StateHealthandMedicaidReform

State Health and Medicaid Reform

Rhode Island Medicaid Global Waiver (August 7, 2008)
- Providence Journal: Medicaid waiver plan puts neediest at risk (August 7, 2008)
FamiliesUSA Releases Individual State Data on Anticipated Losses Due to Medicaid Regs: IL, MI, NY, TX, UT, ME, LA, FL, MO, MN, CA, AK, KY, NC, CO, PA, OR, CT (May 6, 2008)
Kaiser Report: Tight State Budgets Will Cause Medicaid and SCHIP Fiscal Crisis (April 28, 2008)
NJ Protection and Advocacy Sues State Over Waiting List (April 17, 2008)
20 States (up from 17) have made or proposed budget cuts that threaten vital services (April 16, 2008)
FamiliesUSA Reports on Link Between Lack of Health Insurance and Mortality in Multiple States: AR, IA, MI, MO, NV, NH, OH, OR, PA, VA, WV (March 26, 2008)
ANCOR Maine Association and other providers protest Medicaid and other human service cuts.

Thank you to Bonnie Jean Brooks at OHI for providing ANCOR with updates from your state. Bonnie, and other Mainers joined in protest Wednesday as part of the Maine Can Do Better Coalition, March 12, 2008 to protest cuts in services to people with disabilities and the elderly. ANCOR President Peter Kowalski at John F. Murphy Homes, Inc. testified before a packed Appropriations Committee on the impact of some of the proposed cuts. (March 21, 2008)
Commonwealth Fund: States in Action: A Bimonthly Look at Innovations in Health Policy (March 10, 2008)

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