Tenn.'s Retreat On Medicaid  Points to Struggle
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They staged a die-in here Wednesday night -- to mourn the demise of one of the nation's most innovative health insurance programs for the working poor and to dramatize what advocates say will be the human toll of a bitter government decision.
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Governor Bredesen today pulled the plug on TennCare -- the expanded Medicaid program that covers 1.3 million residents. Calling TennCare &quot;a noble and worthwhile initiative,&quot; Bredesen
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Home care provider will feel the pinch from lower Medicare reimbursement.
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More than four hundred thousand East Tennesseans on expanded TennCare coverage, are waiting to find out if the coverage is going away for good.
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Joseph Glazier has seen the cost of his phone service double this year and his utility bills could do the same. He cannot ride the bus for free anymore. Subsidized prescriptions for his ailing eyes and ears have long since stopped.
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Jane Fumich and her team visit Cleveland's churches, public housing holiday parties and ward club meetings trying to give away the government's money &#151; without much success. A year after the Medicare overhaul became law, the Bush administration is struggling to get the poor signed up for a drug discount card that comes with &#36;1,200 in aid between now and 2006.
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It looks as though Tennessee taxpayers won&#39;t have TennCare to kick around much longer. The scapegoat of budget woes almost since its inception, TennCare is a $7.
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AUSTIN - Almost half of the Texas children who left the state&#39;s health insurance program as a result of budget cuts found coverage elsewhere, about a third of them through Medicaid, according to a survey the Health and Human Services Commission released
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Some Iowans may cut back on their coverage, and the state faces having to pay more for Medicaid, officials say. Sharply higher Medicare premiums announced last week by the Bush administration will have a double
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Gov. Phil Bredesen announced yesterday that the state plans to dissolve TennCare. Up to 430,000 people will be cut from the financially troubled supplemental Medicaid program barring a reprieve.
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With the price of gasoline and home heating oil no longer comfortably affordable, the benefits of living in rural New Hampshire have also become burdens for many people.
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Tennessee's health care plan for the state's most vulnerable residents, once hailed as an example for the nation, is on the ropes.
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Gov. Phil Bredesen announced Wednesday that Tennessee planned to dissolve its financially troubled program expanding Medicaid, a decision that would cut as many as 430,000 people from state health care rolls.
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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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PHILADELPHIA - The state averted disaster by winning federal approval of more than $1 billion in Medicaid funding over the next four years, but there could be more problems in the future, Gov.
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Gov. Phil Bredesen announced Wednesday that the state plans to dissolve TennCare, cutting up to 430,000 people from the financially troubled supplemental Medicaid program barring a last-minute reprieve.
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Sometimes it takes one doctor's persistence to help a desperate patient find relief.