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CMS Gives States Until 2022 To Meet Medicaid Standards Of Care

By Phil Galewitz May 11, 2017 KFF Health News Original

The Trump administration has given states three more years to meet federal standards aimed at helping elderly and disabled Medicaid enrollees receive services without being forced to go into nursing homes.

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Pharmacies Thrive Selling Opioids For Depressed Small Town Pain

By Phil Galewitz February 8, 2017 KFF Health News Original

Prescription pain pills are strong sellers in this southeastern Kentucky region that’s long struggled with high rates of joblessness and poor health.

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Dentistry Advocates Aim To Fill Medicare Gaps

By Phil Galewitz March 6, 2017 KFF Health News Original

Brushing aside a political climate that favors federal cuts in health care spending, advocates for oral health are pushing to expand Medicare to provide America’s elderly with dental benefits.

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Political Theater: How A Bill That Nearly All Opposed Managed To Pass The House

By Phil Galewitz May 5, 2017 KFF Health News Original

House Republicans can say they kept their campaign promise to replace Obamacare, but they’re counting on the Senate to backstop them.

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CMS Chief To Sit Out Watershed Decision On Medicaid Work Mandate In Kentucky

By Phil Galewitz April 5, 2017 KFF Health News Original

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Seema Verma will recuse herself from the agency’s decision-making on whether to approve Kentucky’s Medicaid waiver because she helped develop the proposal in her former job as a health policy consultant.

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Some GOP Congress Members Could Pay Politically For ACA Repeal Vote

By Emily Bazar and Ana B. Ibarra May 5, 2017 KFF Health News Original

Some political analysts and community advocates say members of California’s Republican congressional delegation, which voted unanimously for the House bill, could be haunted at the polls.

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Insurers May Notch Bigger Profits From Fewer Customers In ‘Trumpcare’

By Phil Galewitz March 24, 2017 KFF Health News Original

As Congress and the White House try to strike a bargain on an Obamacare repeal plan, the insurance industry likes what it’s seeing.

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GOP Health Plan Aims To Curb Medicaid, Expand State Options

By Phil Galewitz March 22, 2017 KFF Health News Original

House Republicans’ latest plan to repeal Obamacare would give states flexibility in managing their Medicaid programs, but also some difficult decisions to make.

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On Medicaid Money, GOP Has Win-Or-Lose Proposition For States

By Phil Galewitz March 20, 2017 KFF Health News Original

The House Republicans’ bill to repeal Obamacare would change how the federal government allocates matching funds to state Medicaid programs — and could cost some states billions of dollars a year in federal aid.

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CBO Deals Blow To Senate Health Bill With Estimate Of 22 Million More Uninsured

By Mary Agnes Carey and Phil Galewitz June 26, 2017 KFF Health News Original

The much anticipated score by the nonpartisan agency could make it more difficult for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to round up the 50 votes he needs to pass his plan to replace Obamacare.

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Late Move To Dump ‘Essential’ Benefits Could Strand Chronically Ill

By Jay Hancock March 24, 2017 KFF Health News Original

Republicans seek lower cost and more choice for health insurance sold to individuals, but cutting coverage standards could leave fewer comprehensive plans, analysts say.

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In Towns That Lost Most Obamacare Insurers, Rate Increases Still Competitive

By Phil Galewitz January 5, 2017 KFF Health News Original

Premiums on 2017 plans are rising by comparable amounts both in counties where multiple insurers still compete and in those where only one insurer remains after several companies stopped selling individual plans under the health law, according to Avalere, a consulting firm.

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Grupo lucha para que el Medicare cubra atención dental completa

By Phil Galewitz March 6, 2017 KFF Health News Original

Un grupo formado por miembros de la industria de la salud oral, médicos y ex funcionarios federales, se unieron con una meta que también es un desafío de salud pública: lograr que el Medicare cubra ampliamente servicios de salud dental.

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Influence Of GOP Doctors Caucus Grows As Congress Looks To Replace Health Law

By Phil Galewitz February 15, 2017 KFF Health News Original

As conservative physicians rise to more powerful positions in government, some question whether they speak for the nation’s doctors.

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Indiana, Pence’s Home State, Seeks Federal OK To Keep Medicaid Expansion

By Phil Galewitz February 1, 2017 KFF Health News Original

Indiana asked the Trump administration Tuesday to renew funding for its Medicaid expansion under the health law, which is due to expire in January 2018.

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Fewer Americans Paid Tax Penalty For Not Having Health Insurance In 2015

By Phil Galewitz January 10, 2017 KFF Health News Original

About 6.5 million Americans paid an average of $470 for not having health insurance in 2015, a requirement under the Affordable Care Act, the IRS reports.

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Obamacare Enrollment Is Beating Last Year’s Early Pace

By Phil Galewitz December 21, 2016 KFF Health News Original

A record 6.4 million Americans signed up for plans through healthcare.gov in the first weeks of open enrollment – 400,000 more than last year at this time, federal officials say.

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Proyecto republicano elimina el mandato individual y gran parte de la expansión del Medicaid

By Mary Agnes Carey and Phil Galewitz March 7, 2017 KFF Health News Original

Los republicanos dieron a conocer el plan de salud con el que buscan reemplazar gran parte del Obamacare. Qué disposiciones se conservarían y cuáles podrían desaparecer por completo.

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House GOP Health Bill Jettisons Insurance Mandate, Much Of Medicaid Expansion

By Mary Agnes Carey and Phil Galewitz March 6, 2017 KFF Health News Original

After intense negotiations among party factions, Republican leaders unveil legislation that committees will mark up this week.

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Lo que podría hacer Mike Pence con el Medicaid

By Phil Galewitz November 28, 2016 KFF Health News Original

El gobernador de Indiana, Mike Pence, fue uno de los 10 gobernadores republicanos que expandió el Medicaid bajo el Obamacare, pero como compañero de fórmula del ahora presidente electo Donald Trump, está pidiendo la derogación y reemplazo de la ley.

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