On Monday, President Obama (via his budget proposal) put out the request for six additional months of extra federal Medicaid funding to help strapped states weather the economic downturn. Today, Senate Democrats complied.
Sens. Harry Reid (D-Nev.), the majority leader, and Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.), chairman of a key health More…
A group of powerful Senate Democrats is urging leadership today to repeal the federal anti-trust exemption that insurance companies have enjoyed for more than six decades. In a letter to President Obama, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), the Democrats More…
Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.), chairman of an airline safety panel, will hold hearings early next year to examine the holes in airport screening that allowed a 23-year-old Nigerian to smuggle plastic explosives onto a plane bound for Detroit on Christmas Day. “We have to fully investigate this incident to find More…
Senate supporters of the Children’s Health Insurance Program won two years of additional funding for the popular federal-state program under the upper chamber’s health reform bill, but it remains unknown what will become of that provision when Senate leaders sit down next month with those in the House, More…
It’s not the five years of additional funding many advocates were hoping for, but the Senate’s compromise on health reform does include money to extend the Children’s Health Insurance Program for two additional years, thereby preventing millions of CHIP kids from shifting into private plans on newly created insurance exchanges at More…
Announcing the Democrats’ tentative deal on a public option, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said last night that the nascent proposal strikes a good balance between liberals, who say a federal plan will lower patient costs, and conservatives who want to limit the government’s hand More…
In October, it was Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) who rescued the Children’s Health Insurance Program from oblivion in the Senate Finance Committee. This week, it’s Sen. Robert Casey (D-Pa.) pushing to provide full funding (and then some) for the popular program as the Democrats’ health reform bill moves More…
The Democrats’ proposal to terminate the Children’s Health Insurance Program would hike health care costs for some of the country’s low-income families, likely increasing the number of uninsured kids in the name of expanding coverage, several health policy experts and state health officials warned Friday.
Under the sweeping More…
The collision between environmental protection and coal extraction is nothing new to the Appalachian states, which are home to some of the largest coal deposits in the world. But in the middle of an unemployment crisis — and with a new administration showing signs of cracking down harshly More…
Though it’s been little mentioned throughout the health reform debate, there’s a showdown brewing between House and Senate Democrats over the future of the popular Children’s Health Insurance Program, previously know as SCHIP.
House lawmakers have proposed to do away with the program at the end of 2013, More…
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