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Healthcare Reform Already Reveals Positive Effects

August 2, 2011

From Think Progress: By Igor Volsky— Jul 28, 2011 at 9:01 am A new report from the Medicare Office of the Actuary estimates that “health spending will grow by an average of 5.8 percent a year through 2020, compared to 5.7 percent without the health overhaul.” As a result, the nation is expected to spend…

A Closer Look At The Right’s Favorite Medicaid “Fact”

July 7, 2011

From The Washington Post: Witnesses at a hearing on Medicaid legislation in Florida last month By Glenn Kessler– 07/05/2011 “Cash-strapped states are also feeling the burden of the Medicaid entitlement. The program consumes nearly 22 percent of states’ budgets today, and things are about to get a whole lot worse.” — Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah),…

Doctors Fear Lowered Provider Rates After S.C. Cuts

June 21, 2011

By Matt Kennard–June 20 2011 19:10 Doctors treating the poor in the US are braced for significant reductions to their services amid increased pressure from both the Obama administration and Republicans for deep cuts in health spending. Twenty-nine Republican governors have called for greater flexibility in how states administer Medicaid programmes for the poor, a…

Message To Health Law Critics: It’s Not A Lack Of Flexibility

March 2, 2011

“The real problem here, in other words, isn’t the lack of flexibility in the health law. It’s the lack of workable ideas from critics on the right.” From Kaiser Health News: By Jonathan Cohn, Senior Editor of The New Republic (Mar 01, 2011) With Republican governors complaining that the Affordable Care Act doesn’t give them…

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