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PBS Newshour's David Chalian talks with Jackie Judd about the latest developments in the budget negotiations being led by Vice President Joe Biden and the role of Medicaid and Medicare in those talks.
Changing Medicare is looking politically risky, so budget-cutters may focus on Medicaid instead. That, too, could prove unpopular because a recent poll shows the public does not favor large cuts to the program.
Some provisions in the new health law may never get off the ground due to lack of appropriations.
Arguing that the proposal will save tax dollars and improve patient care, Republican lawmakers Friday approved a massive overhaul of Florida's Medicaid system.
The groups are financed through a monthly fee, and those revenues are divvied up and sent to members when they have health care expenses.
GOP lawmakers generally oppose efforts to set up the insurance marketplaces called for in the health law - but they aren't crazy about the alternatives either.
Many states are trying to restrain Medicaid spending by putting more people into managed care plans, but with billions of dollars at stake, insurers and health providers are lobbying hard for their interests.
Forget about Medicaid block grants. The GOP says states should be allowed to make it harder to qualify for the health program for the poor. Will Democrats go along?
Tight budgets are driving more than a dozen states to ask foundations for financial help with setting up exchanges and taking other actions required under the federal health law.
The National Association of Insurance Commissioners is considering whether to endorse legislation that would remove broker and agent commissions from the medical loss ratio. The final decision will have far-reaching implications for the reliability of the MLR as a measure of a health plan's value.
Dan Hawkins, senior vice president of the centers' national association, says influx of federal funding is helping them to reach out to more people.
The military is trying to figure out ways to slow down the rapidly rising cost of care and the Obama administration's 2012 budget calls for the first changes since 1996.
Some private plans serving people in Medicare and Medicaid have set up health care centers to help make sure patients get needed treatments and avoid hospitalizations.
Republicans on Friday passes a controversial budget plan championed by House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, and though it stands nearly no chance in the Senate, it is likely a starting point for negotiations among lawmakers.
One of the most popular provisions of the overhaul shows early success, but employers note that it also will usher in higher costs.
The billing can get complicated if doctors find a polyp during a screening: Some insurers
Wright Lassiter is doing the seemingly impossible as CEO of the Alameda County Medical Center in Oakland, Calif.: He's turned a mismanaged urban safety-net hospital system in one of America's most violent cities into a model for other public hospitals by trimming costs -- and did it while expanding services.
KHN's Mary Agnes Carey and Politico Pro's David Nather report on lawmakers' return to Washington to wrangle over health law funding.
House Republicans cut federal funding for Planned Parenthood and other Title X programs, and Senate Democrats tried to restore it. But the Senate Wednesday failed to pass either bill and so the programs, which once had strong bipartisan support, remain a point of contention.
The early provisions that have taken effect in the past year have slowly triggered understanding among more Americans about the law's valuable patient protections, and consumers will oppose having those taken away.
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