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• in Politics
  Head-Scratching the Paul Ryan Pick
  Why did Mitt Romney make such a bad pick for VP?
  by jimmyzuma / on Aug 16, 2012
• in Politics
  The Supreme Court Rules on the Affordable Care Act
  A victory of sorts but by no means complete
  by jwalk6 / on Jun 29, 2012
• in Politics
  New Tax Rate For The Wealthy: Will It Actually Happen?
  President Obama shoots for the stars with new tax proposal
  by makingsense / on Sep 18, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “medicaid”

 

• CBS Investigates Life Care Centers’ Alleged Medicare Fraud

  
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  Former Life Care Centers of America employees are speaking out against the company, which is currently under federal scrutiny amid allegations it has been overbilling Medicare millions of dollars each year for unnecessary or excessive therapy, reports CBS This Morning (CTM). With more than 30,000 beds, Life Care ...
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• Medicare Drug Program Fails to Monitor Prescribers, Putting Seniors and Disabled at Risk

  
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  An analysis of four years of Medicare prescription records shows that some doctors and other health professionals across the country prescribe large quantities of drugs that are potentially harmful, disorienting or addictive The post Medicare Drug Program Fails to Monitor Prescribers, Putting Seniors and Disabled at ...
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• One of the reasons our health care costs are so high…

  
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  … is because we refuse to standardize prices for treatment.  I think I have told this story before but here it is again.  My French lab partner’s husband had a hernia operation.  It was outpatient and he spent about 4 hours in the hospital, not even enough time to get his gourmet meal.  When she got the bill, ...
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• Strengthening Medicare’s drug benefit: 8 recommendations

  
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  Former government officials, analysts and researchers say Medicare could improve oversight of its Part D drug benefit with these steps: 1. Regularly analyze data to identify high prescribers of drugs that are frequently abused, misused or particularly risky for the elderly. Search for those who prescribe drugs for ...
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• Dangers found in lack of safety oversight for Medicare drug benefit

  
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  Ten years ago, a sharply divided Congress decided to pour billions of dollars into subsidizing the purchase of drugs by elderly and disabled Americans. The initiative, the biggest expansion of Medicare since its creation in 1965, proved wildly popular. It now serves more than 35 million people, delivering critical ...
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• Day of Reckoning in Saline County: Who Said It?

  
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  Thursday night, the Saline County TEA Party hosted a town meeting so that their members could question the Saline County legislators who had supported the “private option.” About five state legislators representing Saline County attended; at least as many legislators from outside Saline County attended as well. ...
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• Does Branstad Want To Kill Medicaid?

  
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  Gov. Branstad opposes Medicaid expansion Over the weekend I was giving some thought to how the Republicans have once more maneuvered Democrats into a situation where all but one option are pretty bad – should Democrats compromise to any meaningful degree on the Medicaid bill that the Iowa House passed then ...
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• 4 Brooklyn hospitals in danger of closing

  
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  From the Daily News : Four Brooklyn hospitals are in danger of closing within a year unless the state gets help from the feds, Gov. Cuomo warned the Obama administration in a letter this week. The state still hasn’t heard whether the feds will sign off on a waiver request from last August that would allow New ...
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• Wos tries to rewrite history, blames Medicaid fiasco on Insurance Commissioner Goodwin

  
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  In keeping with the fine tradition of the McCrory administration, Aldona Wos looks citizens in the eye and lies through her teeth. Thank goodness North Carolina Health News was on the scene. Secretary of Health and Human Services Aldona Wos told an audience in Reidsville today that the decision not to expand the ...
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• Health clinics urge Louisiana lawmakers to expand Medicaid program

  
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  Betty McCree of New Orleans made an appointment at her neighborhood health clinic five years ago, thinking at 60 she should get a mammogram just as a precaution. To her surprise, the test ended up detecting breast cancer. Although she...
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• What Immigrant Moms Want for Mother’s Day

  
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  Like most moms, Mother’s Day for me is an opportunity to celebrate with my children and family, and reflect upon how deeply I cherish motherhood. While supporting our children as they grow and adapt to the world is joyful, we moms face so many challenges along the way — the pain of watching our child fall off a ...
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• Kasich remains optimistic about Medicaid expansion deal

  
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  Gov. Kasich said this week that he would support a ballotinitiative to expand Medicaid, although he is still holding out hope that thestate legislature will pass an expansion bill first (Source: “ Governor patienton Medicaid issue ,” Toledo Blade, May 10, 2013). While leadership in both the Ohio House and ...
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• Wide variation seen in Medicare charges across Ohio

  
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  Newly released federal data on hospital charges showsdramatic variation in costs throughout Ohio (Source: “ Medical charges varywidely across Ohio ,” Newark Advocate, May 9, 2013). The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services made publicthis week the average charges for the 100 most frequently billed services ...
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• Oregon and Medicaid – how the debate has changed

  
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  I’ve spoken to a number of people in the media today about the Oregon Medicaid study. On the whole, they asked excellent questions, and made me think about my own interpretation of the results. They also forced me to think about how I would be speaking about the study if the results had been amazing. Would I still ...
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• More thoughts on the Oregon Medicaid study

  
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  As we explained yesterday , the recent Oregon Medicaid study was simply too small to tell if Medicaid helped control high blood pressure, cholesterol, and diabetes (although it did show Medicaid improved mental health and nearly eliminated catastrophic medical costs). Still, some opponents say that Medicaid ...
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• Medicaid Expansion May Be Forced into Law in Montana

  
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  Newscom The states play an important role in protecting citizens against this flawed federal health care law–from challenging the health care law before the Supreme Court, to resisting efforts to establish Obamacare exchanges or expand a failing Medicaid program, to offering alternative proposals that will ensure ...
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• Executive Spotlight: Stephanie Hill, Lockheed IS&GS President on the Federal Budget and Becoming an Engineer

  
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  Stephanie C. Hill serves as the president of Lockheed Martin’s Information Systems & Global Solutions’ civil product line where she oversees a team of around 10,000 people. She joined the... Read more »
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• Michigan Medicaid expansion: Snyder concerned, Democrats critical of 4-year cap in House GOP plan

  
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  House Republicans on Thursday laid out a unique and far-reaching proposal that would initially expand Medicaid eligibility in Michigan but place a four-year cap on coverage for able-bodied adults.
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• INSTITUTE INDEX: Sequestering our mothers

  
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  The automatic federal budget cuts known as the sequester will have a severe effect on programs serving women in general and mothers in particular -- especially those living in the South. With Mothers Day approaching, we take a by-the-numbers look. read more
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• RACs reclaim $1.37B in overpayments as criticism mounts

  
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  In the first six months of fiscal 2013, Medicare recovery auditors (RAC) collected $1.37 billion in overpayments and returned $65.4 million in underpayments, according to new data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. read more
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