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• SBSun: Schwarzenegger cool to health bill

  
  iePolitics.com — Authority: 152
  Rebecca Kimitch, Staff Writer Posted: 12/23/2009 10:16:35 PM PST Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has long championed national health care reform, but now that it is finally advancing, he is raising concerns about the $3 billion annual price tag he says it will cost California. But reform supporters, including Sens. ...
  2 days ago

• LATimes: Schwarzenegger to seek federal help for California budget

  
  iePolitics.com — Authority: 152
  Facing another huge deficit, the governor wants $8 billion or threatens massive cuts in social services. He also plans to renew push for offshore oil drilling. By Shane Goldmacher and Evan Halper December 23, 2009 Reporting from Sacramento – Facing a budget deficit of more than $20 billion, Gov. Arnold ...
  3 days ago

• Appeals Court accuses California lawyers of lying to ram through Medi-Cal cuts.

  
  SF Gray Panthers — Authority: 125
  San Francisco and Sacramento Gray Panthers are plaintiffs in this suit against the State of California for cutting its paymeents to doctors, dentists, pharmacists, clinics, and adult day health centers, even though California’s payments to these providers and the ratio of providers to patients are among the lowest ...
  4 days ago

• { 9th Circus } Court accuses state lawyers of lying

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  SAN FRANCISCO -- A federal appeals court bluntly accused the Schwarzenegger administration and state Attorney General Jerry Browns office on Monday of lying about its defense of cuts in Medi-Cal fees. Lawyers in Browns office committed a "clear violation" of State Bar rules that prohibit attorneys from misleading ...
  5 days ago

• Schering-Plough Pays $21M To Settle Fraud Claim

  
  Pharmalot — Authority: 545
  The deal resolves allegations the drugmaker “deliberately inflated” the price of its Albuterol asthma med and other drugs, causing California’s Medicaid (Medi-Cal) program to overpay millions of dollars in pharmacy reimbursement, according to California attorney general Jerry Brown. “With healthcare costs ...
  1 week ago

• I was suspended as a patient from a cancer clinic after an angry confrontation with a clinician there …..?

  
  The Word Is Hope — Authority: 138
  My heart failed during a surgery three weeks ago and all sorts of thing went wrong (my heart is healthy – it was due to slapdash abdominal insufflation_The upshot is that in a fit of pique a clinician and I exchanged strong words and I subsequently called the clinical director and told him I was [...]
  1 week ago

• Medicare, Medi-Cal, Medicaid: the Public Health Programs that Already Exist

  
  OB Rag Blog — Authority: 133
  Theres a lot of confusion, we find, about government or public health care programs. Medicare, Medi-Cal, Medicaid ... just what are the differences?Well, some would argue that Medicare actually helps adult people, whereas Medi-Cal really is better for children and prenatal mothers than the general population it ...
  1 week ago

• iePolitics: Massive internal fraud in San Bernardino County social services arm

  
  iePolitics.com — Authority: 152
  News is emerging this weekend related to a massive internal fraud, a portion of which was recently uncovered within the agency responsible for the delivery of San Bernardino County’s social services programs. iePolitics has learned that hundreds of thousands of dollars in funds meant to provide aid for the ...
  1 week ago

• Medi-Cal Facts

  
  Healthcare Economist — Authority: 426
  California’s Medicaid program, known as Medi-Cal, is the largest in the nation.  The California Health Care Foundation offers some interesting facts about the program  in this report . For instance: In just two years, Medi-Cal’s share of the state’s General Fund spending increased from 17% to 19%. If not ...
  2 weeks ago

• Commissions and Feinstein: The Next Threats to Medicare and Social Security

  
  SF Gray Panthers — Authority: 125
  Commissions and Feinstein: The Next Threats to Medicare and Social Security Four years after Bush tried to privatize Social Security and cut its benefits, there is new clamor to restructure Medicare and Social Security and to cut their future costs. This time it is led by Democrats, and California Senator Dianne ...
  2 weeks ago

• Maternity Health Insurance Plans – How to Get Low Cost Maternity Health Insurance

  
  fresh healthy body — Authority: 158
  The joy of pregnancy can soon be replaced by worry when the medical bills associated with a healthy pregnancy come trickling then marching in. These bills will include pre-natal costs like doctor visits, ultrasound, and diagnostic tests, delivery costs ranging from $6,000 to $13,000 and post-natal costs for doctor ...
  2 weeks ago

• Gray Panthers sit in Pelosi’s office for Single Payer

  
  SF Gray Panthers — Authority: 125
  Demonstration outside the sit-in for single-payer at Pelosis office About a dozen single payer activists, including three Gray Panthers, sat in at Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s SF office on November 3rd, demanding she honor her promises on single payer. Pelosi had promised that the House health reform bill, HR 3962, would ...
  4 weeks ago

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