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Debate About Health Law   Medicaid Expansion Is Hot Topic In State CapitolsLawmakers, officials and health advocates continue to press their policy positions on the pros and cons of expanding the Medicaid p stanley cup rogram. MedPage Today: Lawmakers Push For Medicaid ExpansionSenators on Thursday urged governors to expand their Medicaid programs under the Affordable Care Act  ACA  and pushed advocates to lobby states for the same. While many states have already said they will expand to cover individuals essentially up to 138 percent of the federal poverty level, others are still mulling the issue over.  Medicaid expansion is about protecting the most vulnerable Americans at the most vulnerable time of their lives,  Sen. Tammy Baldwin  D-Wis.  said Thursday morning at a conference here sponsored by聽Families USA, a liberal health policy group  Pittman, 1/31 .The Associated Press: Possible Debate Later On Miss. Medicaid ExpansionDemocrats in the Mississippi Legislature say they re trying to preserve the option of expanding Medicaid in the state, even though Gov. Phil Br stanley cup uk yant and other Republican leaders oppose adding hundreds of thousands more people to the government health insu stanley mug rance for the poor. The Democrats  votes helped kill a bill Thursday that would keep the existing Medicaid program in business beyond July 1. Lawmakers say there are other bills to keep the program alive  Pettus, 1/31 . Related, earlier KHN story:聽Cracks Appearing In GOP Opposition To Health Law聽 Galewitz, 1/2 Lrem Viewpoints: Is Woodward   s    Rage    Revelatory About Trump   s Incompetence Or Just More Nonsense
Thursday, Jun 11 2009Research Examines Federal Funding for Health Programs in Insular Areas, Dual Eligibles U.S. Insular Areas:  Multiple Factors Affect Federal Health Care Funding,  Government Accountability Office:  The report examines the federal funding for health programs in American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.  According to the report, there are differe yeezy nces in how such programs are funded compared with similar state programs.  For instance, Medicare pays hospitals in insular areas based on their costs instead of the prospective payment system generally used in the states.  In addition, federal Medicaid and state SCHIP program funding for insular areas is subject to statutory limits that do not affect state programs  GAO,  U.S. Insular Areas:  Multiple Factors Affect Federal Health Care Funding,  October 2005 . 6.4 Million at Risk:  Protecting the Poorest Americans During the Medicare Drug adidas samba  Transition,  Medicare Rights Center:  The report, prepared by Manatt, Phelps and Phillips for the Medicare Rights Center, examines the transition in prescription drug benefits from Medicaid to Medicare for individuals eligible for both programs -- a move called for in the 2003 Medicare law.  The report focuses on the special challenges for dual eligibles, including that they could face gaps in drug coverage, as Medicaid drug coverage ends the same day that Medicare drug coverage begins  Medicare  adidas originals ultraboost Rights Center,