Word: medicaid
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...slash spending and tack on fees and taxes. What they are pondering ranges from the relatively painless (new taxes on tobacco and expanding gaming and lotteries) to the inconvenient (shortening hours at DMV and welfare offices) to the positively painful (closing hospitals, parks-and-recreation departments and libraries, cutting Medicaid, raising college tuitions and laying off thousands of state employees...
...both the disease and the drug became wildly popular. But the enormous numbers of children taking the drug suggest that the normal exuberance of childhood has been declared treatable. Studies on the use of drugs such as Ritalin have proven their amazing popularity. A 1995 study of a Medicaid program in the Midwest, for example, showed that over 10 percent of children age two to four were taking Ritalin or another stimulant...
That's not the case in Vermont, where Medicaid spending on prescription drugs jumped from $40 million in 1998 to $115 million last year. There, according to a new law, a drug company can be fined $10,000 for every physician's gift in excess of $25 that it fails to report to a state registry. Massachusetts, Maine, New York and Wisconsin are considering similar legislation. "Doctors don't want their names in public as taking money or tickets or whatnot from drug companies," says Vermont Governor Howard Dean...
...purchase drugs at a discounted rate, saving patients money and allowing more people to get the prescriptions they need. She shows an unparalleled dedication to expanding coverage to the poor by implementing preferred drug purchasing and allowing uninsured residents to purchase discounted drugs under the state’s Medicaid plan...
...contacted residential treatment centers in her area, but administrators told her that her Medicaid insurance would not cover the services she needed. The only way they could take Caleb, they said, would be to persuade the state to fund his treatment. And to do that, Adams would have to relinquish custody of her son to the state's child-welfare system. "I didn't want to give him up to get him the help he needed, but I couldn't protect him from himself," Adams says. "I had to do something, and as awful as it is, this...