We hope they get this sorted!
If things go according to insurers' plans they'll be the biggest beneficiaries of health care reform.
(AP) — Hundreds of Illinois residents have submitted applications for a new federally funded health insurance program for people with medical problems. Enrollment opened Friday for the program, an early benefit of the new national health care reform law. Illinois Department of Insurance Director Michael McRaith says about 370 applications were submitted during the first […]
(Crain’s) — The U.S. Senate on Wednesday passed a $26 billion jobs bill that would restore billions of dollars in Medicaid funding to the state and the city. Local lawmakers are counting on the money to avoid laying off municipal workers. The House of Representatives, which is not in session, must pass similar legislation before the […]
(Washington Examiner) — The likely collapse of an infusion of federal Medicaid funds leaves officials in Maryland and Virginia confronting hundreds of millions of dollars in new cuts, reductions that state lawmakers only months ago cast as a distant contingency. The two states expect to have about $800 million less to plug sagging budgets after […]
(Bloomberg) — Of the five doctors in the New Albany Medical Group in rural northern Mississippi, only one can accept new patients. He specializes in geriatrics. “Frankly, as people die off, he replaces them,” said Jason Dees, one of the physicians in the group in the Union County seat of New Albany, where William Faulkner […]