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Neither the Boehner nor the Reid plans include cuts to Medicare or Medicaid. KHN's Mary Agnes Carey talks with Jackie Judd about why that happened and what could bring these entitlements back into the deficit-reduction conversation.
Seven experts explore what it would take to muster the political will to revamp the popular health care program.
Since the 1990s, nearly every developed country on the planet has reformed the way it finances long-term care for the frail elderly and adults with disabilities. Among the handful of exceptions: The U.S. and the United Kingdom.
NPR's Julie Rovner talks with Jackie Judd about the re-emergence of the "Gang of Six" senators in the debt-ceiling debate, what their plan means for the CLASS Act, and how missing details are likely to be filled in.
NPR's Julie Rovner talks with Jackie Judd about the re-emergence of the "Gang of Six" senators in the debt-ceiling debate, what their plan means for the CLASS Act, and how missing details are likely to be filled in.
In his second news conference in a week, President Barack Obama said he is "willing to look at" a number of ways to reduce health care spending, including provider cuts and changing the eligibility age for Medicare. But he dismissed the Republican approach, saying "it's not necessary to completely revamp" Medicare to deal with the deficit and the debt ceiling.
Federal budget guru Stan Collender offers his views on the current debt-ceiling talks and how efforts to include entitlement spending reforms in the final deal could effect future budget battles.
Jackie Judd and KHN's Mary Agnes Carey discuss what Democrats, Republicans and special interest groups are saying in front of the cameras and behind the scenes.
While Democrats are effusive in their praise of Medicare, their silence in response to public attacks on Medicaid has been deafening. All the more important, then, is the study released this month by the National Bureau of Economic Research. It makes the job even easier.
A forthcoming report from the Congressional Budget Office shows that more than two dozen demonstrations projects launched by Medicare and Medicaid over the past decade have failed to stop the upward march of health care costs. But health care policy experts say the findings paint too gloomy a picture.
Democrats and Republicans may not be able to agree on whether to increase taxes as part of a deal to raise the federal debt ceiling. But they can at least agree on this much: the need to restrain Medicare spending. The trick is finding a way to do it without sacrificing quality and access to care.
In his news conference today, President Barack Obama discussed negotiations with Republicans regarding the debt ceiling and the deficit. He also paid some attention to efforts to curb entitlement spending, including Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.
Alan D. Aviles, the longest serving president of the nation's largest municipal health system, discusses his efforts to stabilize HHC's finances in the face of dramatic budgetary challenges -- including the health law's reduction in special funding for safety net hospitals and state efforts to reduce Medicaid costs.
Conservative critics of Medicaid argue that the program doesn't actually help beneficiaries. A new study offers empiracle evidence to the contrary.
State officials, who note that the state payments are above the national average, say they are monitoring the situation.
Some experts fear that the cuts could lead to rise in number of doctors who refuse to take Medicaid patients.
June 30 was the day when Medicaid's enhanced federal matching rates expires, leaving states struggling to sustain health care's safety net. A sensible solution would be for Congress to simply extend the supplemental funds.
KHN's Mary Agnes Carey talks to Sen. Rockefeller about his efforts to defend the Medicaid program.
W.Va. senator is working to raise defenses against efforts in the deficit reduction talks to reduce funding for the health care program that covers the poor and disabled.
Utah senator says he wants to "modernize" the system following the model of the 1996 welfare reform.
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