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California Challenges Feds' Inmate Population Cap
distant memory," the administration argued in its court filings overnight Monday. "California's vastly improved prison health care system now provides inmates with superior care that far exceeds the minimum requirements of the Constitution." The cap was imposed
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Unusual Respite From Surging Health Care Costs
signals in both directions. Medicare spending grew faster in 2011, but Medicaid spending slowed down. Spending but spending for private health insurance grew modestly. More people gained health insurance as a result of the health
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Medicare Pays $415M Annually For Breast Cancer Screenings in Women Over 75Medicare spends almost as much money screening Medicine . Breast cancer screenings cost Medicare $1.08 billion annually, lead researcher School of Medicine found. Given that Medicare spends $1.36 billion a year on breast
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Judge Orders Trial in Kan. Abortion Insurance Case
A federal judge has ruled that a trial is needed to determine whether a Kansas law restricting private health insurance coverage for abortions poses a substantial obstacle to women seeking to end their pregnancies. U.S. District Judge Julie Robinson
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GOP Scoffs at Obama's "No-Negotiation" Vow on Debt
In hopes of a far-reaching "grand bargain," he offered to raise premiums, co-payments and the eligibility age for Medicare , and to slow the cost-of-living increases for Social Security benefits. House Republicans demanded more. Foreshadowing
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Stocks Open Lower, Pushing S&P 500 Down From High
37.83 after Jefferies analyst Scott A. Mushkin raised his rating on the drugstore chain to "buy" from "hold," saying the company's profits may get a boost from the flu season, Medicare drug plans and the health care overhaul.
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Stocks Open Lower, Pushing S&P 500 Down From High
37.83 after Jefferies analyst Scott A. Mushkin raised his rating on the drugstore chain to "buy" from "hold," saying the company's profits may get a boost from the flu season, Medicare drug plans and the health care overhaul.
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High Court Rejects Medicare Challenge
who say they have the right to reject Medicare in favor of continuing health coverage who receive Social Security to reject Medicare benefits. Armey, a Texas Republican say private insurance covers more than Medicare . Two other plaintiffs are wealthy individuals
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Republican Party Seems as Divided, Angry as Ever
may highlight Democratic divisions because the party's liberal wing vehemently opposes any changes to Social Security or Medicare "Whenever you lose the White House, the party's going to have ups and downs," said Republican strategist Ron Kaufman
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Column: In Washington, Compromise's Embers Flicker
issue is among the many coming up that are likely to require bipartisan solutions: guns, immigration, Social Security, Medicare and the tax code. How much each side is willing to give on them will determine whether the fiscal agreement is kindling a new
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Ghana: President Mahama to Be Inaugurated
country's electoral body. Mahama has promised to build more schools and hospitals and improve the country's failing health care system . The New Patriotic Party still claims Akufo-Addo won the election and has brought a case to the nation's Supreme Court
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No Movement: Lawmakers Dig in Heels on Debt Crisis
they are willing to raise the debt ceiling but insist any increase must be paired with significant savings from Medicare , Medicaid and other government benefit programs. President Barack Obama has said he's willing to consider spending cuts separately
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Roundtable I: This Week in Politicsboomers that are driving these deficits. It is not social security. It is not medicare or medicaid . It is the underlying dysfunctionality of our health care system and the affordable care act did not do enough to control long-term health care
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Cliff Rescue: Walking Away From The Edgebeen talking about making cuts to Medicare . For years now hasn't happened know will just have to see but Medicare accounts about 5% actually Medicare and Medicaid the government health insurance . The programs account for about
Well everyone says that Medicare is gonna be right on the table number one in areas -- people look to make cuts now Medicare is very politically sensitive and people been talking about making cuts to Medicare For years now hasn't happened is it gonna finally happen now. Everyone seems to be saying it is that you know will just have to see but Medicare accounts -- about 5% actually Medicare and Medicaid -- the government health insurance The programs account for about 5% of GDP that's set to grow to about 10% of GDP and 25 years. This is the elephant in the room they're finally needs to be some cuts made to this if we want to address this deficit issue. And specific cuts that people want to make on the Republican side. They want the beneficiaries of Medicare to heart start picking up some of the -- paying higher premiums increase in the eligibility age. Other members of congress want to go after hospitals they think there's too much fat and waste and inefficiency in the hospital so they're looking to target there. Other areas like rural hospitals teaching hospitals could also get cut but this -- in the health care industry health -- stocks. There's going to be an enormous amount of attention over the next two months but what's happened with Medicare and yet need right volatility in those sectors of. -
US Female Senators Make Historysettled I mean that's the problem. Is that there were amendments introduced to say that women wouldn't have. Access to health insurance coverage for birth control and if that's the case then we better standup that we that are speaking outside outside but
there were amendments introduced to say that women wouldn't have. Access to health insurance coverage for birth control and -- if that's the case then we better standup that we that are speaking outside outside but -
20 Female Senators Sworn in on Capitol Hillmean, that's the problem. Is that there. Reporter: Amendments produced to say that women wouldn't have access to health insurance coverage for birth control. There was a question raised about whether or not we'll really have enforcement of equal
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Fact or Fiction: The Presidential Debatefour million people on Medicare Advantage that will lose Medicare Advantage because of those seven the purchasing power Medicare and Medicaid to. Help to institutionalize million people. Losing health insurance let at a time when it's
intentioned but weren't helping kids -- We went after medical thought. In Medicare and Medicaid . Very aggressively more aggressively than ever before and that save tens of billions of dollars fifty billion dollars of -- taken out -
Roundtable: This Week in Politicsamericans in survey after survey support social security, medicare and to take social security away from widowed women sacrifice and say we won't -- we know the dynamics of medicare , medicaid and social security, the demography of this country
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Obama Names Daschle HHS Secretaryreforming our health care system and I ask a research on Medicare Medicaid long term care Children's Health Insurance Program . And she helped president's Medicare reform plan most expensive health care system in the world
She's a leading thinker on this issue nationally recognized for research on Medicare Medicaid long term care and be -- ensure. She's a policy and budget expert having served at a senior level at both the office of management and budget and the National Economic Council. She helped lead the effort in the White House to create the Children's Health Insurance Program. And she helped craft the president's Medicare reform plan and long term care -- And like Tom -- has a personality perfectly suited to reaching out and building consensus.
