Governors Appeal to Bush on Medicaid
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The nation&#39;s governors urged President Bush yesterday not to shift Medicaid costs to the states to reduce the federal deficit.
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Give the government&#39;s flu plan time to work, US Secretary of Health Tommy Thompson told local physicians and patients Monday during a Bradenton visit to stump for medical liability reform and the re-election of President Bush.
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The nation&#39;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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CONCORD, NH -- Federal health officials posed several questions to the state Thursday about proposed Medicaid changes. Health authorities want to know how the state would set limits on care, how it would decide
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State efforts to transform the nationâs health care system appear to be on a collision course with the Bush administrationâs latest budget proposal.
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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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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.
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The nation's governors sought help Thursday from Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld in their ongoing fight against proposals in Congress to give President Bush more control &#151; and governors less &#151; over the National Guard during disasters.
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FORT MYERS, Fla., Aug. 17 -- President Bush dispatched two Cabinet secretaries and more federal money to this hard-hit state on Tuesday as tens of thousands of people flooded disaster relief hotlines, seeking everything ...
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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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New Health and Human Services  Secretary Mike Leavitt on Tuesday called for changes in the  Medicaid program for the poor, including an end to overpayment  for some prescription drugs.
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President Bush on Saturday urged Americans to help the neediest among them by volunteering to care for the sick, the elderly and the poor in a Christmas day call for compassion.
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Michael O. Leavitt, the secretary of health and human services, called Tuesday for sweeping changes in Medicaid.
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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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LAKE WALES, Fla. - President Bush, touring hurricane-battered Florida on his way to Thursday night's presidential debate, pressed Congress on Wednesday to approve his latest request for emergency federal aid for storm victims, this time for more than $7 billion...
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SACRAMENTO  As an alternative to importing low-cost drugs from Canada, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger&#39;s administration is calling for a sweeping new program to offer drug discounts to uninsured, low-income California residents.
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America's newest governor, Democrat Christine Gregoire of Washington, chided President Bush on Saturday for shortchanging the states and urged the former Texas governor to remember their financial needs.