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2006
WashPost: Getting Stuck with the Tab (2/21/06) (More Families Will Get Stuck with Nursing Home Costs) HNR: House Cuts $38.8 Billion from Budget; Slashes Health Care, Student Loans, Child Support and Help for People with Disabilities (2/3/06) NYTimes: CBO Finds Budget Bill Will Hurt Poor Pepole on Medicaid (1/30/06)
2005
NYTimes: Budget Accord Could Mean Payments by Medicaid Recipients (12/20/05) WashPost: GOP Leaders Agree to $41.6 Billion Spending Cut (12/19/05) NYTimes: House and Senate Still Far Apart on Medicaid Changes (12/12/05) HNR: House and Senate to Attempt Passing a Final Bill Cutting Aid to Poor (12/9/05) NYTimes Ed: Profiles in Pusillanimity (12/6/05) NYTimes: Health Coverage of Young Widens with States' Aid (12/4/05) NYTimes: GOP Forces $50 Billion in Budget Cuts Through House (11/18/05) LA Times: States Trying to Address Needs of Uninsured (11/14/05) HNR: House Leadership Can't Dig Up Votes to Slash Medicaid, Child Support, Food Stamps, SSI, and Foster Care (11/11/05) Philadelphia Inquirer Editorial: Budget Cuts - Children and Poor Unfairly Targeted (11/9/05) Houston Chronicle Editorial: GOP Budget Will Harm Children to Finance Tax Cuts for Top Earners (11/9/05) NYTimes Editorial: Congress' Sham Budget (11/6/05) HNR: House Committees Slash Medicaid, Child Support, SSI, and Foster Care; Reduce Planned Increases for Child Care (10/28/05) HNR: Senate Budget Committee Approves Nearly $40 Billion in Cuts to Entitlement Program (10/28/05) HNR: Congress Enacts Legislation to Extend Medicare Premium Subsidies and Transitional Medicaid; Also Shores Up Shrinking Unemployment Funds for Gulf States (10/28/05) WashPost: Republicans Cut Student Aid; Foster Care; Child Support and Other Programs (10/26/05) NY Times: Federal Government Gives Florida Sweeping Right to Limist Medicaid (10/20/05) WashPost: House GOP Leaders Postpone Vote on Reductions in Spending (10/20/05) USAToday: Evacuee Benefits Differ by State (10/10/05) HNR: Conservatives Continue to Press for Cuts to Low-Income Services and New Tax Breaks for Wealthy (9/30/05) HNR: Hurricane Victims Needing Help Encounter Red Tape, Courtesy of White House, Congress (9/30/05) NYTimes Editorial: Health Care for Katrina Victims (10/4/05) WashPost Op-Ed: For Fast Federal Action on the Katrina Health Crisis (9/20/05) HNR: Washington Focuses on Aiding Gulf Coast Victims (9/16/05) HNR: Reconciliation Delayed: Congress Puts Off Cuts to Food Stamps and Medicaid (9/16/05) NYTimes Editorial: Congress Finesses the Storm (9/14/05) NYTimes Op-Ed: Curing Health Costs: Let the Sick Suffer (9/1/05) Boston Globe Editorial: Declining Health (8/31/05) NYTimes: U.S. Poverty Rate Was Up Last Year (8/31/05) WP: Poverty Rate Rises to 12.7 Percent (8/31/05) WashPost: Critical Votes on Budget Cuts Loom for Republicans (8/28/05) Houston Chronicle: Cut Medicaid? What Then? The Answer (8/24/05) NY Times: Doctors Argue Against Higher Co-Payments for Medicaid (8/18/05) WashPost: South Carolina Proposing to Redefine Medicaid (8/16/05) TomPaine.com: States Shred Their Safety Net With "Section 1115" Waiver To Medicaid (8/15/05) NY Times: Rulings Limit Legal Rights of Poor People To Medicaid (8/15/05) USAToday: Workers Swelling Rolls of Medicaid (8/2/05) WP Editorial: Governors' Medicaid Plans Go Too Far (8/1/05) HNR: Expanding Health Coverage for Children with Disabilities Still a Possibility in Senate (7/22/05) HNR: Advocates Propose Medicaid Savings to Avoid Harming Low-Income People (7/22/05) WP Op-Ed: In Defense of Success: Government Really Can Lessen Poverty (7/19/05) HNR: TANF Extended for the 10th Time (7/1/05) NY Times: Long-Term Care Is Focus of Effort to Pare Medicaid (6/27/05) NYTimes Op-Ed: One Nation, Uninsured (6/13/05) LA Times: Democrats Refuse Seats on Medicaid Commission (5/27/05) HNR: Administration-Appointed Commission to Draw Plans for Cutting $10 Billion From Medicaid (5/20/05) HNR: Reconciliation Instructions Put Human Needs Programs at Risk (5/20/05) NY Times: New Panel Will Study Medicaid With Eyes Towards Major Changes (5/12/05) Dallas Morning News: Congress Places Burden of Cuts on Those Least Likely to Vote: Medicaid Recipients (5/8/05) NYTimes: States Propose Sweeping Changes to Cut Medicaid by Billions (5/9/05) HNR: Congress Approves a Final Budget Resolution (4/29/05) WP: GOP Leaders Reach Budget Deal (4/28/05) NY Times: Medicaid Panel is Key to Congressional Budget Deal That Would Include Cuts (4/27/05) LA Times: States Make Severe Cuts to Medicaid; Missouri Poised to Abolish It (4/24/05) HNR: Budget Conference Committee to Contemplate Deep Cuts to Human Needs Programs (4/15/05) NYTimes: US Faults Medicaid Accounting in 15 States (4/12/05) HNR: FY 2006 Budget Resolutions Clear House, Senate Floor (4/1/05) Medicaid Matters: New Online Toolkit to Organize Support for Medicaid (3/25/05) NY Times: In Blow to Bush, Senate Rejects Cuts to Medicaid (3/18/05) HNR: House and Senate Committees Pass Budget Resolutions for FY 2006 (3/11/05) NCJW: Opposes Medicaid Cuts (3/7/05) Kaiser Family Foundation: Governors, Bush Still Have Differences on Medicaid; NGA Asks Congress for Support in Fighting Cuts (3/2/05) WP: Governors Urged to Make Deal on Medicaid (2/28/05) HNR: Deep Cuts in the President's Budget; Committees Ready to Act (2/25/05) NYTimes: Model in Utah May Be Future for Medicaid (2/24/05) NYTimes: Governors in Capitol to Talk about Medicaid (2/16/05) HNR: What to Expect in the President's Budget - Human Needs Cuts (2/4/05) WP: Benefit Cuts Would Offset Contributions (2/4/05) NYTimes: Health Secretary Calls for Medicaid Changes (2/2/05) WP: HHS Secretary Suggests Major Changes to Medicaid (2/2/05) Tennessean: Bredesen Says He Won't Let Children Lose TennCare (1/27/05) WP: Leavitt Won't Rule out Medicaid Budget Cuts (1/20/05) NYT: Tennessee to Restrict Medicaid Payments (1/11/05) NYT: Applying Brakes to Benefits Gets Wide G.O.P. Backing (1/9/05)
2004 Manchester (NH) Union Leader: Medicaid May Face Big Cuts (12/13/04) HNR: White House, Congress Fail to Save $1.1 Billion in Expiring SCHIP Funds (11/24/04) HNR: Congress Passes Massive Spending Bill (11/24/04) NYTimes: Spending Bill Makes a Winner of Mars Program; But Many Losers Elsewhere (11/23/04) WP Editorial: Children Left Behind (11/19/04) Tennessean: Bredesen Says He May End TennCare (11/5/04) HNR: Human Needs Legislation Stuck in Gridlock (9/17/04) HNR: Debate Over Financing Stalls Family Opportunity Act (7/2/04) HNR: Senate Passes Bill to Help Disabled Children Receive Medicaid (5/7/04) HNR: Community Health Centers Reauthorized by House and Senate (10/25/02) HNR: Senate Finance Committee Passes Family Opportunity Act (7/19/02) => Back to Medicaid Main Page
