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HNR: Victory: 13 More Weeks of Unemployment Benefits; Congress Enacts and President Signs Bill Adding Domestic Items to War Funding (7/1/08) HNR: Congress Continues Push to Suspend Harmful Medicaid Regulations (4/29/08) HNR: Bill to Extend Moratoria on Medicaid Regulations Moves to Full Committee (4/14/08) HNR: Danger Looms for Children’s Health Care in 2007 (9/19/06) NYTimes: Planned Medicaid Cuts Cause Rift With States (8/13/06) Voices: Testimony - CHIP at 10: A Decade of Covering Children (7/25/06) HNR: GOP Senate Budget Resolution Squeaks Through, 51-49; Floor Action Rejects Some of the Cuts in Human Needs Services (3/17/06) => More News Policy Analyses and Research
CBPP: Expanding Medicaid a less Costly Way to Cover More Low-Income Uninsured Than Expanding Private Insurance (6/26/08) Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured: Medicaid in a Declining Economy: Limited Approaches for States to Control Spending (4/28/08) CBPP: Administration's Medicaid Regulations will Weaken Coverage, Harm States, and Strain Health Care System (2/13/08) Kaiser Commission on Medicaid & the Uninsured: Medicaid: Overview and Impact of New Regulations (January 2008) The Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured: Citizenship Documentation Requirements in Medicaid (January 2007) The Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured: Medicaid Enrollment in 50 States - June 2005 Data Update (December 2006) => More Policy Analyses and Research
Government Resources
Summary and Status of Public Law 109-171 - formerly S. 1932/H.R. 4241 "Deficit Reduction Act" (signed into law 2/8/06) This law allows states to make cuts to Medicaid services Senate Finance Committee's reconciliation bill (Chairman's mark) (10/20/05) Senate Finance Committee's short summary of reconciliation package (10/20/05) The Medicaid Commission Report to HHS Secretary Recommending $11 Billion in Cuts (9/1/05) Congressional Research Service: Medicaid Eligibility for Adults and Children (8/3/05) => More Government Resources
