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Calif. Budget Cuts Not Over, Warns Governor - Kaiser Health News
Jerry Brown Warns More Budget Cuts Are Coming Activists who have met with administration officials said they expect cuts in health and welfare programs in particular. Casey Young, a lobbyist for AARP, said Brown's health secretary, Diana Dooley, ...
Has The Saturation Point For Under-26 Coverage Been Reached? - Kaiser Health News
“Now that the policy is in full force, enrollment is holding steady,” an Obama administration official who insisted on anonymity wrote in an e-mail to Kaiser Health News. “But that doesn't mean that the benefits for young people have ended nor that we ...
Obama And Romney Campaigns Assail The Other's Budget Plans - Kaiser Health News
Senior administration officials said the deficit blueprint that Republicans, including the party's likely 2012 presidential nominee Mitt Romney, would put teachers out of work, take away funds for violence prevention and cut medical care for millions ...
Supreme Court Braces For Health Law Frenzy - Kaiser Health News
Senior administration officials said on Tuesday that Obama will not be offering a vigorous public defense of the law, holding events or even making public remarks in the lead-up to the Supreme Court case (Parnes, 3/21). The Supreme Court has several ...
First Edition: February 13, 2012 - Kaiser Health News
An administration official not authorized to speak on the record expressed little surprise at the bishops' statement, which if anything represents a hardening of their position. “We never anticipated that this announcement would win the endorsement of ...
Obama Administration Signals Contraception Compromise - Kaiser Health News
Under the new policy, insurance companies will be required to offer free contraception for these workers, a subtle shift aimed at moving the onus from the employer to the insurer, a senior administration official said. ... The new mandate will come ...
Komen Foundation Works To Regain Balance In The Wake Of Planned Parenthood ... - Kaiser Health News
The overall tone was positive, but there were "lots of tough and candid questions" from executive directors and local board members, said (a Komen) official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal communications (Sun and Kliff, ...
First Edition: February 6, 2012 - Kaiser Health News
The overall tone was positive, but there were "lots of tough and candid questions" from executive directors and local board members, said (a Komen) official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal communications (Sun and Kliff, ...
HHS Offers Progress Report On Shrinking Medicare's Doughnut Hole - Kaiser Health News
On Thursday, administration officials said 3.6 million beneficiaries saved $2.1 billion on prescription drugs in 2011. In the first full year of the new healthcare law, 3.6 million people in the government Medicare program saved $2.1 billion on ...
Needle-Exchange Programs Face New Federal Funding Ban - Kaiser Health News
But to reach a compromise, we had to accept certain provisions that we oppose, and this is one of them,” an administration official said. There are at least 221 sterile syringe exchange programs total in 33 states and the District of Columbia, ...
Wyden Joins Forces With Ryan On Medicare - Kaiser Health News
“Why in the world he agreed to help Ryan get out of the rock he was under is beyond me,” said a former senior Senate Democratic aide who asked not to be named due to the sensitivity of the issue. “This is a bad move on a couple different levels, ...
Dems Offer Mixed Views On CLASS Act's Demise - Kaiser Health News
Obama administration officials said Wednesday they don't want to see a controversial long-term care program repealed but don't intend to implement it, either, confounding even congressional allies. At a hearing, the top Democrat on the House Energy and ...
Bracing For Deficit Panel Battle Between Defense, Health Interests - Kaiser Health News
One lobbyist, speaking on the condition of anonymity, predicted "Holy War" between the health and defense industries, and their legions of lobbyists as they try to protect their budgets ahead of the potential automatic cuts (Reid, 8/29). ...
Medicare Politics Trigger Concerns In Debt-Deal Talks - Kaiser Health News
The source, who requested anonymity, added that Republican "rank-and-file members are very, very concerned that this was the canary in the coalmine on Medicare and it's going to affect all of the other difficult votes that leadership is going to ask ...
Party Differences Emerge As Senate Nixes Current Year Spending Plans - Kaiser Health News
Despite the resounding defeat of both measures, lawmakers and administration officials said the outcome could open the door to a compromise by showing that neither side holds the power to push through its plan (Hulse, 3/9). The Democratic proposal to ...
Obama Rejects Governors' Plan to Overhaul Medicaid - Kaiser Health News
“The president said he was eager to work with states to put Medicaid on a more sustainable path,” said the senior administration official, who spoke on background. “But he wants to ensure those trade-offs aren't on the backs of children” in the ...
President To Unveil $3.7 Billion Budget Blueprint; Challenge Is To Show Fiscal ... - Kaiser Health News
... reimbursement rates for doctors by squeezing health care payments for a broad cross-section of medical providers, administration officials said. ...
Republicans Advance Plans For Senate Vote On Repealing Health Law - Kaiser Health News
The aides, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the two sides were working toward a plan to have a procedural vote on the Republican repeal measure and ...
Zeke Emanuel, Adviser On Health Reform, Leaves White House - Kaiser Health News
... on loan to the White House for the past two years, and "details from agencies are, by nature, temporary," added the official, who spoke on background. ...
Administration Reverses Federal Rule On End-Of-Life Planning - Kaiser Health News
The official spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss what has turned into an embarrassing episode for the administration. End-of-life planning is already ...
Polls Show Continued Confusion Over Health Law As Battle For Public Support ... - Kaiser Health News
Obama is not going to start trying to persuade Democrats to embrace the measure, administration officials said. He is assuming the role of solo champion, ...
Medical Loss Ratio Debate Drags On, Drags Down Stock Prices - Kaiser Health News
... the definition of what constitutes 'unreasonable' rate increases and the medical loss ratio, senior administration officials said. ...
The Crippling Costs Of Obesity In The Workplace - Kaiser Health News
A Chicago-area recruiter who requested anonymity recalled an impressive job candidate who was very professional, had all the right credentials, ...
Ambitious High-Risk Health Insurance Pools Supposed To Launch This Week - Kaiser Health News
1, an administration official said Tuesday." Premiums will vary in different states, but the program is designed to be a stopgap fix for those who can't get ...