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Jul 10 2024
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Regional West Medical Center focuses on 'positive change' amid projected ratings
Over the past year and a half, Regional West Medical Center highlighted in a press release issued Wednesday that it has worked with purpose and commitment to identify and improve areas throughout the health system to provide patients with a quality health care experience. However, these improvements won’t be reflected in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) star ratings that
Scottsbluff Star-HeraldJun 22 2017
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Senate GOP unveils Obamacare replacement; offers tax subsidies for poor, Medicaid expansion
Senate Republicans’ new Obamacare replacement plan softens the edges of the House bill that President Trump reportedly called “mean,” offering more generous tax subsidies for the poor to buy insurance and extending the lifespan of President Obama’s Medicaid expansion.
Washington TimesMay 04 2017
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Republicans voting to kill Medicaid, and the working poor, to get massive tax cuts for the rich
At its core, Trumpcare is about the massive tax cuts repealing Obamacare will bring to the rich—$7 million for each of the 400 highest-earning taxpayers. But that's not enough for them. They have to destroy Medicaid and take healthcare away from children, the disabled, the elderly, and the working poor while they're at it. Because they need more and bigger tax cuts for the rich.
Daily KosMar 18 2017
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PAUL RYAN SAYS HE’S BEEN “DREAMING” OF CUTTING MEDICAID SINCE HE WAS IN COLLEGE
Unlike the average college student, who spends their university years studying to pass the next midterm or, more realistically, planning their next alcohol-drenched bacchanalia, Paul Ryan stayed focused on loftier goals: denying health-care coverage for millions of low-income and elderly Americans. Or so he implied while defending his current effort to roll back Medicaid, via his unpopular
Vanity FairJul 11 2024
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Montana State Hospital shuffles top leadership, again
Roughly six months before its goal of applying for federal certification of the Montana State Hospital, the state health department is again juggling turnover in key leadership positions at the state’s only public adult psychiatric facility. The Warm Springs facility, a cornerstone of the state’s overall mental health system, has been a major challenge for the administration of Gov. Greg
Montana Free PressJul 10 2024
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Vice President Kamala Harris announces initiative targeting maternal mortality
Vice President Kamala Harris announced a new White House proposal targeting the U.S.’s high maternal mortality rate during a speech to her sorority sisters in Dallas on Wednesday. The policy would create baseline standards for maternal health services at hospitals. Some of these standards include mandating annual staff training on maternal health practices, according to a news release from the
The Dallas Morning NewsJul 10 2024
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Temple Health warns patients with Keystone First of possible coverage loss
From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know! Temple Health and Keystone First, one of the largest Medicaid health insurance plans in the region, are at odds over a new contract agreement, with a looming July 31 deadline. If the two parties don’t reach a new deal in the next three weeks, potentially thousands of patients may
WHYYJul 10 2024
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White House and HHS propose changes to make pregnancy safer
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is proposing new policies to reduce maternal mortality and injury in the U.S., building on the maternal mortality blueprint the White House released in 2022. Vice President Kamala Harris calls that blueprint “an unprecedented whole-of-government strategy to improve maternal care” in a Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services news release
Deseret NewsJul 02 2024
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Asher Joseph
At 9 a.m. Monday, Estefania Guanoluisa Valdez became the first undocumented teenager in Connecticut to newly enroll for health insurance with HUSKY, the state’s Medicaid program — thanks to a new state law that expands such coverage to children up to the age of 15, regardless of their immigration status.
CT News JunkieJul 10 2024
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Maryland governor proposes nearly $149M in midyear budget cuts
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Maryland Gov. Wes Moore's administration proposed nearly $149 million in midyear spending reductions on Wednesday to steer more money to help fund child care and Medicaid as state officials continue to wrestle with budget challenges. Moore will present the cuts next week to the state's Board of Public Works, which has the authority to cut up to 25% of the state's
Waco Tribune-Herald