Feb 17 Exclusive: States Facing Massive Medicaid Budget Crunch ul.list-state {list-style:none; font-size 11px; } li.list-state {padding:0px; margin:0px; line-height100%; font-size:11px;} Jump to States Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Dist. Of Col. Florida… Continue reading
Feb 17 As Ariz. Seeks Smaller Medicaid Rolls, Cash-Strapped States Look to Mimic This week, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said that Arizona could drop 250,000 childless adults from the state's Medicaid program. The decision is being watched closely in statehouses all over the country, where governors facing massive budget deficits… Continue reading
Feb 11 Health Reform Watch: De-funding Efforts Begin, Berwick on the Hill GOP De-funding Effort to Start Next Week Republican lawmakers said Wednesday that they plan to use a spending bill that they'll bring to the House floor next week in their first effort to de-fund the health reform law. Continue reading
Feb 04 Health Reform Watch: In Courts and Congress, Health Reform Faces Challengers By Lea Winerman The health reform law faced major challenges this week in the courts and in Congress. The big news of came Monday in Florida, when U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson became the second judge to declare the law's individual mandate… Continue reading
Feb 04 What If Health Reform Had No Mandate? Politicians, Experts Weigh In In the wake of a second ruling from a federal judge this week who found the insurance mandate in the health reform law to be unconstitutional, there's a growing amount of chatter in the health policy world about whether… Continue reading
Jan 28 Health Reform Headlines: Administration Lays Groundwork for Health Care Fight President Obama said he's open to efforts to "tweak" the new health care law, but said he was "not willing to just refight the battles of the last two years." In a speech to Families USA, a consumer advocacy… Continue reading
Jan 21 Health Headlines: What’s Next for the Reform Law? The Road Ahead for Health Reform House Republicans fulfilled their campaign promise to challenge last year's landmark health reform legislation, voting 245-189 to approve a repeal measure. But now Republicans are gearing up for a longer campaign. They plan… Continue reading
Jan 19 House Votes to Repeal Health Reform Law The House of Representatives voted Wednesday to repeal last year's landmark health reform legislation -- a mostly symbolic vote since the Democratic-led Senate is unlikely to pass repeal and might not even consider the measure. The final House vote was… Continue reading
Jan 19 Health Reform Debate Revisited: What’s the Tone in a New Congress? House Republicans are delivering on a campaign promise that helped fuel their many of election victories last year by debating a measure to repeal last year's health reform law. A vote should come later Wednesday. Here's Betty Ann Bowser's… Continue reading
Jan 17 Poll: Support for Health Care Repeal Drops As the House of Representatives gears up to vote this week on a proposed repeal of the health care reform bill, public support for the move is falling. Only 25 percent of people polled now support repealing the health care… Continue reading