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In Some States, Opposition To Medicaid Expansion Leading Employers To Brace For Higher Health Care Costs

Posted on February 11, 2013 by TRP

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The Wall Street Journal reports on this trend. Meanwhile, other news outlets report on state-specific developments regarding the debates over expanding the health program for low-income people.

The Wall Street Journal: In Medicaid, A New Health-Care Fight

Employers in several states are bracing for higher health-care costs as some governors, worried about the impact on state budgets from the federal overhaul, resist a planned Medicaid expansion (Radnofsky, 2/10).

Kaiser Health News: Medicaid Transformation Watched Closely In Florida

This week the federal government signed off on the first part of a plan that could eventually steer more than 3 million low-income Floridians on Medicaid into a managed care, or HMO system. The decision comes two years after Florida lawmakers approved the conversion in an attempt to control costs in the $21 billion program (Hatter, 2/8).

Stateline: Seizing Medicaid Expansion As A Means to Reform

Just two states have governors who are physicians. Democrat John Kitzhaber of Oregon is an emergency room doctor. Republican Robert Bentley of Alabama is a dermatologist. Their states may have little in common, but the medically trained governors have embraced similar Medicaid reforms (Vestal, 2/11).

MORE:  In Some States, Opposition To Medicaid Expansion Leading Employers To Brace For Higher Health Care Costs – Kaiser Health News.

 

 


 

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