Governors Ask Bush Not to Cut Medicaid
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The nation's governors on Wednesday urged President Bush not to shift additional Medicaid costs to the states in his effort to reduce the federal deficit.
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President Bush encouraged governors Monday to support his call for changing the tax code to help more people buy private health care insurance, but did not address their pleas to increase funding for a health care program that insures millions of children of the working poor.
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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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Educators nationwide are protesting a Bush administration move to curtail hundreds of millions of dollars in Medicaid funding for disabled students that could force some schools already in budget straits to trim health services or cut back instructional programs.
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Gov. Eliot Spitzer challenged leaders of two powerful health care groups over ads that criticize his proposal to cut costs.
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The nation's governors urged President Bush on Wednesday to spare states the costs of Medicaid in an effort to reduce the federal deficit.
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The Bush administration came out today in opposition to Democratic proposals to hold down the scheduled 17 percent increase in Medicare premiums next year, saying that
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While all the details have yet to be worked out, Gov. Phil Bredesen says his plan is to set up a Medicaid program with specific limits on benefits, such as the number of adult hospital stays
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The nation's governors are mounting a bipartisan lobbying effort to stave off new federal limits on Medicaid.
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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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Everyone knows that doing away with TennCare would be bad for our health. Governor Bredesen claims that we cannot afford to provide this health care.
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Despite charging that too many state insurance regulators have become &quot;industry captives,&quot; Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal is rejecting calls for federal intervention in the regulation of insurance and instead urging more aggressive state
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The numbers cited by Gov. Eliot Spitzer on the stateâs $46 billion-a-year Medicaid program donât tell the whole story.
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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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President Bush criticized Sen. John Kerryâs plans for health care and medical liability reform on Thursday, saying the result would be even higher costs and more federal involvement.
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Michael Leavitt, President Bush&#39;s choice to be secretary of Health and Human Services, may have to cut billions of dollars from the government&#39;s mammoth health programs for
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Private insurers have told the Bush administration that they will not expand their role in Medicare if they have to serve large multistate regions.