Word: medicaid
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...America’s eyes remain transfixed on the economy at home and the war on terror abroad, the plight of our nation’s health care is being ignored. Medicare and Medicaid, the already-troubled social welfare programs that subsidize health care for the elderly and the poor, do not reimburse doctors enough to entice many of them into accepting new patients. The American Academy of Family Physicians estimates that at least one in six physicians turns Medicare patients away, a problem exacerbated by a 5.4 percent decrease in Medicare payments to doctors this year. It is tragic...
Schneider said he hoped to control for some of these factors by including Medicaid patients in the study. Blacks, he found, received more infrequent care under Medicaid, as well...
...tell people simply to stop working and spend all their money," says Mehmet Oz, the director of the Cardiovascular Assist Device Program at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City and a technical adviser for John Q. "Then at least they qualify for Medicaid...
...became an embarrassment to a certain "compassionate conservative" who was thinking about running for President. Now, with roughly 530,000 children enrolled, the Texas program is considered a model of how far CHIP can reach--but faces a possible $20 million shortfall. State lawmakers are looking to Washington for Medicaid money, but the Administration wants to hold the line on domestic spending in order to fund the war on terror. Working parents like the Guevaras say Governor Bush gave them peace of mind. Can President Bush help them keep...
...family in John Q., millions of Americans live in a sort of insurance netherworld--too poor for the procedure they need but not so poor that they can rely on the government to step in and pay. "There are about 84 million Americans who are covered by either Medicaid or Medicare," says Kristina Newman of the Kaiser Family Foundation. "But there are about 40 million uninsured people who are not quite old enough or poor enough to qualify. If they have a serious accident, they're really up a creek...