Ind. hospitals anxiously await Medicaid ruling
EVANSVILLE, Ind. (AP) — It probably sounded like a good trade-off at the time: Hospitals would give up $155 billion in Medicare and other government payments to help provide more money for a Medicaid...
View ArticleMedicaid bills move to Miss. Senate for debate
Mississippi senators are considering bills designed to keep Medicaid alive and funded beyond this weekend, when the program has been on track to expire. The Senate action comes Friday, the second day...
View ArticleFacing A Tight Deadline, Long-Term Care Panel Holds First Meeting
The Commission on Long-Term Care held its first meeting Thursday on Capitol Hill with some members acknowledging that their late start adds to their challenges in offering Congress recommendations on...
View ArticleHHS Seeks To Address Religious Employers’ Concerns In Contraceptive Coverage...
The Obama administration issued Friday governing contraception coverage in the sweeping 2010 health care law that officials said more clearly respond to concerns from religious groups that object to...
View ArticleBig Changes Ahead For Those Buying Own Health Insurance
Under Affordable Care Act, premiums may increase for young people, but insurers must take all comers, broaden benefits and cap out-of-pocket costs. Comment () Tweet EDITOR'S NOTE _ This story is the...
View ArticleWide swath of Mississippi could remain uninsured
Tens of thousands of uninsured residents in the poorest and most rural parts of Mississippi may be unable to get subsidies to buy health coverage when a new online marketplace opens this fall because...
View ArticleMississippi Dems: We Were ‘Bamboozled’ On Medicaid
With just two days to spare, and with plenty of political drama, Mississippi lawmakers approved a plan late Friday to renew Medicaid for another year. The joint federal-state program, which provides...
View ArticleBusiness Groups, Consumer Advocates, Politicians, Policy Makers React To...
Opponents of the federal health law, especially business groups and conservatives, were quick to praise the decision by the Obama administration to delay enforcing the employer mandate provision by...
View ArticleA big Medicaid gap looms in Obama health care law
Nearly 2 in 3 uninsured low-income people who would qualify for subsidized coverage under President Barack Obama's health care law may be out of luck next year because their states have not expanded...
View Article>Health insurers fear young people will opt out
MIAMI (AP) — Dan Lopez rarely gets sick and hasn't been to a doctor in 10 years, so buying health insurance feels like a waste of money. Even after the federal health overhaul takes full effect next...
View ArticleU.S. health insurers fear the young will opt out in 2014
MIAMI -- Dan Lopez rarely gets sick and hasn't been to a doctor in 10 years, so buying health insurance feels like a waste of money. Even after the federal health overhaul takes full effect next year,...
View ArticleInsurers worry that young people will opt out of health insurance,...
MIAMI — Dan Lopez rarely gets sick and hasn’t been to a doctor in 10 years, so buying health insurance feels like a waste of money. Even after the federal health overhaul takes full effect next year,...
View ArticleHealth insurers fear young people will opt out
MIAMI • Dan Lopez rarely gets sick and hasn't been to a doctor in 10 years, so buying health insurance feels like a waste of money. Even after the federal health overhaul takes full effect next year,...
View ArticleObamacare's challenge: Persuading young and healthy to buy insurance
In this Wednesday, June 19, 2013 photo, Emily Nicoll smiles for a photo in Coppell, Texas. For millions of unemployed and underemployed 20-somethings, health care has been out of reach. Now sweeping...
View ArticleWorking Poor Losing Obamacare as States Resist Medicaid
Rose Ruiz collects $8 an hour cooking, cleaning, checking the oxygen tanks and changing the diapers for a 67-year-old diabetic confined to a studio apartment on the south side of Austin, Texas. Ruiz,...
View Article5 points to know about the health care overhaul
Still a little hazy about the health care overhaul? You have plenty of company. About half the people surveyed this spring by the nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation felt they didn't have enough...
View Article5 points to know aboutthe health care overhaul
Still a little hazy about the health care overhaul? You have plenty of company. About half the people surveyed this spring by the nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation felt they didn't have enough...
View ArticleEmployers To Get An Extra Year To Implement Health Law Requirement On Coverage
The Obama administration Tuesday announced a one-year delay in the Affordable Care Act’s requirement that businesses with 50 or more employees offer coverage to their workers or pay a penalty....
View ArticleNFL's Help Sought On Promoting Obamacare Insurance Plans
Top federal health officials are in talks with the National Football League to promote the health law’s insurance marketplaces that begin enrolling people Oct 1. "The NFL is enthusiastically engaged …...
View ArticleStates forgo billions by opting out of Medicaid expansion
By Tami Luhby @Luhby July 1, 2013: 5:31 AM ET Not all states are participating in Medicaid expansion. NEW YORK (CNNMoney) Nearly half the nation's states are opting not to expand Medicaid to all of...
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