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From Greenville Online: BY LIV OSBY • STAFF WRITER • PUBLISHED: JUNE 15. 2011 2:00AM Medicaid services will continue through the rest of the fiscal year now that the State Budget and Control Board has voted to fund the Department of Health and Human Services’ remaining budget shortfall. Last fall, DHHS said it would have to…
From The New York Times: By PAUL KRUGMAN–Published: June 12, 2011 Every once in a while a politician comes up with an idea that’s so bad, so wrongheaded, that you’re almost grateful. For really bad ideas can help illustrate the extent to which policy discourse has gone off the rails. And so it was with…
From Talking Points Memo: Brian Beutler| June 10, 2011, 4:40PM The political damage to President Obama’s health care law may already be done. But there’s a curious backstory to the report this week from a major consulting firm study that found “ObamaCare” would lead to fairly dramatic unintended consequences. The consulting firm McKinsey & Company…
From First Focus: New Report Reveals Medicaid’s Enormous Success in Protecting Children & Vulnerable Populations Washington D.C. – Today, with threats of serious budget cuts looming, a new report demonstrates the effectiveness of the Medicaid program in addressing the health and financial needs of children and other vulnerable populations. The synthesis, entitled Medicaid Works: A…
From The Post and Courier: By Renee Dudley–Friday, June 10, 2011 State Medicaid cuts announced earlier this week will cause Charleston-area hospitals to lose tens of millions of dollars, forcing at least one of them to shed jobs and reduce services, hospital officials said. Reductions announced Monday will cost the Medical University of South Carolina…
From The Washington Post: By Ezra Klein | 04:59 PM ET, 06/09/2011 By Akira Hakuta/The Washington Post “The safer Medicare is, the more endangered Medicaid is,” sighs Sen. Jay Rockefeller. “Reading the tea leaves and being in a lot of meetings over the last couple of days, I worry that people are saying, ‘great, now…
From The Huffington Post: Ron Pollack–06/ 9/11 02:22 PM ET There’s encouraging news out of Atlanta today for all Americans. The third hearing before the court of appeals left me feeling optimistic about the future of the Affordable Care Act. But let’s start from the beginning. There have been approximately two dozen suits filed against…
From The Herald: U.S. Rep. Mick Mulvaney, R-S.C. Jamie Self– Thursday, Jun. 09, 2011 LAKE WYLIE — The debate over how to get the nation’s fiscal house in order – and whether all will carry a fair share of the burden – came to northern York County on Wednesday night at a town hall meeting hosted…
From The Hill: By Sam Baker and Julian Pecquet – 06/08/11 03:29 PM ET Judges in the highest-profile challenge to the healthcare reform law appeared skeptical of the federal government’s defense, according to people who attended oral arguments in the case Wednesday. In nearly three hours of questioning, a three-judge panel of the 11th U.S.…
From AllBusiness.com: By John Arensmeyer–Tuesday, June 7th, 2011 Ever since the Affordable Care Act was passed in 2010, opponents have thrown every attack they can think of against the wall, hoping something will stick. As attempts to repeal the law have failed, some of their arguments have become increasingly laughable and, unfortunately, unconscionably reckless. For…
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