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Tag Archives: Medicaid
Will Obamacare Reduce the Crazy Variation in Hospital Prices?
If you have been paying attention to US healthcare policy debates lately, you know that hospitals have a price problem. Walk across the street from one hospital to a competitor hospital, and you could easily find yourself facing a $30,000 increase … Continue reading
Posted in Health Policy
Tagged health care costs, health insurance, Medicaid, Medicare, Obamacare, price transparency
Bad News for Primary Care Providers Serving Medicaid Populations
According to a recent Forbes post: “A huge pay raise promised under the Affordable Care Act for primary care doctors who treat the nation’s poor covered by Medicaid health insurance is nearly three months behind schedule and may take another … Continue reading
Posted in Health Policy
Tagged health policy, Medicaid, Obamacare
Can States Afford to Take Federal Medicaid Dollars?
States face a tough choice right now, of whether to expand their Medicaid roles with 90% of the costs being borne by the government. (Medicaid is a combined Federal/State program to pay for healthcare of low income individuals and families.) … Continue reading
Posted in Health Policy
Tagged ethics, health policy, Medicaid, Obamacare
Obamacare Update: Which States are Going to Expand Medicaid?
Part of Obamacare involved expanding Medicaid, the health insurance program for low income folks in the U.S. The law required states to offer Medicaid to people living at 125% of the federal poverty limit or lower. States that refused to … Continue reading
Posted in Health Policy
Tagged health policy, Medicaid, Obamacare
The Moral and Financial Case for Federalizing Medicaid
Millions of U.S. citizens are too poor to buy health insurance but not poor enough to qualify for Medicaid. And this “not poor enough” problem varies, state by state, depending on the generosity of local governments. In some states, a … Continue reading
Posted in Health Policy
Tagged health policy, Medicaid, Obamacare