State Health Watch Archives – May 1, 2007
May 1, 2007
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Cut Medicaid or change it? Drawing lines between cost and coverage
Two respected health researchers say the Bush administration's plans to cut $26 billion from Medicaid spending over the next five years are misguided, and what is needed is a fundamental restructuring of the program to cover more people and shift more costs to the federal government. -
Fiscal Fitness: How States Cope: States improving Medicaid dental care Community and provider support key to success
Some states are experimenting with new ways of delivering dental care to Medicaid patients and reporting good results. -
Notion of Medicaid cost crisis disputed
A new study of Medicaid future funding requirements by the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured projects a less dire situation than often suggested by conventional wisdom. -
Childbirth top health expense for undocumented immigrants
A look at health care needs of the growing number of immigrants in the United States raises questions about the financial wisdom of excluding them from routine health care, and especially prenatal care. -
CMS backs off citizenship check for newborns
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) officials said they are changing the requirement and will now say that all babies born in the United States whose deliveries are covered by Medicaid may remain eligible for Medicaid under certain circumstances. -
Clip files / Local news from the states
A coalition of doctors, legislators, and consumer groups have proposed a sweeping universal health care system that would require all Minnesotans to have insurance and provide subsidies for those who couldn't afford it.