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House Bill Backs Safeguards on HMOs (NY Times -- free registration required)
Democrats say GOP backpedaling from budget agreement on Medicare (Fox News)
Cost Sharing in the Emergency Department -- Is It Safe? Is It Needed? (New England Journal of Medicine)
Republicans' plans advance on health care and welfare (Philadelphia Inquirer)
House Panel Backs 'Kidcare' Health Plan (Fox News)
House GOP balks on part of budget accord (Philadelphia Inquirer)
Paper: GOP Revising Insurance Plan (AllPolitics)
Welfare reform: Children first to suffer (Philadelphia Inquirer)
Georgia could soon have 50 managed-care companies (Atlanta Business Chronicle)
GOP Unveils Children's Health, Medicaid Bill (FoxNews)
Medicaid Makeover Begins in Maryland: 330,000 Patients Must Use Managed Care (Washington Post.com)
Budget Blueprint May Guide Cuts (All Politics)
Medicaid May Be Extended to Early Treatment of AIDS (NY Times -- free registration required)
Michigan Department of Community Health: Feds Approve Michigan Managed Care Waiver (PRNewswire)
Book Review: Unhealthy Societies: The Afflictions of Inequality (New England Journal of Medicine)
The National Health Service Corps and Inner-City Hospitals (New England Journal of Medicine)
The death notices of welfare "reform' (San Francisco Chronicle)
Women Dying From Pregnancy (ABC News)
States Edge Closer On Tobacco Pact (All Politics.com)
Highlights of bipartisan budget plan (MSNBC)
Clinton's crafty game (Boston Globe) regarding the Kennedy-Hatch child health amendment.
Cap Medicaid Spending? Not Sound Policy (Washington Post) Letter to editor from Governors of Nevada and Ohio.
Bill Would Let Patients Sue HMOs for Denial of Services (SF Chronicle)
Program Provides Private Health Insurance to Poor Children (NY Times -- free registration required)
White House helps ditch Kennedy bill: Children's health insurance plan defeated (Boston Globe)
Budget Deal Would Cut District's Medicaid Costs (Washington Post)
When AIDS Loosens Grip, It's Back to the Job Market (NY Times -- free registration required)
Senate Votes to Bar Late-Term Abortion: Measure Falls Short of Veto-Proof Majority (Washington Post) or read a similar article in the NY Times (free registration required)
Citing Lost Cigarette Revenue, GOP Fights Child Insurance (NY Times -- free registration required)
HMOs at Odds With Teaching Hospitals (NY Times -- free registration required)
Senate committee OKs $204 billion budget deal (Washington Times)
Budgeting for children's health (The Boston Globe)
Hatch, Kennedy Push Cigarette Tax To Cover Children's Health (All Politics)
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CA: Grim Portrait Of Health Care For State's Poor But experts upbeat on plan for S.F. safety net (SF Chronicle)
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States Cut 18,000 Families from Welfare Rolls, GAO Reports (Washington Post.com)
CA: State Awash In Medical Specialists Study also hits dearth of female, minority doctors (SF Chronicle)
Fear of Medicaid Abuse Drives States to Develop Marketing Restrictions on Managed Care Organizations (PRNewswire)
Low Income Ups Heart Attack Risk (Reuters on Yahoo)
Hospital goes where money is: Allegheny eyes shift in women's services (The Philadelphia Daily News)
Health bill draws praise, criticism from sparring business factions (Houston Business Journal)
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Some Unhealthy Side Effects / Economy's shift is swelling ranks of the uninsured (Newsday)
Children at Risk / 15% on LI have no health insurance (Newsday)
Texas: [State] Senate OKs bill that backs low-cost health insurance for children (Houston Chronicle)
Beware risk to privacy in putting medical records on Internet (Detroit News)
Privatization of Social Programs Curbed (Washington Post)
Bill opens access to doctors' profiles (St Petersburg Times)
A Rich New Business Called Poverty: As welfare programs get privatized, corporations rush in (Business Week)
When your HMO says "No Way!" (Business Week)
Elderly Immigrants Still Facing Loss Of SSI Payments Budget deal restoring aid to disabled (San Francisco Chronicle)
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Sen. Kennedy takes budget deal to task: Voices concerns; may offer amendments (The Boston Globe)
Group Health Members Approve - Kaiser Permanente and Group Health to Join Forces (PRNewswire)
Survey Underscores America's Concerns About Health Care System (PRNewswire)
Who Determines `Medical Necessity'? (Washington Post.com)
Oxford Health Plans Reports 86 Percent Earnings Increase in First Quarter (PRNewswire)
Blood companies to pay U.S. $12 million to settle health care claims (Fox News)
Americans Favor Expanding AIDS Care, Survey Finds (5/5)* (Your Health Daily)
Nurses Step up Consumer Education Efforts (PRNewswire)
The Permanently Poor: Getting a job, two very different books agree, is a slow way out of poverty, and perhaps no way at all (NY Times -- free registration required)
Budget Agreement Restores Benefits to Some Legal Immigrants (NY Times -- free registration required) SSI and Medicaid benefits restored for legal immigrants who were in U.S. before Aug 22, 1996.
Deal raises elderly's cost for Medicare (Philadelphia Inquirer)
Co-Payments for HMOs On the Rise, Study Says (Washington Post.com)
Key Questions to Have Answered Before Enrolling in an HMO (Washington Post.com)
Some Benefits For Immigrants Won't Lapse (Washington Post.com) SSI and Medicaid benefits restored for legal immigrants who were in U.S. before Aug 22, 1996.
The Budget: Deal Includes $85 Billion Tax Cut (Washington Post.com) The Washington Post reports that Vice-President Gore played a role in eliminating Medicaid per capita spending limits.
Budget plan has gains for the young and old (Philadelphia Inquirer) The Inquirer reports, among other things, that Clinton's plan to cap Medicaid payments was shelved as part of the budget deal.
Clinton, Republicans Wrap Up Budget Deal (PRNewswire)
The budget proposals (Boston Globe)
Negotiators Move to Rein in Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security (NY Times--Free registration required)
Doctors and Hospitals Chase Low-Income Pregnant Women (Wall Street Journal: no free access) Hospitals are finding pregnant women who qualify for Medicaid to be a lucrative customer base. While managed care companies provide reimbursements for childbirth procedures that provide hospitals ever slimmer profit margins, state and federal programs to encourage low-income women to seek pre-natal care have, in some states, generated Medicaid reimbursements that far exceed what the managed care companies offer. This has resulted in marketing schemes by private hospitals to attract low-income pregnant women that include professionally produced videos, glossy brochures, and even gifts.
Managed Care Solutions Announces Renewal Of Indiana Medicaid Contract (PRNewswire)
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