Governors experiment with care options
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Two years ago, the nation's governors were wrestling with exploding health care costs, soaring populations and agonizing choices over how to keep their Medicaid programs afloat.
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Gov. Robert Ehrlich and top legislative leaders emerged from a meeting in the governor&#39;s mansion Thursday, holding out hope of a special legislative session next month to deal with a medical
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In Tennessee, nearly a half-million people are warned they could lose their government-supported health care. In Maine, the move is in the opposite direction - the state is expanding its role
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The California Legislature has offered Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger an opportunity to save thousands of lives and millions of health-care dollars at almost no cost to state government.
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Several states are considering the use of video surveillance in nursing homes, to keep an eye on residents and the care they receive.
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A bipartisan panel of governors has recommended that states expand access to pre-kindergarten and push for early childhood education efforts if they want to properly prepare kids for school.
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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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MIAMI -- When Gov. Charlie Crist (R) took office a year ago, he quickly turned his attention to Florida's deepening hurricane insurance crisis.
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The nation's governors sought help yesterday from Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld in their ongoing fight against proposals in Congress to give President Bush more control -- and governors less -- over the National Guard during disasters.
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In one of the fastest-starting presidential campaigns in history, one group of politicians has not kept pace: the nation's governors.
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By Elizabeth Gudrais, Katherine Gregg  and Scott Mayerowitz; Journal State House Bureau  Energy, the environment and education are among the major initiatives Governor Carcieri offers in his address before the General Assembly.
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The state government is scrambling for a solution to the medical malpractice insurance quandary. While everyone agrees a solution must be found, differences abound as to what that solution might be.
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The state has fine-tuned a distribution network for vaccines, notification procedures, and large-scale aid.
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Union leaders may be thinking about the health system in ways more sophisticated and businesslike than many chief executives.
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State leaders vow to try to extend insurance coverage, though a Dec. 26 US court ruling complicates their efforts.
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The challenges facing New York state&#39;s hospitals, nursing homes and home care agencies in 2005 will be substantial. In Albany, the Health Care Reform Act comes up for renewal in June, presenting
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President Bush's nominee for secretary of health and human services said Tuesday that states could provide health insurance to more people if they had "greater flexibility" to reshape the Medicaid program.