medicaid

WASHINGTON — A challenge from physicians to California's proposed Medicaid reimbursement cuts prompted Supreme Court justices Monday to worry about a flood of similar lawsuits in the future. The prospect that courts could get swamped alarmed several justices across the ideological spectrum...

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WHAT A FUCKING IDIOT!!!! - What is he thinking???? Just now on Freedom watch

I just watched a Frontline from 2009 last night called "Ten Trillion and Counting." It says that the sum of social security, medicare, and medicaid will become equal to the entire current budget in the not too distant future. So, of these three, why is Rand only talking about social security...

the house voted to repeal Obamacare but why is there never a vote to repeal JohnsonCare? it is also mandatory.

we have to stop using this stupid word entitlements, and call them welfare

Some Republican lawmakers — still reveling in Tuesday’s statewide election sweep — are proposing an unprecedented solution to the state’s estimated $25 billion budget shortfall: dropping out of the federal Medicaid program. Far-right conservatives are offering that possibility in impassioned...

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/07/us/politics/07ttmedicaid.html?hp This will be interesting....

By Mike Lillis - 08/04/10 11:14 AM ET The long slog is all but over. After months of trying, the Senate on Wednesday voted to end debate on legislation providing states with billions of dollars in emergency Medicaid funding through the first half of 2011. The vote lends a pre-recess...

YouTube - Conway on Medicaid.mpg

By Christopher Weaver, Kaiser Health News | Kaiser Health News WASHINGTON — Starting Thursday, states can choose to take the first steps toward the massive expansion of insurance coverage that is the recent health overhaul legislation's chief goal. For some states, that move could have the...

We all know that Paul is a constitutionalist & libertarian but how does he vote on issues regarding the funding of unconstitutional programs such as Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, SCHIP, etc.? Does he vote against their fundings despite the fact that many Americans pay into the system &...

Did anyone catch the Medicaid attorney on Stossel's show? I want to buy that guy's book to see exactly how far people can go to get taxpayer funded medical care. Does anyone remember the attorney's name?

the Republicans promise to repeal Obamacare but why not add Medicaid to the mix? Medicaid people vote 99% Dem, so the hell with them it time this nonsense is also trashed and then later on destroy Medicare and Social Security

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2011367936_walgreens18m.html

God forbid people buy the diapers themselves. Nev. Medicaid cuts could lead to diaper rationing Associated Press ^ | Feb. 9, 2010 | SANDRA CHEREB CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) - Nevada officials on Tuesday outlined drastic cuts to the state's Medicaid program that include plans to ration adult...

The Senate finance panel just shot down an amendment to the committee’s health reform bill that would have required beneficiaries of Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program to show a photo ID in order to enroll. Sen. Charles Grassley (Iowa), the senior Republican on the Finance...

And make it premium-based (instead of everyone paying in) and accepting of all people with pre-existing conditions? We already have a quasi-government option, why not reduce the bureaucracy and make it accessible to all? This way, the Democrats get what they want, and the Republicans get what...

I was watching a video of Peter Schiff where he was talking about his dad selling insurance back in the 60's. This got me to thinking, has anyone done a comparison of Medicare/Medicaid promises made in the 60's and Obamacare promises? Is there a relationship here which can be exploited to...

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