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Georgia Republicans: State Can’t Afford Health Care Reform

By | 02.08.10 | 5:49 pm

Georgia’s House Republicans have a simple warning for Democratic leaders still hoping to pass health care reform this year: Our state can’t afford it.

In a letter to Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.), the Republicans argue that the Democrats’ plans to expand Medicaid, a program More…

Another Note on the House Public Option

By | 10.29.09 | 1:48 pm

The Washington Post points out today that, by divorcing public plan rates from Medicare in their final health reform bill, House Democrats might have to hike Medicaid eligibility to 150 percent of poverty as a compensation measure.

The shuffle looks fine on paper. After all, coverage is coverage, More…

Governors Still Resisting Dems’ Medicaid Expansion Proposal

By | 10.05.09 | 2:27 pm

One of the central elements of the Democrats’ plans to cover the tens of millions of uninsured Americans is a sweeping expansion of Medicaid, the state-federal partnership to cover the lowest-income folks. But the success of that strategy is in doubt for a couple of reasons.

First, Medicaid pays providers More…

Senate Finance Panel Grants States Flexibility to Drop Medicaid Patients

By | 10.01.09 | 7:01 pm

In a perfect display of how much of the Senate Finance Committee’s public debate over health reform is really not public, the panel this afternoon approved — without discussion and without a roll-call vote — a controversial amendment granting states the flexibility to drop some Medicaid patients after 2010.