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From The Associated Press: Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2011 COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina’s Medicaid agency may reinstate paying for tooth extractions in 2012-13. The state Department of Health and Human Services cut emergency dental service for adults last spring as it sought to close a $228 million deficit. Federal law doesn’t require state Medicaid programs…
From The Associated Press: By Seanna Adcox Monday, Oct. 24, 2011 COLUMBIA, S.C. — The director of South Carolina’s Medicaid agency wants to make it easier for low-income children who already qualify for health care coverage to enroll, saying Monday it’s a conservative step toward meeting a huge unfunded liability looming in 2014. Director Tony…
From The New York Times: Paul Taggart/Bloomberg News Thereby returning an untold percentage of its workforce to the Medicaid rolls. By STEVEN GREENHOUSE and REED ABELSON Published: October 20, 2011 Citing rising costs, Wal-Mart, the nation’s largest private employer, told its employees this week that all future part-time employees who work less than 24 hours a week on…
From The Washington Post: By Phil Galewitz, Published: October 6 The applications poured in, spurred by millions of dollars in new funding included in the health law to expand primary care to the poor. A record 810 groups sought federal grants to staff and equip hundreds of new and existing community health centers. But in…
From The (Anderson) Independent Mail: It’s no secret that the costs of health care and health insurance to help pay for that care have skyrocketed over the last few years. But if you are among those who believe hospitals are getting rich off of the economy’s ills, think again. Nonprofit and not-for-profit public hospitals around…
From The Greenville News: Graham Touts Medicaid Option Bill would let states opt out of expansion 11:07 PM, Sep. 21, 2011 | By Liv Osby | Staff Writer U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham introduced a bill Wednesday that would allow states to opt out of the Medicaid expansion expected in 2014 under the federal health reform law.…
From The New Republic: By Jonathan Cohn September 14, 2011 | 10:13 am Need a reason to believe the Affordable Care Act is starting to work? The Census Bureau just gave you a half million of them. That’s how many young adults had health insurance in 2010, as compared to 2009, according to the official…
From The Greenville News: The Taylors Free Medical Clinic has seen a 25 percent increase in the number of people seeking health care over the past two years, sometimes getting so busy they must turn new patients away. By Liv Osby | Staff Writer 1:17 AM, Sep. 14, 2011 The Taylors Free Medical Clinic has…
From The Huffington Post: By Wendell Potter In his quest to win the Republican presidential nomination, Texas Gov. Rick Perry is perpetuating a convincing hoax: that implementing Texas-style tort reform would go a long way toward curing what ails the U.S. health care system. Like his fellow GOP contenders, Perry consistently denounces “Obamacare” as “a…
From Kaiser Health News: By Phil Galewitz August 18th, 2011, 5:31 PM If you build it, they will come … at least some of the time. The number of children eligible for Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) but not enrolled fell to 4.3 million in 2009 from 4.7 million the prior year, according to…
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