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Illinois hospitals recognize the state faces a budget crisis without easy fixes.

The federal government would create a public health-insurance provider under a health-care reform plan agreed to Thursday by a group of key Senate Democrats, including Sen.

Reviewing records of clients that receive free prescription medication are Ingrid Gifford, director of Southwest Oklahoma Community Action Groupa s Rx for Oklahoma program, left, and Amy Reyes, Rx coordinator.

President Obama reiterated his call to adjust Medicare reimbursement rates as a part of his broad push for health reform in a meeting with nine reporters, including writers from local newspapers, Wednesday.

Main Category: Medicare / Medicaid / SCHIP Also Included In: Seniors / Aging Article Date: 02 Jul 2009 The state Division of Senior and Disabilities Services is working this summer in coordination with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to improve its compliance with federal standards in the areas of Home and Community Based Medicaid ...

Americans agree on health care. Ask them, "Who should pay for it," and they all answer, "Not me." But follow up with, "Who, then?" and you have a fight on your hands.

By NATE JENKINS Associated Press Writer LINCOLN, Neb. -- Nebraska has been wrongfully denying Medicaid coverage to hundreds of low-income residents whom state officials argued did not work enough to comply with a welfare-to-work program, a judge has ruled.

The big news of the morning is a new version of the Senate HELP Committee's health-care reform bill that seems to have everyone confused.

Main Category: Pharma Industry / Biotech Industry Also Included In: Medicare / Medicaid / SCHIP ; Seniors / Aging ; Health Insurance / Medical Insurance Article Date: 02 Jul 2009 - 4:00 PDT The drug industry began ramping up its lobbying efforts in 2003, when Medicare Part D began, and now is targeting Democrats.

The percentage of Americans with private health insurance has hit its lowest mark in 50 years, according to two new government reports.About 65 percent of non-elderly Americans had private insurance in 2008, down from 67 percent the year before, according to preliminary data released Wednesday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and ...

After cancer patient Debby Smith expressed frustration, President Obama hugged her during a forum yesterday in Virginia.

Medicaid's role in health care is emerging as a flashpoint, exposing policy and political rifts not only between the two parties but also among Democrats themselves.

With 60 million enrollees, Medicaid dwarfs other insurance programs, including its cousin, Medicare, which covers 44 million elderly and disabled people.

A new budget year starting in North Carolina brings with it several new laws. The fiscal year starting Tuesday doesn't yet have a state budget, but from this day state government takes over completely the Medicaid cost-sharing payments that counties paid for decades.

Congress has started in earnest its effort to enact President Obama's promise for universal health care.

Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius June 29 announced that the administration will rescind all or part of three Medicaid regulations that were previously issued and delay the enforcement of a fourth regulation.

Gov. Haley Barbour has agreed to allow Mississippi legislators consider a Medicaid budget for the fiscal year that begins Wednesday.

I WILL NOT REST UNTIL THE DREAM FELT TO REFORMS BY WE ACHIEVED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IN SPEECH AFTER SPEECH THE PRESIDENT HAS MADE IT CLEAR HE 'S NOT INTERESTED IN TINKERING WITH HEALTH CARE HE WANTS IT CHANGED FROM TOP TO BOTTOM THE STATUS QUO IS BROKE WE CANNOT CONTINUE THIS WAY IF WE DO NOT FOR EVERYONE 'S HEALTH CARE WILL BE ...

Sen. Herb Kohl said Monday that the Marshfield Clinic's level of patient care, costs and constant push to move medicine forward, make it an example for a nation, and government, debating major health care reform.

You've lost your job. And to add insult to injury, you've also lost your health insurance.