Economic Woes Accelerate Medicaid Spending
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Medicaid spending grew about  one-third from 2000 to 2003 as job losses and other economic  woes made more people eligible for the government-run health  insurance program for the poor, a new study said on Wednesday.
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Fraud in the &#36;300-billion-a-year Medicaid program is widespread and the federal government is not doing enough to combat it, congressional investigators said in a report released Wednesday.
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U.S. spending on prescription drugs,  hospital care and other health services is expected to double  to $4.1 trillion over the next decade, up from $2.1 trillion in  2006, a government report released on Wednesday found.
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State budget pressures threaten to undo gains in health insurance coverage for children and the poor, according to two surveys released Monday.
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Excessive eating, smoking and drinking by Americans was partially responsible for rising health care costs causing a drag on the U.S. economy, Treasury Secretary John Snow said on Tuesday.
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A mushrooming number of poor people who need medical care will push up the state&#39;s Medicaid costs another $119 million next fiscal year.
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In the past four years, Americans have spent a growing portion of their paychecks on health care and for the most part gotten less for their money, according to government figures and several independent studies.
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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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Health insurance may be out of reach  for more Americans as medical costs rose faster than worker  income in the first half of the year, according to a closely  watched survey released on Thursday.
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Health care costs were a bigger drain on American wallets this year than in 2000, with 14.3 million workers spending more than a quarter of their income on medical care, according to a study by Families USA.
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Low-income patients covered by Medicaid have more complications and higher death rates after colon cancer surgery than patients with private insurance, a U.S. study suggests.
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Growing number of U.S. families beset by medical problems are exceeding lifetime benefits caps.
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The costs of caring for elderly  people with diabetes, a growing population, are threatening to  overwhelm the system designed to pay for their medical care,  according to a new analysis of Medicare claims.
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The federal government today launched a program that provides increased Medicaid payments to doctors that use electronic health records.
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The quality of health care in the United States is steadily improving, with more patients getting recommended treatments, but there are a few notable gaps -- and costs are skyrocketing, according to a report released on Tuesday.
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The US poverty rate rose, incomes stagnated, and more Americans went without health insurance last year, even though economic growth surged, according to Census Bureau data released yesterday.
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The multi-billion-dollar health care programthat helps fund everything from medical colleges to insurance for poor children may run a shortfall by the end of the state fiscal year.