U.S. Curtailing Bids to Expand Medicaid Rolls
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The Bush administration is restricting the ability of states to expand Medicaid in an effort to prevent them from offering coverage to families of modest incomes.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc. will next year   curtail the options that it offers newly hired workers for   health-care coverage, promoting a low-premium, high-deductible   plan, The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.
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U.S. states that have looked to Canada to help their residents win steep discounts on prescription drug prices are turning to Europe for the same deals because the Canadian government is considering shutting off the southbound flow.
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Fearful that President Bush plans to shift more Medicaid costs to the states, the nation&#39;s governors are mounting a bipartisan lobbying effort to stave off new federal limits on the program.
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AFTER EXTENDING healthcare coverage to more than 150,000 previously uninsured residents over the past year, Massachusetts health reform took a turn for the worse this month with the Patrick administration's proposal to limit the state's Free Care Pool.
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Advocates for the poor are criticizing Tennessee&#39;s plan to curtail its supplemental Medicaid program, including raising premiums and requiring doctors to use the cheapest alternatives for treatment.
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Georgia will stop enrolling new children in its health insurance program for low-income families because federal funds are running out, officials said Thursday.
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Gov. George Pataki's advisers are arguing over whether he should embrace efforts to limit the federal Medicaid program, which could help alter New York's costly program.
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Gov. Phil Bredesen announced Monday that he will drop 323,000 adults from the state's expanded Medicaid program to save about &#36;1.7 billion a year, but will preserve health coverage for children.
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President Bush yesterday vetoed a $35 billion expansion of a popular children's health insurance program, a move that left him as politically isolated as he has ever been and had even Republican allies questioning his hard-line strategy.
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President Bush yesterday rejected entreaties by his Republican allies that he compromise with Democrats on legislation to renew a popular program that provides health coverage to poor children, saying that expanding the program would enlarge the role of the federal government at the expense of pr...
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WASHINGTON Â President Bush and other critics of a $35 billion spending increase for children's health insurance say they'll support expanding coverage to families of four making as much as $62,000 a year, but they want to limit states' ability to go beyond that level.
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New Jersey officials asked a federal judge yesterday to block new Bush administration rules that would make it harder for states to enroll middle-income kids in a popular government-subsidized health insurance program for children.
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WASHINGTON - The Bush administration violated the law by allowing private insurers to limit choices of some patients in a small trial program of managed health care under Medicare, congressional investigators said.
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A federal advisory panel recommended sweeping changes to Medicaid to rein in costs, including greater use of managed care for the sickest recipients.
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The program is apparently in Tennessee&#39;s future because Gov. Bredesen plans to scrap TennCare to save money. [ TennCare to dissolve ]. It&#39;s been 10 years since Tennessee ran a Medicaid program.
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DENTISTS' PLEA: Dentists say reducing Medicaid dental benefits would hurt the needy and cost states more in the long run because patients may seek more costly emergency treatment.