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NewsMedicaid enrollees may cost more to treat under reform
Americans who will enter the Medicaid program as a result of healthcare reform will be sicker than the typical program enrollee, translating to at least higher initial costs, reports The Hill's Read more...
GOP study: Medicaid expansion will cost states billions
Expanding Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) will cost states conservatively at least $118 billion through 2023--far more than what initially was estimated, according to a report released Read more...
Opponents of health reform cite CBO job estimates
If yesterday's testimony by Congressional Budget Office Director Doug Elmendorf that the healthcare reform law could lead to 800,000 fewer people working is indicative of anything, it's that Read more...
Health reform savings not a pipe dream, says policy group
Opponents of the health reform legislation have been vocal in criticizing the savings projected by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) as the result of budgeting gimmicks and trickery rather than Read more...
Medicare/Medicaid spending a national 'threat,' says CBO
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) cites federal healthcare spending as "the single greatest threat" to the United States' budget stability in its new report, The Budget and Economic Outlook: Read more...
IRS may have to enforce proposed insurance mandate
Under the new healthcare legislation that has been proposed, the Internal Revenue Service would be charged with ensuring that American citizens had health insurance Kaiser Health News and USA Today Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: Senate reform bill could raise premiums for individual buyers, CBO says
An analysis by the Congressional Budget Office has concluded that the Senate health reform bill would raise health insurance premiums by at least 10 percent by 2016 for individual buyers. At the same Read more...
CBO: Middle-income consumers are costly under House reform bill
After all of this time and effort, the following can't be very reassuring to House Democrats championing their own brand of healthcare reform. A new analysis by the Congressional Budget Office this Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: CBO playing major role in reform politics
While analysts are as careful as possible, the Congressional Budget Office's leadership is completely willing to admit that the numbers it produces are guesstimates, at best. That, however, hasn't Read more...
CBO: Some undocumented immigrants will get insurance under reform
I guess it comes down to a case of you win some, you lose some. While it remains true that the formal language of key health reform proposals doesn't authorize health insurance coverage for illegal Read more...
| Press ReleasesMedeAnalytics Estimates Debt-Ceiling Law Could Reduce Medicare Payments to Individual Hospitals by $1.1 Million to $1.4 Million10-Year Projection Based on CBO and OMB Budget DataEMERYVILLE, Calif., Aug. 5, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- MedeAnalytics, a leading provider of healthcare performance management solutions, today released an Read more >> FreedomWorks Corrects the Obamacare Spin: Spending Money Will NOT Reduce DebtIn a desperate effort to prevent Obamacare’s repeal, Democrats argue that upturning costly legislation will increase the deficit. WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- As its first major act, the new Read more >> |
