Congressional Republicans want to make Medicaid even less generous than it was before Obamacare.
Medicaid
Posted inPolitical Animal
Republicans Consider Taking Children’s Health Insurance Program Hostage
Threatening the health care of children is a revolting display of immoral political gamesmanship.
Posted inPolitical Animal
Repealing Obamacare Is McConnell’s Headache Now
The House process was all about political games, not governing.
Posted inPolitical Animal
Will Ryan Settle For Gutting Medicaid?
It’s been his ambition since his college days.
Posted inPolitical Animal
When It Comes to Health Care for Poor Americans – Elections Matter
According to the newly elected Democratic Governor of Louisiana – John Bel Edwards – elections matter for poor people without health care. Here is what happened following his own election last year: Edwards said the state already has signed up 204,000 people for the expanded Medicaid program since enrollment started June 1, with coverage starting July […]
Posted inHealth Care, June/July/August 2016, Magazine, Special Reports
Drug Treatment
How to separate the good from the bad.
Posted inHealth Care, June/July/August 2016, Magazine, Special Reports
Cost and Quality
Integrating behavioral and physical health care is the key.
Posted inPolitical Animal, Politics
Obamacare Breaks Through in Louisiana
If David Vitter had been elected the governor of Louisiana, I know that this would not be happening: Department of Health and Hospitals [DHH] will begin the massive task Wednesday (June 1) of enrolling 375,000 people into the state’s expanded Medicaid program. The department’s goal is to get Medicaid insurance cards into the hands of […]
Posted inBooks, Government, Health Care, Magazine, March/April 2013
Consequential Drift
The government program where party differences have widened the most, and matter the most, is Medicaid.
Posted inMagazine
The Other AIDS Crisis
As the AIDS crisis demonstrates, when two major components of our health care system—the federal government and private insurers—flinch at high costs, the burden shifts to local public hospitals that are hindered by woefully inadequate funding and poor municipal planning.
