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Health policy strategist: Not expanding Medicaid will cost Texas hospitals $2 billion a year

Source: Dallas Morning News - Blogs, Nov 30 2012, 4:53pm CST

UPDATED, 5:20 p.m.: The pile of greenbacks Texas may leave on the table is more like $6 bil a year, not the $7 billion in my original post, Anne Dunkelberg has clarified. Original post: If Texas leaders turn down the federal health law’s Medi ...

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6 hours ago

A Nonfuzzy Take on Texas's Budget

Source: Wall Street Journal  |   Jun 17 2013, 5:28pm CDT

The June 15 letter from the Texas legislature's Jim Pitts and Tommy Williams takes exception to your June 8 editorial "Texas Goes Sacramento," which notes that the Texas Public Policy Foundation calculated a 26% increase in general ...

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8 hours ago

The concept of "surplus" in The Upside Down Constitution

Source: Balkinization  |   Jun 17 2013, 3:40pm CDT

For the symposium on Michael Greve's The Upside Down Constitution (Harvard University Press 2012). A key concept in Mike Greve's book is the idea of "surplus." This concept helps Greve explain the political motivations f ...

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28 weeks ago


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"If you think about, for example, in the state of Texas, if they don’t expand, that’s close to $2 billion of revenue for Texas hospitals and at a time when they are essentially going to be paying for the ACA expansions for everybody else ... So the math here is even more dire than it was … . The math will start to overtake the politics as the governors start to really understand what the economics are her for the providers — because again, the governor gets to decide whether these providers are going to go out of business."


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11 hours ago

Arizona takes a sane and logical path on Medicaid expansion

Source: HealthBusinessBlog  |   Jun 17 2013, 1:22pm CDT

The fact that so many states are opposing the expansion of Medicaid that comes with Obamacare is a sign of the crazy political world in which we live, where many conservative Republicans automatically oppose whatever Presid ...

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13 hours ago

Governor signs Nelson's bills as veto period ends

Source: Flower Mound Leader  |   Jun 17 2013, 10:53am CDT

"I'm pleased several important pieces of legislation are now on their way to becoming law," Nelson said. "These bills will make a positive impact on the lives of Texas families and businesses." Perry signed many significant pieces of legislation by Ne ...

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13 hours ago

THCA: Legislature Takes Needed Step Forward With 6% Medicaid Rate Increase For Texas Seniors' Nursing Home Care

Source: PR Newswire  |   Jun 17 2013, 10:33am CDT

AUSTIN, Texas, June 17, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Saying a resolution to the longstanding shortfall between the actual cost of providing quality nursing home care and what the State actually reimburs ...

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18 hours ago

Hogg Foundation invests $126,000 to expand mental health care in San Antonio

Source: San Antonio Business Journal  |   Jun 17 2013, 6:14am CDT

James Aldridge oversees online content of the newspaper; edits and reports stories for the online edition. Clarity Child Guidance Center has been awarded a $126,745 grant from the Hogg Foundation to expand childre ...

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21 hours ago

Why Centene Is A Good Opportunity

Source: Seeking Alpha  |   Jun 17 2013, 3:06am CDT

This year, the Patient Protection and the Affordable Care Act, or PPACA, jointly known as Obamacare, has brought positive changes that will benefit both the U.S. citizens as well as the health care providers. It plans to qua ...

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1 day ago

States Ease Use of Life Policies for Elder Care

Source: Wall Street Journal  |   Jun 16 2013, 7:39pm CDT

By Kelly Greene State lawmakers are encouraging elderly residents to use life insurance as a way to pay for long-term care—and lower the Medicaid tab in the process.The strategy marks a tacit endorsement of so-called li ...

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2 days ago

Perry Expands Autism Insurance Benefits in Texas

Source: Autism Speaks  |   Jun 15 2013, 9:57am CDT

AUSTIN (June 15, 2013) -- Gov. Rick Perry has signed a bill expanding autism insurance benefits in Texas by eliminating any age caps for state-regulated health plans. In 2007, Perry signed legislation tha ...

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