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Low-income patients have been confused by changes in Florida's Medicaid reform experiment, which covers more than 100,000 people in Broward County, says a report expected to be published today. According to the report in the publication Health Affairs,...Tags: Health Insurance, Broward County, Government Health Care
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Illinois Medicaid program to cover genetic test for breast cancer
Illinois' Medicaid program has decided to cover a genetic test for the first time — a move that begins to steer the program in the direction of 21st Century medicine. The state will now pay for BRCA1 and BRCA2 gene tests and genetic counseling...Tags: Health Insurance, Cancer, Breast Cancer, Genetics, Government Health Care
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Report: Ind. workers losing job-provided coverage
Associated Press WriterA new report provides grist for a health policy political debate Monday: Indiana fares better than most states when it comes to employer-provided health insurance, but the percentage of Hoosiers who are covered is dropping. Health plans through work...Tags: Government, Executive Branch, Employers, Private Health Care, Medical Specialization
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Health care reform remains in limbo
Of The Associated PressWhen Gov. Ed Rendell first proposed an ambitious plan to expand subsidized health insurance to uninsured Pennsylvania adults, he wanted the state to step into a void left by the federal government's failure to act. Nearly two years later, access to...Tags: Adults, Parliament, Government, Government Health Care, People
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Rivals short on specifics for entitlement reform
Social Security and Medicare long have been considered the nation's fiscal time bombs, and the ticking is getting louder. But presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain have no comprehensive plans to overhaul the systems and are campaigning...Tags: Wages and Pensions, Government Health Care, State Budgets, Credit and Debt, Employers
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Alabama settles prescription drug suits against Bristol-Myers Squibb, 4 other companies
Associated Press WriterMONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) _ The state of Alabama has settled Medicaid drug pricing lawsuits it filed against prescription drug manufacturer Bristol-Myers Squibb and four other companies, a lawyer representing the state confirmed Friday. Bristol-Myers...Tags: Bristol Myers Squibb Company, Government Health Care, Pharmaceuticals, Montgomery County (Alabama), Montgomery (Montgomery, Alabama)
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And the criticism
Health policy advisors to Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain summed up the candidates' criticism of their opponents' plans in an Oct. 1 debate. Said Dr. Irwin Redlener, advisor to Obama: "The healthcare system is wacky and out of control. It can't run...Tags: Government Health Care, Private Health Care, Healthcare Policies, Economy, Medicare
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The state of healthcare
The United States spent $2.1 trillion on healthcare in 2006, according to national health expenditure data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. That number is expected to hit $4.3 trillion by the end of 2017 -- 19.5% of the gross...Tags: Government Health Care, Private Health Care, Healthcare Policies, Economy, Medicare
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The analyses
The Commonwealth Fund, a nonprofit organization that supports independent research on healthcare, finds fundamental differences between the two plans. The organization has summarized the candidates' positions in 22 areas, including prescription drugs,...Tags: Government Health Care, Private Health Care, Healthcare Policies, Economy, Medicare
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John McCain, Barack Obama on healthcare
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterJohn McCain and Barack Obama's health reform plans are different both in their approaches to solving problems and their potential effects on voters. But to choose wisely, you have to do some homework. To help, we offer a guide to online resources that...Tags: Government Health Care, Healthcare Policies, Private Health Care, Economy, Medicare
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Healthcare: Where McCain , Obama stand
Where they stand on health care, as adapted from an analysis by the Kaiser Family Foundation. JOHN MCCAIN OVERALL. Begin taxing employer-sponsored health benefits as income, instead providing a tax credit of $2,500 for individuals and $5,000 for...Tags: Government Health Care, State Budgets, Private Health Care, Employers, Economy
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McCain, Obama offer very different health care plans
elizabeth.moore@newsday.comIt would be hard to come up with two more starkly different approaches to reforming American health care than those advanced by presidential nominees John McCain and Barack Obama. Obama wants to build on the existing system of employer-sponsored health...Tags: Government, State Budgets, Credit and Debt, Employers, Private Health Care
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