in the field of health care quality
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Category: Affordability,Medicaid,Medicare
Posted by: Erin Kelly on Jun 24, 2010
When it comes to implementing health reform, it turns out the old saying “the early bird gets the worm” sums it up pretty well.
Posted by: Erin Kelly on Jun 02, 2010
This week, the Kaiser Family Foundation released a new state-by-state analysis showing that the federal government will assume all but a very small percentage of the cost to expand Medicaid, dramatically reducing the number of insured Americans at a bare minimal cost to the states.
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Category: Affordability,Health Care Costs,Medicaid
Posted by: Mark Fisher on Apr 30, 2010
Many Americans believe that Medicaid is available to all citizens with low incomes. The assumption is that anyone who is "poor" can qualify for the program. Unfortunately, it's just not that simple.
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Category: Health Care Costs,Medicaid,Uninsured Americans
Posted by: Erin Kelly on Mar 11, 2010
We may say it a lot, but it bears repeating one more time: We are closer than ever to enacting comprehensive health reform. So close, in fact, we can almost taste it over here at Stand Up for Health Care.
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Category: Affordability,Medicaid,Uninsured Americans
Posted by: Julia Eisman on Oct 29, 2009
The House health insurance reform bill sets the gold standard for legislation that deserves to be adopted this year.
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Category: Affordability,Congress,Medicaid
Posted by: Ron Pollack on Oct 19, 2009
We should make every effort to secure health coverage for all Americans. However, instead of playing a numbers game of what percentage of the American public needs to have health insurance for it to be considered universal health coverage, we should focus on the key measures that need to be taken by Congress to move us towards the universal goal. At least two sets of improvements to the pending bills should receive top-priority attention.
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Category: Affordability,Medicaid
Posted by: Ron Pollack on Sep 21, 2009
The Medicaid expansion contained in the various health reform bills is a key and laudable component of expanding health care coverage. It makes abundant sense to establish a nationwide Medicaid eligibility floor of 133 percent of the federal poverty level - eligibility that would cover three-person families, as an example, with annual incomes below $24,352.
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Category: Affordability,Medicaid,Uninsured Americans
Posted by: Mark Fisher on Sep 04, 2009
The opposition to health reform has been busy this August. They have diverted our time and resources away from pushing for an end to pre-existing conditions, health insurance rationing, and rising premiums. Instead, we had to spend time debunking "death panels," "socialism," and so-called "government-funded abortions." But as the season changes from summer to fall, so will the conversation.