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    Democratic Governors Call On Congress To Block Bush Administration Rules That Would Make It Harder For States To Expand SCHIP
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    She said that no state will be able to meet the 95% standard. "The effect of the rule intended or otherwise is to preclude states from covering children in low-income households" Gregoire said. Washington is one of nine states that has filed a lawsuit challenging the directive. Full Article at Medical News Today
    The effect of the rule intended or otherwise is to preclude states from covering children in low-income households
    SOURCE: Medical News Today 21 months ago
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Democratic Governors Call On Congress To Block Bush Administration Rules That Would Make It Harder For States To Expand SCHIP
  1. CMS agreed to permit Massachusetts to expand SCHIP to children at or below 300% of the federal poverty level. As a result, Medicaid and SCHIP enrollment has grown by 40,000 children, including 18,000 newly eligible because of the expansion.
    SOURCE: Medical News Today 21 months ago
  2. Because it's cheaper, you can handle a pretty significant woodwork effect, because you're going to be able to serve a lot more people.
    SOURCE: Medical News Today 21 months ago
  3. While the governors were divided about SCHIP, they were unanimous in asking Congress to stop changes that the Bush administration is seeking for Medicaid.
    SOURCE: Medical News Today 21 months ago
  4. What we did is to say to our consumers, 'you build into your monthly allowance any kind of training, any kind of in-service education, anything you want to make this person capable of performing the functions you need them to perform'
    SOURCE: Medical News Today 21 months ago
  5. But there's a 'woodwork effect,' where, if you provide benefits to people in their homes, a lot more people may claim the benefits than would have gone into the nursing home.
    SOURCE: Medical News Today 21 months ago
  6. as a practical matter in Massachusetts, this directive would leave thousands of children between 250% and 300% of the federal poverty level uninsured while their parents are covered by other features of our federally approved health care reform.
    SOURCE: Medical News Today 21 months ago
  7. I think it's probably best to deal with that this year and then have a new administration, whoever it might be, deal with that separately
    SOURCE: Medical News Today 21 months ago
  8. It is true that moving a patient from a nursing home into their own home does substantially reduce costs
    Peter Orszag – Peter Orszag SOURCE: Medical News Today 21 months ago

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