Tenn. may dissolve end state health care
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Gov. Phil Bredesen announced Wednesday that he plans to dissolve TennCare, cutting up to 430,000 people from the financially troubled expanded Medicaid program.
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The nation could be plunged into a potentially bitter debate over a successor to the ailing Chief Justice if he is to leave at the end this term, which concludes at the end of June.
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Amendment 3, if passed, will have a devastating effect on patients who have been injured as a result of medical malpractice and will substantially do away with civil accountability for bad physicians and health care providers -- making Florida&#39;s health
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Jackson, Miss. -- Bending to legal pressure, the state agreed Thursday to restore benefits to more than 50,000 Mississippians who were dropped from the Medicaid rolls to save money.
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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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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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ALBANY, New York  - New York Gov. George Pataki on Wednesday said closing and consolidating extra hospitals was "the right thing" for the cash-starved health care system, adding he hoped the legislature would agree.
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By Murphy, Tom  Gateway Medical Resource Alliance, a niche health care benefits company, will shut down Aug. 30, more than 4 month after losing the lone Indianapolis hospital in its network.
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Tennessee Governor Phil Bredesen announced this afternoon at a Nashville news conference that he has begun the process of pulling the plug on TennCare.
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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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A doctors group says closing the unit will violate the Civil Rights Act and disenfranchise minorities. By Matt Krasnowski. A doctors group trying to block the closing of Martin Luther King Jr.
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The drumbeat of bad news about TennCare moved to a routine state departmental budget hearing yesterday afternoon, while negotiations closed to the public continued in an effort to save the pricey health-care program.
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By Behzad Raghian | October 8, 2004 | Page 2. LOS ANGELESâ public health care system is spiraling deeper into chaos after last monthâs announcement that the County Board of Supervisors plans to close the
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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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Nashville (WVLT/AP) - Governor Bredesen officially announced the end of the TennCare Program at a news conference in Nashville, Wednesday.
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Who pays for health care may turn out to be the biggest rift between President George W. Bush and state governors now holding their winter meeting.
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HARTFORD, Connecticut  - Four Connecticut state lawmakers proposed on Tuesday a $900 million program to bring health-care to the state's poor and uninsured, weighing in on a growing national debate over health-care reform.