National Review Online (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
S en. Harry Reid needs 60 Senate votes to pass his health-care bill and, as Jonathan Karl of ABC News reported last night , is attempting to bribe Sen. Mary Landrieu of Louisiana to be the 60th vote by shoveling money into her state. His bribe takes the form of an increased federal reimbursement of Louisiana’s Medicaid expenses. Medicaid -- the government health-insurance program...
Cato-at-liberty (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
From the standpoint of Americans who prefer less government, one of the worst developments of the 20th century was the federal subsidization of state and local spending. The result has been bigger government at all levels. Medicaid represents the largest portion of federal money to the states. The states administer their own Medicaid programs, but [...]
Iowa Independent (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Federal stimulus for Medicaid has boosted jobs and incomes in Iowa while meeting the immediate health needs of vulnerable Iowans enduring a recession, researchers with the Iowa Fiscal Partnership reported today. “Increased Medicaid spending has an economic benefit for the state of Iowa far greater than the federal government’s initial investment,” explained David...
BlogNetNews.com/Iowa (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Federal stimulus for Medicaid has boosted jobs and incomes in Iowa while meeting the immediate health needs of vulnerable Iowans enduring a recession, researchers with the Iowa Fiscal Partnership reported today. “Increased Medicaid spending has an economic benefit for the state of Iowa far greater than the federal government’s initial [...]
GraniteGrok (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Guest Post by State Senator Jeb Bradley On Tuesday, October 27 the Republican Leadership in the New Hampshire House and Senate sponsored a SUMMIT ON SPENDING in Concord.There were three excellent presentations from Steve Norton of the New Hampshire Center for Public...
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
Today's state round-up includes coverage of uninsured children in Dallas, the Massachusetts state budget and a Medicaid rate cut in Louisiana. The Dallas Morning News: "Next year, Dallas County will lead the state in the percentage of uninsured children, a rate nearly triple the national average, according to a report Children's Medical Center Dallas is releasing today.
The New Health Dialogue (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
... will reduce the deficit over 10 years) is not the same as the impact reform will have on health spending as a whole, according to the report. The report considers the most recent versions of the House health care bill and the merged Senate bill, which is currently being debated on the Senate floor. The report names several major “channels” through which health reform will affect...
Marathon Pundit (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
... conference agreement systematically undermines the critical protections built into both the medicaid and Medicare programs. Instead of asking for shared sacrifice to achieve budgetary savings, this agreement hands an early Christmas gift to the pharmaceutical and managed care industries at the expense of beneficiaries. We strongly oppose the budget reconciliation conference agreement scheduled...
THE CENTRIST (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
... of avoiding taxes on the middle class to pay for his health care changes, his proposed increase in Medicaid eligibility will have a huge impact on the 39 states whose income cutoffs for the program are below those required in the new federal legislation. All states except for Connecticut, Illinois, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Vermont and...
Tony Phyrillas (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
... of avoiding taxes on the middle class to pay for his health care changes, his proposed increase in Medicaid eligibility will have a huge impact on the 39 states whose income cutoffs for the program are below those required in the new federal legislation. All states except for Connecticut, Illinois, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Vermont and...
Media Matters for America (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
A November 30 Washington Times editorial falsely claimed that an amendment to the Senate health care bill limiting a scheduled reduction to Louisiana's Medicaid reimbursement rate would increase the federal government's contribution to Louisiana's Medicaid obligation. In fact, under the Senate amendment, Louisiana's federal medical assistance percentages (FMAP) rate would reportedly...
Think Progress (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
This afternoon, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) introduced the first Republican amendment to the Senate’s health care reform bill. The so-called ‘motion to commit’ would send the legislation back to the Senate Finance Committee and instruct that committee to remove the $491 billion in proposed reductions from Medicare and Medicaid programs: Madame President, simply put, this [...]
Pharmalot (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
The price Medicaid paid for the bloodthinner rose 12 percent “immediately” after direct-to-consumer ads began in 2001, and those higher costs added $207 million to Medicaid spending in 27 states during the next four years, even as prescriptions rose at a constant rate, according to a study in the Archives of Internal Medicine. Pharmacy data [...]
Exposing Liberal Lies (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
... the House and the Senate bills require that states cover a larger percentage of their people under Medicaid – a joint state and federally funded program. The idea was to force the state to raise their taxes to cover a big part of the health care bill for treating poor people . Since the Feds can simply charge any increase in spending to their already overdrawn bank account,...
California Conservative (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
Democrats face a ticking time bomb in the form of increased state taxes if Medicaid coverage is expanded. If either the House or Senate bills are signed into law, states will face what I’ve called the ‘mother of all unfunded mandates’: About 59 million people are on Medicaid today, which means that a decade from now [...]
