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| Dec 28, 2008 |
Massachusetts Program to Help Unemployed Pay for Health Insurance Gets Bombarded The massive increase in the number of Massachusetts residents being left without a job and without affordable health insurance has led to a wave of people signing up for the state's Medical Security Program, "a lifeline that helps middle-and lower-income unemployed residents pay their health insurance premiums," reports the Boston Globe. |
| Dec 28, 2008 |
Opinion: Only Major Changes to Health Care Can Produce Substantial Savings While President-elect Barack Obama has proposed some good ideas to save money on health care, such as using electronic medical records, managing chronic conditions and focusing on preventive measures, "the only truly promising way to save money is to change the way health care is organized and delivered," writes Alain Enthoven, a professor of management at Stanford, in a New York Times guest commentary. |
| Dec 26, 2008 |
Expansion of Community Health Centers is Bush's Health Care Legacy While the number of uninsured and the cost of health care coverage have soared during the presidency of George W. Bush, he is leaving office with a "health care legacy in bricks and mortar," having "doubled federal financing for community health centers, enabling the creation or expansion of 1,297 clinics in medically underserved areas," reports the New York Times. |
| Dec 26, 2008 |
States Consider Even Deeper Cuts to Medicaid if They Don't Get Federal Help Nineteen states and the District of Columbia have already made cuts to their Medicaid programs as they struggle against the worsening economic quagmire, and even more "are drafting deeper reductions for the coming fiscal year that they hope to avoid" if they can get assistance from the federal government, reports the Washington Post. |
| Dec 23, 2008 |
House Party Participants Discuss Problems with the Health Care System A New York Times article highlighted one of the 4,200 house parties being held this month in response to President-elect Barack Obama's request that citizens throughout the country gather together to discuss their views about the health care system as well as their own "particularly poignant stories to highlight the need for health care reform." |
| Dec 23, 2008 |
Opinion: Health Insurance Companies Cannot be Trusted to Reform System America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) has offered a proposal to fix the country's ailing health care system, but the health insurance industry's idea of reform is "You pay more. We profit more," according to a Providence Journal guest commentary by Vivian G. Weisman, executive director of the Mental Health Association of Rhode Island. |
| Dec 22, 2008 |
Recession Causes Medicaid Rolls to Increase "Since the recession began a year ago, many states have seen increases in the Medicaid rolls just as tax revenues are falling below projections," leading governors to request that the federal government provide an extra $40 billion for the program over the next two years, reports the Associated Press. |