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Will Long-Term Care Be Included In Health Reform?
The real challenge for long-term care reform remains indifference, rather than outright opposition.
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Arizona Faces ‘Financial Tsunami’ Over Medicaid
While Washington lawmakers are discussing an expansion of Medicaid, Arizona is having trouble paying for the program at its current level. The state has one of the highest Medicaid rates in the country, with about 1 out of every 5 residents covered by the program for the poor. This story comes from our partner NPR News.
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The Predicament of Near-Seniors And Health Reform
The differing interests and preferences of seniors and near-seniors reflect the perils of incremental reform in reaching universal coverage.
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Get Medicaid Out Of The Long-Term Care Business
While states and the federal government struggle to update Medicaid though a maze of waiver programs and patches to an increasingly outdated law, their efforts are a little like trying to add disc breaks and electronic ignition to a 1965 Plymouth. It is, in the end, still a 1965 Plymouth.
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Why Seniors are Health Reform Winners, Not Losers
In truth, seniors are likely to big winners if responsible health reform passes and prime victims if it fails.
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For Dying and Seriously Ill Children, Hope For Better Care
When 14 year old Prince Jackson was diagnosed with a brain tumor, he was caught in a gray zone: public and private insurance doesn't usually cover the palliative care he desperately needed. But his mother got help from a new program that provides services for seriously ill or dying children.
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What The House Health Bill Says About End-Of-Life Care
Section 1233 of the health overhaul bill approved by three House committees has been the subject of great debate. We present the language as written in the bill itself.
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Should The Homeless Be In Medicaid?
Most homeless people lack insurance and rely on the emergency room and government-funded clinics for treatment. Advocates say the existing system is inadequate as well as expensive for taxpayers, and that expanding Medicaid to include the homeless is a better option. This story comes from our partner NPR News
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Obama’s Focus on Cost Offered Critics Many Targets
The pundits are busy filing their reports on how President Obama blew it on health care reform. And while the health care fight is far from over--I remain convinced the Democrats will pass a bill, maybe even a good one--the pundits have a point.
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Kennedy Biographer Adam Clymer: Kennedy Shaped Obama’s Health Agenda
Adam Clymer is the author of a remarkable biography, "Edward M. Kennedy," which captures the sweep and breadth of the senator's remarkable half century of public service. KHN's Eric Pianin talked with Clymer about Sen. Kennedy.
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Why Are Health Costs So High? The System Pushes Doctors To Give Unnecessary Care
In the mid-1970s, an unconventional researcher named Jack Wennberg discovered an unusually high rate of hysterectomies in Lewiston, Maine. That was just one of a series of studies that led to a very surprising conclusion about health care: a large portion of the medical care Americans get is unnecessary.
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Obama Backs Helping Hand For Long-Term Care
The Obama administration has endorsed a new government social insurance program that would help people put aside money to pay for the high costs of long-term care.
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Health Bills Might Not Protect Some Needy Americans, Experts Say
As lawmakers weigh trimming legislation, some consumers might end up burdened by medical and insurance costs.
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Alzheimer’s Patients Struggle Without Insurance
Alzheimer's is thought of as a disease of the elderly, but hundreds of thousands of cases are in men and women under 65. Because the disease makes it difficult to work, these people often lose their jobs - and their health insurance.
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Recalling Kennedy: Health Care Players Reflect on His Career
People who knew and worked with Sen. Edward M. Kennedy discuss his efforts to promote major change in the U.S. health care system.
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President Obama’s Weekly Saturday Address – Prepared Remarks
The White House released these prepared remarks in advance of the President's weekly Saturday address.
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Press Release: Baucus’ Plan To Lower Health Care Costs
The following is a press release on Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus' new health care reform legislation.
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A Market ‘Fundamentally Changed’: How Health Proposals Could Affect Americans Who Buy Their Own Insurance
New rules being debated by Congress could mean consumers couldn't be rejected because they have health problems and would include subsidies for lower-income people to buy insurance. But the rules won't solve all the problems faced by those who don't get insurance through their jobs.