Medicaid

Medicaid would be transformed into a "block grant" to the states, allowing them much more discretion over how the money is spent.

The services available under traditional Medicare and Medicaid (for the elderly and the poor respectively) would also have to be rationed.

I had private insurance, Medicaid, other government aid programs, but all that support comes at a price: they control you.

The building of roads or railways has an economic multiplier effect that Medicaid assistance to states and food stamps do not.

A week later at the FDR Memorial, I signed the legislation that extended Medicare and Medicaid benefits to disabled people in the workforce.

Moreover, even in states that have raised Medicaid payments, most dentists still do not accept Medicaid patients.

The public needs to be told the truth if they are called upon to make sacrifices about Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.

The court did impose a rider on the law's expansion of Medicaid, the federal-state health programme for the poor.

The next step is to integrate care for those eligible for both Medicaid and Medicare, the federal programme for the old.

None of the privacy laws mentioned apply to Medicare or Medicaid, because technically these programs are entitlements, not insurance.

If they did not abide by the law's rules, they would lose their federal Medicaid money.

Medicaid , America's main health-care scheme for the poor, does not cover childless adults in most states, no matter how destitute they are.

Last week, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services approved funding for a pilot test of an electronic claims attachment.

The Centres for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) technically can intervene if states do not provide proper access to care.

Ms Eschmann administers the federal programmes supposed to help, including food stamps, Medicaid and cash assistance.

So for childless adults living near poverty, they would qualify for Medicaid expansion and possibly get some health savings as well.

And last fall, the U. S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services tightened its reimbursement policy for elderly cancer patients on ESAs.

To date, Medicaid beneficiaries have been able to challenge the states in court.

If you want to save the state money. . . cut Medicaid across the board, but don't single out overweight people and smokers.

Some health insurance programs pay for sealants. Check with your state Medicaid program or your insurance company for details.

Our public programs, especially food stamps, unemployment insurance and Medicaid, have been exceptionally responsive in this recession.

More states are asking insurers to run Medicaid, the programme for the poor.

The Ryan plan would also reduce money for Medicaid, a joint federal and state health care program for the poor and disabled.

Eventually, they might even spread to Medicaid, the public programme for the poor.

To tackle these costs by cutting government programmes like Medicare and Medicaid is to pick on the aged and the poor .

This would cost $800 to $900, which the Parentes do not have; nor has Joe, unlike the rest of the family, been able to qualify for Medicaid.

The White House is steering clear of where the real money is: popular entitlement programs like Medicare and Medicaid.

It will also permit millions more to receive free coverage through the Medicaid program for the poor.

Amgen said yesterday that it would formally ask the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, or C. M. S. , to overturn that policy.

Medicaid, the scheme for the poor, is organised at the state level but co-financed with Uncle Sam.

Prisons and Medicaid gobble almost half of the general fund, leaving little money to spend elsewhere.

He would give states more freedom to administer Medicaid, but he would cap the federal government's contribution.

Under Johnson, Congress also approved Medicaid, a health care program for the poor and disabled.

Support for Medicaid would be turned into block grants to the states, which would presumably cut back on support.

Medicaid, America's health programme for the poor, is in the process of being transformed.

Health care is another big problem. Medicaid provides health insurance for the poor.

As a Congressman and medical doctor, you've seen both sides of government-run health care through Medicare and Medicaid, of course.

On Medicaid the federal government could switch from matching state spending to block grants, as it did with welfare.

US taxpayers should also know as they spend billions of dollars on prescription drugs and devices through Medicare and Medicaid.

For Medicaid, he suggested a simplification of the formula for sharing costs with the states and heightened efforts to cut waste and fraud.

About a third have purchased private insurance or gained employer-sponsored coverage, and the rest have enrolled in Medicaid.

These results suggest that the administrative reforms have not broken the close link between welfare participation and access to medicaid.

Americans who rightly worry that the ballooning costs of Medicare and Medicaid could lead to fiscal catastrophe down the road.

These may not just raise taxes but reform entitlements, notably Medicare and Medicaid, the federal health plans for the elderly and poor.

Medicaid could be converted to block grants, compelling states to assume more of the burden of cost control.

My mommy and daddy don't like handouts, but we preemies automatically receive Medicaid as a secondary insurance.

Medicaid beneficiaries are vulnerable, in worse health than Americans as a whole.

Now the Obama administration put 32 million people into Medicare and Medicaid, and a portion of this is unfunded mandate for the states.

A number of changes in N. C. Medicaid policy allowed mental health providers to serve a mix of Medicaid and privately insured children.

Medicaid programs would be required to cover obesity counseling.

According to a column in Kaiser Health News, Republican staffers jeered at any and all proposals to use Medicare and Medicaid funds better.

It's about state governments overwhelmed by Medicaid, federal budgets consumed by Medicare, and deficits piling higher year after year.

Unlike Medicare or Medicaid, Ryan White programs are "payer of last resort, " which fund treatment when no other resources are available.

American lose their jobs, stop paying taxes, and start collecting government benefits like Medicaid and unemployment.

Medicaid can take over if you run out of money.

Top Democrats cannot resist lambasting a budget that "cuts Medicare and Medicaid" while "sending more taxpayer dollars to Iraq" .

College graduates are less likely to consume tax dollars spent on law enforcement, Medicaid and welfare.

Recall that Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, the main programs for the elderly, exceed 40 percent of federal spending.

When health care costs grow at the rate they have, it puts greater pressure on programs like Medicare and Medicaid.

They obtained mortality figures from the September 2008 release of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Hospital Compare database.

For Medicaid, modest co-payments should be introduced (except for preventive services).

Publicly financed contraception pays for itself, by reducing money spent through Medicaid on childbirth and child care.

Senate Republicans blocked a bill in June that would have extended stimulus Medicaid funding to the states through fiscal 2011.

"Absent some relief there, you'll get Medicaid budgets slashed, " says a senior Democratic aide familiar with the plans.

The president will also propose changes to Medicare and Medicaid that would reduce the deficit by about $300 billion over 10 years.

This year roughly one in five Americans will be covered by Medicaid for a month or more.

Many governors are also looking for ways to integrate Medicaid into their states' private insurance systems.

Also, Medicaid is much more effective at bargaining with the medical-industrial complex.

Medicare and Medicaid: Both would largely continue operating without disruption.

The Republicans planned more radical transformations to Medicare and Medicaid.

If they were released, their health costs would be covered by the Medicaid program, which was funded mostly by the federal government.

States would be compelled to extend Medicaid, the government health plan used by the very poor, to an additional 15m people.

The Amnesty report spotlights numerous barriers women face in accessing care, even among those who are insured or qualify for Medicaid.

As for Medicaid, Congress regularly ties state funding to particular requirements.

Hospitals also face the prospect of steep cuts in payments from the federal Medicare and state Medicaid programs.

Offer an income-based federal subsidy for people who don't get insurance from an employer or qualify for government plans like Medicaid.

Most states have adopted administrative measures to encourage the use of prenatal care among medicaid-eligible women.

I use the rapid growth in average Medicaid expenditure as a proxy for its value.

Much of the additional cost to Medicare, Medicaid, and other public programs is borne by taxpayers who are not obese.

Less government spending. Cuts in Medicare and Medicaid, a means test for Social Security.

Responsibility for Medicaid is shared by federal and state governments.

The package would also expand Medicaid and place caps on patients' annual health-care costs.

The outcome of Douglas v Independent Living Centre will have profound implications for the future of Medicaid.

States must agree to extend Medicaid to designated groups and pay for certain benefits.

Half of the budget is Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.

However, Social Security, Medicare, and low-income programmes (such as Medicaid and food stamps) would be spared.

Medicaid gobbles up more state money than any programme except education.

Many want to place more Medicaid beneficiaries in managed care, which limits access to certain doctors and treatments.

An additional $16 billion would extend for six months increased Medicaid payments to the states.

The most costly programmes include education and Medicaid, which voters are loth to cut.

It won't affect benefits through Medicare, Medicaid, or Social Security.

But in the end, is it not the government that pays doctors to see patients with public insurance, including Medicaid?

Washington's reforms may transform Medicaid in future, for better or worse.

Do you want to be possibly put in a less desirable room in the nursing home if you go on Medicaid?

Most money, $87 billion, is for Medicaid, the government's health-care programme for the poor.

Only about 3% of children are both uninsured and ineligible for help under either SCHIP or Medicaid.

Medicaid is America's single biggest health programme.

State representatives in Texas want to slash rates by 10%, which may discourage doctors from accepting new Medicaid patients.

They will be further rankled if he tries to cut hundreds of billions of dollars from Medicare and Medicaid in order to get his bill passed.

the poorest of all will be added to the rolls of Medicaid, a health scheme for the indigent.

Because we don't have certain protections under Medicaid Laws.

Merck also is paying $426 million to the federal government and $202 million to state Medicaid agencies.

Dr. Heart1: The patient was on Medicaid, of low socioeconomic class, and not educated.

There are income limits to qualify for Medicaid, and cash-strapped states are limiting coverage.

But if both parties sign a contract before the family caregiver starts the job, Medicaid accepts that as an employment agreement.

The White House said a big debt reduction plan could involve savings in social programs such as Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security.

In the days before Medicare and Medicaid there were a lot who couldn't.

What about my medicine? Medicaid gonna cut me off.

These "duals" account for almost 40% of Medicaid's costs and just 15% of its population.

By increasing its share of joint spending schemes, such as Medicaid, the federal government can counter that decline.

Democratic and Republican leaders have competing plans to change Medicaid.

The rest consists of entitlements such as Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.

Corrections have gobbled more and more of state budgets, at a faster pace than any government service except Medicaid.

Mr Roberts then continued that the government may offer states money to expand their Medicaid programme.

OLS estimates of Medicaid' s effect may be biased because of omitted variables bias and measurement error.

Texas is targeting more than 400, 000 Medicaid beneficiaries in the Rio Grande Valley.

Social Security and Medicare and Medicaid are commitments of conscience - and so it is our duty to keep them permanently sound.

Public spending on health care per person is actually higher in America (through Medicare, Medicaid and other government programmes).

At the same time, declining welfare caseloads have caused many women to lose medicaid.

But only about 25 percent of all Virginia dentists now accept Medicaid patients, compared with 15 percent before the changes.

At last count, there were 32 million food stamp recipients and 49 million on Medicaid.

States have three main ways to cut costs, says Matt Salo of the National Association of Medicaid Directors.

Do you accept Medicare or Medicaid insurance?

Enrolment in Medicaid jumped during the downturn, from 42. 7m in December 2007 to 50. 3m in June 2010.

The Medicaid bill was $2. 7bn last year, not much of an improvement on the $3. 5bn drained in 2008.

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