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Posts tagged
'Medicaid'

Obamacare saves seniors billions in drug costs

Another inconvenient fact about Obamacare: In the first two years after “Obamacare” was signed, Medicare reforms in the law saved seniors a total of $3.4 billion in prescription drug costs by bridging a coverage gap, according to official figures.
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Arkansas teacher in D.C. to advocate for Medicaid

Little Rock teacher speaks at a D.C. rally in support of Medicaid.
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Bill Clinton joins Children's Hospital's 100th

Arkansas Children's Hospital, marking its 100th birthday today with an event including former President Bill Clinton among the speakers, said it had raised $100 million already toward a $160 milion goal to apply to pediatric care, research, education and prevention.

Bid to earmark surplus fails in Joint Budget

Lot of debate, but, as expected, Gov. Mike Beebe got his way. An effort in Joint Budget today to earmark part of the state's surplus for future Medicaid spending failed.
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Thursday night line is open

Here's your open line. Final words: * COME THE MEDICAID APOCALYPSE: Reporting today says DHS is now predicting a $350-$400 million budget shortfall for Medicaid in fiscal 2014.

The state budget fracas — a solution

I got some Twitter notes last night from Sen. Michael Lamoureux of Russellville on an idea emerging in the state Senate to supplant the bullet-riddled notion of Republican Rep. John Burris to take an arbitrary bite of 3 percent out of a raft of state agencies and use one-time money for Medicaid as a show of, well, something.
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Late news — DHS in the spotlight

More bad news for the State Hospital. And still more bad news on how services would suffer if a Republican Party proposal to cut Human Services spending is realized.

Republican Burris doubles down — put poor kids to work!

Republican Rep. John Burris couldn't leave well enough alone. Already on record supporting a state Mitt Romney has repudiated — about lack of concern for the very poor because of their luxurious "safety net" — he raised the ante when Talk Business asked him about it.
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State budget talks begin

Review of the state budget began today, but there's a certain Groundhog Day flavor to it given how much has already been written previously.

Restraining Medicaid at whose expense?

Interesting story today from John Lyon of Stephens Media on a Beebe administration proposal to rein in Medicaid costs by establishing service centers to handle developmentally disabled people supported by Medicaid-financed programs.
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It may get personal in debt-limit end game

With Aug. 2 now only days away, the grown-ups in Washington are starting to engage in serious discussions toward a resolution of the debt-ceiling imbroglio

The Republicans' contract on America

It can't be repeated enough: Republicans are increasingly giving full and unembarrassed voice to their belief that the American majority favors ripping the social safety net asunder if preserving it means a tax on rich people.
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