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Kaiser Health News sat down with Florida Senate President Don Gaetz in his office in Tallahassee last week to discuss the debate over expanding Medicare in the Sunshine State.
House GOP leaders question whether feds can deliver on $50B promise to cover poor residents.
With billions at stake, hospitals are lobbying hard for Medicaid expansion in Columbus, Tallahassee and other state capitals where state legislators oppose the extension of the program.
Dr. Ashenafi Waktola relies on his own experience as a refugee from Ethiopia to shape his practice in Silver Spring, Md. where almost 50 percent of his patients are refugees. The 76,000 new arrivals from troubled countries who come to the U.S. each year qualify for government health care for eight months, but they often face language barriers and a confounding system when that special status elapses.
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., set the tone for a very-supportive Senate Finance Committee hearing on Marilyn Tavenner's nomination to head the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. But others questioned Tavenner, who is acting administrator, on a variety of other issues. Here are video excerpts of the hearing.
Marilyn Tavenner, the acting head of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and President Obama's nominee to keep the job, found both Democratic and Republican support during a Senate Finance Committee hearing today. KHN's Mary Agnes Carey talks with Jackie Judd about the hearing and when the Senate could vote on the confirmation.
Extending benefits to ex-offenders will provide health coverage to a group that is generally in worse health than the overall population. Researchers say it could also keep some from sliding back into crime.
Officials hope to 'make history' by signing up two-thirds of those without coverage after the marketplaces launch nationwide Oct. 1.
Other states are watching as the federal government appears likely to allow the two states to use federal Medicaid dollars to purchase private coverage on their insurance exchanges.
Reporters on the ground in Colorado, Florida and Minnesota discuss the most significant developments to happen in their states since the law's passage and what future challenges they see ahead.
Chances for the Florida Legislature approving an alternate plan that would accomplish the same goals are looking up.
Medicaid managed care plans prepare for as many as 10 million new members in 2014-- and billions in additional revenue.
House speaker talks about his family's reliance on "safety net" help when he was young, but he still opposes health law's new Medicaid funding.
Tar Heel State will not be expanding Medicaid. Carol Steckel explains that before the state can contemplate expanding the program, "We've got to clean up internally."
Republicans in the Texas House agreed not to expand Medicaid, but left the door open to doing so if the Obama administration grants the state enough flexibility.
Federal funding for Medicaid is untouched but doctors, hospitals and other Medicare providers will see a 2 percent reduction.
Doctors, consumer groups cheer expansion, worry that for-profit health plans may cut corners.
Can for-profit health insurance companies be trusted to take care of the vulnerable, expensive patients who qualify for both Medicare and Medicaid? In Arizona, a state that has been known to resist federal health programs, private companies have been doing just that for many years.
Although Medicare and Medicaid will be largely unscathed in the March 1 sequestration, other health-related efforts including medical research, mental health treatments and drug approvals face reductions.
The Affordable Care Act will usher at least seven million more Americans into Medicaid next year, but the question of whether enough doctors will be there to welcome them is keeping some state health policymakers up at night.
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