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2005 General News

Medicaid-eligible seniors: Call your pharmacy today

  • By: Lincoln [NE] Journal Star
  • 12/30/2005
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Rx Plan: No Real Reason To Worry. Some Already Enrolled; Deadline Isn't Until May.

Poor youths lack dental care. Medicaid a barrier in state, study says.

  • By: Louisville Courier-Journal
  • 12/29/2005
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Senate Approves Cuts, but Not Drilling

Study: Medicare misses drug discounts

  • By: St Petersburg Times
  • 12/22/2005
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Hard Hearts in Congress

  • By: Editorial, Boston Globe
  • 12/22/2005
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With Cheney's Vote, Senate Passes Budget Bill

Revenue Is Starting to Burn Holes in States' Pockets

Senate imposes budget cuts - barely - that trim Medicaid and student loans

  • By: Christian Science Monitor
  • 12/21/2005
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AARP officials say they will remember budget bill in '06

House Budget Bills Face Senate Fight

Budget Accord Could Mean Payments by Medicaid Recipients

For the Most Needy, A Tough Switch. The Frail and Mentally Ill May Get a Rude Jolt When Medicare Drug Program Goes Live Jan. 1.

Nursing homes uneasy about Medicare plan

Congressional Leaders Agree to $42 Billion in Budget Cuts

House Approves $39.7 Billion Spending Cut

U.S. House Wraps Up Budget With Defense Plan, Spending Cuts

Though revenues up, states stay thrifty

  • By: Christian Science Monitor
  • 12/16/2005
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GOP Leaders Bargain Cuts Through the House

New Problems in Medicare Drug Benefit

A Religious Protest Largely From the Left. Conservative Christians Say Fighting Cuts in Poverty Programs Is Not a Priority.

Blagojevich seeks plan to widen kids insurance

House and Senate Still Far Apart on Medicaid Changes

The Burden of Medicaid Cuts

  • By: Editorial, New York Times
  • 12/12/2005
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New Health Plan Faulted. Members In Survey Less Satisfied, Forgo Care More Often.

Florida legislature approves Medicaid overhaul

States saddled with delays for Medicare drug sign-up

Katrina's Emotional Damage Lingers. Mental Health Experts Say Impact Is Far Beyond What They've Ever Faced.

F.D.A. Official Becomes 3rd to Quit Agency Since Summer

Frist supporters doubtful on Medicare drug benefit

AARP ads fight Medicaid changes

Republicans Find They Have to Sell Drug Benefit Plan

Employer-Backed Health Care Is Here to Stay, for Lack of a Better Choice

Health Coverage of Young Widens With States' Aid

Pressure Mounts to Extend Deadline for Drug Benefit

Smith: No cuts in Medicaid, food stamps. Congess - The senator from Oregon says he and six other Republicans won't vote for a budget bill containing the cuts.

  • By: Portland Oregonian
  • 12/02/2005
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Agency Uncovers Problems in Drug Discount Program

Drugmakers Win Exemption in House Budget-Cutting Bill

Glitch inflates Medicare drug costs

Starving The Beast

  • By: Op/Ed, Washington Post
  • 11/29/2005
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Pitching a Do-Nothing Approach to Medicare. Private insurers tell clients to sit tight as new drug plan rolls out. But advocates urge caution.

Medicaid Cutbacks Divide Democrats. House Condemns Provisions Crafted By Governors.

Delicate choice just got tougher. Circumcision may protect against HIV infection, new studies suggest. But more parents are forgoing the surgery.

Insurers' Tactics in Marketing Drug Plan Draw Complaints

Catholic hospitals under fire. Study targets rising income at nonprofits. A Latino advocacy group says hospitals are doubling their profits at the expense of the uninsured.

New Drug Benefit Questioned. Democrats' Report Cites Lower Prices From VA and in Canada.

Medicare relies on ad blitz to roll out its drug plan

Families file lawsuit over Medicaid, demand reforms

  • By: South Florida Sun-Sentinel
  • 11/22/2005
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Dental Health Aides Face D.C. Opposition

  • By: AP/ Atlanta Journal-Constitution
  • 11/21/2005
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Governors Write Their Own Prescriptions for Healthcare Crisis

  • By: Column, Los Angeles Times
  • 11/21/2005
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Doctors Objecting to Planned Cut in Medicare Fees

House Republicans Eke Out Budget Cut

G.O.P. Forces Nearly $50 Billion in Budget Cuts Through House

After years of scrimping, it's states' time to spend

Healthcare lobbyists stand back as budget bill implodes

House GOP Seeks Votes for Budget-Cut Bill

Problems Cited in Medicare Drug Benefit Sign-Up

Blagojevich signs 'All Kids' health insurance plan

  • By: AP/Chicago Tribune
  • 11/16/2005
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Advocacy groups sue over new Medicare plan

  • By: AP/Seattle Post-Intelligencer
  • 11/15/2005
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FDA's Actions on Pill Faulted. A GAO report bolsters charges that the agency bowed to politics over a 'morning-after' drug.

House “Reconciliation” Bill Makes Poor People–Especially Children–Pay the Price

  • By: National Health Law Program
  • 11/15/2005
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States Resurrect Topic of Medical Care. As employer-based coverage shrinks, lawmakers in capitals across the country are trying to address the needs of the uninsured.

GOP cools to Katrina aid. Rush to finance reconstruction slows as budget hawks revolt.

Another Choice for Elderly: Charity or Medicare?

Senate Passes Budget With Benefit Cuts and Oil Drilling

Drug plans are being assigned. Medicaid patients under Medicare start to be enrolled.

  • By: San Francisco Chronicle
  • 11/03/2005
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Congress Is Warned of Veto if Insurance Funding Is Cut

2 New Approaches May Reduce Cervical Cancer Deaths for Poor

Hatch, Lieberman promote minority health care

Alito Nomination Sets Stage for Ideological Battle

Congress Weighs Big Cuts to Medicaid and Medicare

Congress Mounts Drive for Big Budget Cuts

Hospital inequalities widen the care gap

Medicaid, Medicare savings unveiled

  • By: AP/Seattle Post-Intelligencer
  • 10/21/2005
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States Protest Contributions to Drug Plan

  • By: The New York Times
  • 10/18/2005
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80% of Poor Lack Civil Legal Aid, New LSC Study Says

U.S. hazardous to health of Mexican entrants, study says

  • By: Reuters/Arizona Daily Star
  • 10/14/2005
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Nonprofit Hospital Chain Gouges the Uninsured, Suit Says

As Deadline Nears, Sorting Out the Medicare Drug Plan

Liberal Hopes Ebb in Post-Storm Poverty Debate

Medicare Drug Benefit Outlined in Campaign. As Enrollment Is Set to Begin, Ads and Other Outreach Seek to Educate Eligible Citizens.

Shut Out on Healthcare After Storm. Many hurricane victims don't qualify for aid if their insurance coverage vanished with their jobs.

Hurricanes impair services for mentally ill in La.

GOP Divided Over Range and Severity of Spending Cuts

On the backs of the poor

  • By: Editorial, Boston Globe
  • 10/06/2005
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New Medicare Handbook Has an Error

Conservatives Welcome Bush Vow on Budget

Strict rules cordon off Medicaid for displaced. Effort to relax guidelines stalls.

  • By: New Orleans Times-Picayune
  • 10/05/2005
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Medicare prescription-drug plan stumps seniors

Program Offers Health Care for Some Part-Time Workers

Medicaid Fraud Focus of Review

Bush chooses White House counsel for Supreme Court

  • By: AP / Minneapolis Star-Tribune
  • 10/03/2005
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GOP seeks cuts to ease cost of cleanup. Plan targets Medicaid, other social programs.

Roberts Confirmed as 17th Chief Justice

Where to find $200 billion to pay for Katrina

  • By: Christian Science Monitor
  • 09/30/2005
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Expansion of Medicaid For Evacuees Backed. Senators, Governors Press Administration.

Gov't Split on Katrina Victim Health Care

  • By: AP/San Francisco Chronicle
  • 09/29/2005
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Senators Fume at White House Disdain for Katrina Healthcare Plan. Finance Committee members of both parties want to give Medicaid to victims for months. A Cabinet member says that's unnecessary.

Group: More Medicaid money during hard times

Leader of the F.D.A. Steps Down After a Short, Turbulent Tenure

Limiting Government's Role. Bush favors one-time fixes over boosting existing programs to help Katrina victims.

Mississippi Medicaid getting help for Katrina health coverage

  • By: AP / Jackson Sun-Herald
  • 09/23/2005
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FDA Commissioner Lester Crawford Resigns

Conservatives seek to offset costs of Katrina. Cuts include postponement of drug benefit.

  • By: South Florida Sun-Sentinel
  • 09/22/2005
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Republicans offer spending cuts

National Governors Association Supports Bill To Extend Medicaid Coverage to Hurricane Evacuees

Carnahan joins Missouri Medicaid debate

  • By: St. Louis Post-Dispatch
  • 09/21/2005
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FDA Rethinks Women's Chief. Toigo Is Acting Head; Agency Denies Naming Veterinary Official.

Bush Opposes Delay in Medicare Drug Benefit

For Fast Federal Action On the Katrina Health Crisis

  • By: Op/Ed, Washington Post
  • 09/20/2005
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Disabled Group Protests Medicaid Cut Plan

  • By: San Francisco Chronicle
  • 09/20/2005
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Premium for Basic Medicare Increasing 13% Next Year

Plan will pay evacuee health care costs

States will see Medicaid rolls increase with evacuees

  • By: AP / Daytona Beach News-Journal
  • 09/16/2005
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Feds to cover evacuees' Medicaid cost. Texas officials say the number of Katrina victims in the state may rise to 383,000.

Sen. Grassley Introduces Measure That Would Ease Medicaid Eligibility Rules for Hurricane Survivors

Medicaid's red tape entangles evacuees

Study Says Uninsured Lack Follow-Up Care

1 million U.S. children are caregivers. Kids shoulder burden to care for families.

Frist says Katrina might cancel Medicaid cuts

Dental Health Getting Worse for Some, Report Says

Culture gaps could inhibit counseling of Katrina victims

Culture gaps could inhibit counseling of Katrina victims

Medicaid Eases Sign-up for Katrina Evacuees

In the Floods, Parties' Agendas Surface. Post-Hurricane Crisis Presents an Opportunity to Pursue Longtime Goals.

Hurricane may help advocates protect Medicaid, food stamps from planned cuts

Lawmakers vow hurricane Medicaid boost

A Legal System in Shambles

Congress postpones cuts to Medicaid program

Hurricane's Toll Is Likely to Reshape Bush's Economic Agenda

Is Plan B 'Unsafe'? Current Research Does Not Support Fears Of Day-After Pill Dangers.

Miss. seeks federal aid to pay evacuees' Medicaid costs

  • By: Jackson Clarion-Ledger
  • 09/06/2005
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Katrina Aftermath: CDC flies in to deal with health crisis

  • By: Atlanta Journal-Constitution
  • 09/06/2005
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Curing Health Costs: Let the Sick Suffer

  • By: Op/Ed, New York Times
  • 09/02/2005
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Co-pays, drug cuts to save Medicaid $11 bln-report

Anger rises among Mississippi's poor after Katrina

Missouri's Medicaid Shame: Feeding tubes optional

  • By: Editorial, St Louis Post-Dispatch
  • 08/31/2005
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Even the insured can buckle under health care costs

US official defends 'morning-after' pill delay

Critical Votes Loom For Hill Republicans. Party to Set Cuts to Entitlement Spending.

Cut Medicaid? OK, but what then? The answer. The alternative to private market obvious but difficult.

Some Good News Amid Medicaid Troubles

  • By: http://www.infozine.com/news/stories/op/storiesView/sid/9839/
  • 08/25/2005
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The Moral-Hazard Myth: The bad idea behind our failed health-care system.

Family Caregivers Suffer Health, Money Woes, U.S. Study Finds

Medicare Law Prompts a Rush for Lobbyists

'Navigator' guides patients of color

Federal Funds For Abstinence Group Withheld

GOP sells seniors on new drug benefit

Health cuts are the real 'death tax'

  • By: Op/Ed, Los Angeles Times
  • 08/21/2005
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Lawmakers want more control over costly Medicaid program

  • By: AP/Seattle Post-Intelligencer
  • 08/19/2005
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[Congressman] Cummings asks Medicare to close gap in medical treatment for blacks, whites

Doctors Argue Against Higher Co-Payments for Medicaid

Race Gap Persists In Health Care, Three Studies Say. Blacks Get Fewer Tests, Less Therapy and Medicine.

Help wanted at your drugstore

Prices of Drugs for Elderly Said to Far Outrun Inflation

Rulings Trim Legal Leeway Given Medicaid Recipients

S.C. Proposing to Redefine Medicaid

  • By: AP / Las Vegas Sun
  • 08/15/2005
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Black Leaders Urge Shared Health Knowledge

  • By: AP / Las Vegas Sun
  • 08/14/2005
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Medicaid patients, beware. Changes may mean fewer benefits next year.

  • By: Gannett/Detroit Free Press
  • 08/11/2005
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Medical bills also trouble insured

  • By: Detroit Free Press
  • 08/11/2005
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Lower Costs Seen for Premium in Medicare Drug Benefit Plan

Bush: Health and energy costs dragging economy

  • By: Philadelphia Inquirer
  • 08/10/2005
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Health Coaches to Aid Medicare Patients

Another way to cut medical costs: Split your pills

Medicare promotes drug plan subsidy

  • By: Atlanta Journal Constitution
  • 08/07/2005
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Morning-after veto. Gov. George Pataki strikes down bill for contraception, vowing to help lawmakers write a replacement.

Roberts Donated Help to Gay Rights Case

Cracks Found in Medicaid Verification

Plight of Uninsured Children Underscored

Leavitt Praises Governors on Medicaid

Medicaid is a social contract with America

Workers swelling rolls of Medicaid. Many choose it over private health plans.

Welfare reform opens Medicaid to millions

Medicaid cutbacks painful as US states push reforms

Medicare, 40 and growing, shows its financial age

  • By: Atlanta Journal-Constitution
  • 07/31/2005
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7 Dem women want to know Roberts' stand on privacy. Senators say his view is key to keeping gay, abortion rights.

  • By: San Francisco Chronicle
  • 07/29/2005
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Study: Gaps in Insurance Affects Kids

Industry Hails Its Medicine Subsidies for Poor. Drug firms 'are getting it,' says a lobbyist, citing their program's aid to about 250,000 -- part of an effort to head off a prescription import bill.

Signs point to repercussions of kids being poorer. Progress has stalled, report shows.

Governors Urge Focus on Medicaid

Gap in immigrant health care noted. Spending 55% less for immigrants than U.S.-born residents.

  • By: Dallas Morning News
  • 07/26/2005
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Court nominee does well in poll; Rove does not

Drug Firms' $50-Million California Prescription

Medicare writing up one complicated prescription

Bush Urges Retirees to Get Behind His 'Senior Security Package'

Former political foes patch up differences to tout health care

  • By: Philadelphia Inquirer
  • 07/22/2005
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Attorney General in New York Pushes to Punish Medicaid Fraud

A Brief on the Nominee. He's low-key, smart and effective and does not come with much political baggage. As a lawyer, he argued cases across the spectrum.

Analysis: Roberts' limited time on the bench makes him a bit of an unknown -- but he may alter the balance of a split court.

  • By: San Francisco Chronicle
  • 07/20/2005
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Governor Adds Muscle to Curb Medicaid Fraud

Crawford confirmed by Senate to lead FDA

Clinton says the government isn't doing its part for Latinos

  • By: Knight Ridder/Salt Lake Tribune
  • 07/19/2005
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As Medicaid Balloons, Watchdog Force Shrinks

Governors Discuss Concerns Over Medicare

New York Medicaid Fraud May Reach Into Billions

Officials' Pitch for Drug Plan Meets Skeptics

Veterans health funds fall short

Panel Finds Misinformation in White House Web Site on Teenagers

White House to Ask for Yet More Vet Care

  • By: AP/San Francisco Chronicle
  • 07/13/2005
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The Evolution of Hillary Clinton

Medicare patients face coverage gap. New fed benefit plan will pay less than half of the tab for people with lots of prescriptions.

  • By: Scripps Howard/Dertoit News
  • 07/12/2005
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Drug Plan May Hurt Some It's Meant to Help. A cost-saving plan could jeopardize people with special needs who straddle the Medicare and Medicaid programs, advocates say

Prices Cited in Health Cost Gap. A study finds that although the U.S. spends more for care than elsewhere, Americans don't always get more.

Sundquist to lead U.S. panel on Medicaid. His TennCare legacy causes some to scoff.

  • By: Nashville Tennessean
  • 07/11/2005
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Universal Health Care Push Being Revived

Child Insurance Program May Face Crunch

Tax revenues strengthen state budgets

  • By: Seattle Post-Intelligencer
  • 07/08/2005
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Study: Health costs hurt women

  • By: Minneapolis Star-Tribune
  • 07/08/2005
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Rival Drug Discount Plans on Fall Ballot in California

Study Says Malpractice Payouts Aren't Rising

Drug firms heavy on lobbyists. A study says more than half of them once worked in government.

  • By: Bloomberg News/Philadelphia Inquirer
  • 07/07/2005
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Law may cost poorest seniors some health benefits

Senators Ask Drug Giant to Explain Grants to Doctors

Mass. Gov. Romney's health care plan says everyone pays

O'Connor Used Vote to Entrench Right to Abortion

Associations' Policies Under Scrutiny. Millions buy health insurance through trade and other groups. But alliances and claims of misrepresentation raise concerns.

States Rejecting Demand to Pay for Medicare Cost

Poll: 74% Oppose State Medicaid Cuts

  • By: Stateline.org/Kansas City Infozine
  • 07/03/2005
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O'Connor, First Woman Supreme Court Justice, Resigns After 24 Years

Core of Leavitt's Team Dates To His Days as Utah Governor

Survey Shows Strong Support for Medicaid

Medicaid Told to Do More to Stop Fraud

Medicaid Overpaying for Drugs, U.S. Auditors Say

VA Faces $2.6 Billion Shortfall in Medical Care

U.S. Report Faults States' Medicaid Tactics

Racial Disparities Found in Pinpointing Mental Illness

In Effort to Pare Medicaid, Long-Term Care Is Focus

Medicare Won't Cover Some Anxiety Drugs

New Publication from NHeLP: Children's Health under Medicaid: A National Review of Early Periodic Screening, Diagnosis and Treatment - 1999-2003

  • By: National Health Law Program
  • 06/24/2005
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Funds for Health Care of Veterans $1 Billion Short

Wal-Mart Is Focal Point Of Democrats' Health Bill

Diabetes outreach falling short with uninsured and minority victims

  • By: South Florida Sun Sentinel
  • 06/22/2005
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[MA Governor] Romney eyes penalties for those lacking insurance. Costs are key in health plan.

Drug industry at odds with GOP on Medicaid spending

Drug price growth slows; health costs keep rising

Pay up or get out: Gov reveals health plan

Spending on pills moderates, easing healthcare costs

  • By: Christian Science Monitor
  • 06/20/2005
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Bush, Touting Drug Plan, Encounters Protests Over Social Security

U.S. Healthcare Problem Too Big for Employers and Workers

Medicaid's Tentacles: Gee, Fixing Welfare Seemed Like a Snap

Bush hits road to talk up new prescription-drug benefit

Bush Begins Campaign to Publicize Medicare Drug Benefit

Deeper Cuts Had Been Sought in Tobacco Case. U.S. prosecutors had been told to slash their request for sanctions on the industry to as low as $6 billion, sources say.

Dems criticize NGA's new Medicaid plan

More State Medicaid Power Urged. Coalition of Governors Proposes Slowing Program's Spending.

Governors' Group Proposes Medicaid Curbs

HIV striking more women in South

Medicare Officials Insisting on Wider Choices in Drug Benefits

'Underinsured' skimping on health care, study says

Republican senator declines to serve on administration's Medicaid commission

Study: Many immigrants lack health coverage

  • By: Atlanta Journal-Constitution
  • 06/14/2005
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More live to pass on HIV. African-American men infected at alarming rates; life-prolonging drugs plus ignorance speeds spread.

  • By: Atlanta Journal-Constitution
  • 06/14/2005
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One Nation, Uninsured

  • By: Op/Ed, New York Times
  • 06/13/2005
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Efforts to curb abortion proliferate at state level

  • By: Christian Science Monitor
  • 06/13/2005
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Insurers Make Bids for Medicare Drug Plan

2 Senators Studying Ties Between Drug Makers and Purchasers for Federal Programs

When doctors learn, drug firms often pay the tab

  • By: Philadelphia Inquirer
  • 06/09/2005
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Caring for uninsured raises costs for others, group says

Drug Safety Panel Is Criticized. Efforts to Protect Consumers at Risk, Say Senator, FDA Official.

Grassley b