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Forbes
Private health insurance companies stand to reap a bigger share of the Medicaid business as states deal with budget shortfalls and increased spending on medical care. "More states are moving away from the fragmented care of the antiquated fee-for-service model towards the capitated coordinated care model of managed care organizations,” said Jeff Myers, president and CEO of Medicaid Health Plans of America.
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Kaiser Health News
Although the GOP-controlled Congress is pledging its continued interest — despite stalls and snags — to dismantle Obamacare, some "red state" legislatures are changing course and showing a newfound interest in embracing the health law’s Medicaid expansion. And a study out Wednesday in Health Affairs adds to these discussions, percolating in places such as Kansas, Georgia, Virginia, North Carolina and Maine.
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North Carolina Health News
In a statement released last week, sponsors of House Bill 662 said the bill is aimed squarely at helping "working adults, farmers, fishermen, members of the clergy, small business owners, volunteer firefighters, service workers, caregivers and more than 12,000 veterans." The bill, called Carolina Cares, would expand the state's Medicaid program, although sponsors prefer to say the program would provide insurance options for low income workers. But Medicaid expansion it is, in a manner similar to how the state of Indiana expanded the program, requiring beneficiaries to work, and asking them to pay a small premium, two percent of household income.
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Tampa Bay Times
It was already pretty clear politically that the Florida Legislature wasn't much in the mood to expand Medicaid, especially while national Republicans have been try to dismantle the Affordable Care Act. For two years the Florida Senate has considered the idea, only to see the Florida House block them each year.
But there were Democrats in the Florida Senate on Wednesday giving it one more effort to convince Republicans who control the Legislature to once again pass an expansion of Medicaid to cover 800,000 Floridians that currently don’t have health care coverage. As the Senate began debate on a more than $83 billion budget, Senate Democratic Leader Oscar Braynon, from Miami Gardens, took to the floor and offered up an amendment to expand Medicaid.
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The Times-Picayune
Louisiana residents like Medicaid expansion but are more skeptical of the Affordable Care Act, a view that pollsters said is not due to a disconnect between the state's largest medical program and its place as a cornerstone of former President Barack Obama's signature legislative achievement. That's according to an LSU poll that asked Louisianians about their views on healthcare.
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KFOR-TV
The Oklahoma Health Care Authority is warning, if their state appropriation is cut for fiscal year 2018, many programs and benefits for Medicaid patients could be eliminated. Some of the programs and benefits being considered are pharmacy, behavioral health, durable medical equipment, the breast and cervical cancer treatment program, the waiver-funded Medically Fragile program and Program of All-inclusive Care for the Elderly, private duty nursing services, adult organ transplants, dialysis, hospice services, physical and occupational therapy, and speech, hearing and language disorder services.
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