Florida priest threatens to cancel employee health insurance as challenge to federal birth control decision

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GOP governors pushing block grants for Medicaid, policy analysts worry millions could lose coverage

Among the many Republican-backed provisions to cut federal spending is the proposal to transform Medicaid into block grants.

Republicans have posited the initiative as a reform on Medicaid, claiming the transformation will save $180 billion within the next 10 years, according to Kaiser Health News. The Kaiser Family Foundation estimates

Recession Swells Medicaid Rolls in 2009; One in Six Using the Program

A new report from the Kaiser Family Foundation shows the extent to which the job and benefits loss of the recession has pushed individuals onto Medicaid, the government program to help the poor access health care.

Poll: More Americans Getting Behind Health Care Reform

The new poll, conducted by the non-partisan Kaiser Family Foundation, found that 46 percent of Americans support the health reform bills moving on Capitol Hill, while 42 percent oppose them. Furthermore:

Six in 10 Americans say they have heard little or nothing about budget reconciliation. And many people

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When Opposition to Health Care Reform Isn’t Really Opposition

Republicans have been trumpeting polls indicating that most Americans oppose the Democrats’ proposals to reform the country’s dysfunctional health care system. Yet there’s increasing evidence that a good chunk of the opposition is rooted, not in any real criticism of the bills, but in the public’s misunderstanding of More…

Report: Where’s the Media Health Coverage?

President-elect Barack Obama may have made health-care reform a priority in 2009, but not everyone sees the issue as being so important. So says a new report, revealing that media coverage of health issues made up just 3.6 percent of all news coverage in the 18 months between January More…