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With time running out, Florida Medicaid expansion is in doubt

With time running out, Florida Medicaid expansion is in doubt

April 26, 2013 5:59 am by | 0 Comments

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Cary Pigman, a Republican lawmaker in the state House of Representatives, sees uninsured patients every shift as an emergency room doctor in a rural part of central ... Read more
Florida official: Build it and they will come doesn’t work with insurance marketplaces

Florida official: Build it and they will come doesn’t work with insurance marketplaces

March 31, 2013 9:39 pm by | 0 Comments

With almost one in five of its residents lacking health insurance, officials in Palm Beach County thought they had hit on a smart solution. The county launched a program that ... Read more
Connecticut races to reach uninsured, open health insurance marketplace

Connecticut races to reach uninsured, open health insurance marketplace

March 25, 2013 6:13 am by | 0 Comments

HARTFORD, Conn. — In the nation’s insurance capital, the hunt to find uninsured people and get them enrolled in the state’s new online health insurance marketplace has already begun.Officials working for ... Read more
Plans to expand Florida Medicaid welcomed and feared

Plans to expand Florida Medicaid welcomed and feared

February 24, 2013 9:55 pm by | 0 Comments

Almost overnight, Florida has gone from being an ardent opponent of the federal health care law to a laboratory for one of the law’s most ambitious experiments.  Florida Governor Rick ... Read more
Hospitals clamp down on dangerous early elective deliveries

Hospitals clamp down on dangerous early elective deliveries

February 23, 2013 1:03 pm by | 0 Comments

For decades, doctors have been warned about the dangers of delivering babies early without a medical reason. But the practice remained stubbornly persistent.

 

Now, with pressure ... Read more

States face Friday deadline for partnership with feds on marketplaces

States face Friday deadline for partnership with feds on marketplaces

February 15, 2013 10:13 am by | 0 Comments

States face another Affordable Care Act deadline Friday— their last chance to work with the federal government in setting up new online health insurance marketplaces that open for business Oct. 1.The Oba... ... Read more
Tick, tock: Administration misses some health law deadlines

Tick, tock: Administration misses some health law deadlines

January 31, 2013 11:00 am by | 0 Comments

The Obama administration is late in implementing several provisions of the federal health overhaul intended to improve access to care and lower costs.The programs, slated to take effect Jan. 1, ... Read more
Insurers to moms and docs: Don’t rush the babies

Insurers to moms and docs: Don’t rush the babies

January 21, 2013 9:37 pm by | 0 Comments

Some government and private insurers are discouraging and in some cases penalizing doctors and hospitals for delivering babies early without cause. Their goal is to reduce care in NICUs, where ... Read more
How will the election change Medicaid? Ideas and plans from each candidate

How will the election change Medicaid? Ideas and plans from each candidate

October 3, 2012 9:00 pm by | 0 Comments

President Barack Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney have vastly different approaches to the program. Looking at comments from each man show what they would do and how Americans would ... Read more