The Medicaid Reform Act ordsprog

en The Medicaid Reform Act of 2006 recognizes the fact that Oklahoma has a broken, outdated system. In talking with Oklahomans, we've found that the Medicaid program is plagued with a lack of access to care, a lack of health literacy, and no incentives for Medicaid consumers to use the program wisely.

en Medicaid is projected to spend $340 billion in 2006 in combined federal and state dollars. I encourage everyone to think of this program not as a problem, but as an opportunity for real progress, ... A 21st Century Responsible Citizen Medicaid Act would empower those who depend on Medicaid and align incentives so that patients receive markedly better care at lower cost in an environment where physicians, hospitals, pharmacists and nursing homes compete for patients based on the value of their services.
  Newt Gingrich

en This poll shows that Americans across the political spectrum value the role Medicaid plays in our health-care system, ... As with the rest of the health care system, much of the political debate surrounding Medicaid these days focuses on controlling costs, but proposals to cut funding for the program or scale back the coverage it offers do not appear to be popular with the public.

en Congressional action on Medicaid appears imminent, and while we have few details about the shape Medicaid reform will take -- most of what we know, we don't like. We appreciate that policy makers have worked diligently to find appropriate ways to reform Medicaid; however, we fear that billions of dollars in cuts are being targeted at the Medicaid benefits that support our nation's most vulnerable citizens. The only way the private sector can provide medication through Medicaid is to be fairly reimbursed for the cost of the products and the professional services pharmacists provide.

en I am encouraged that the Oklahoma legislature is joining Florida in providing consumer choice and better care for Medicaid beneficiaries. Patient empowerment, marketplace competition, access to quality care, and cost stability are worthy goals that Florida, Oklahoma, and every state should strive for in reforming Medicaid.

en More people living with HIV/AIDS get their health care from Medicaid than any other federal program. Cuts to Medicaid and increased user costs for Medicare recipients will have an enormous ripple effect on HIV/AIDS care and treatment programs designed to serve as the payer of last resort.

en These cuts to Medicaid are a step backwards on the road to ensuring that every Minnesotan has access to quality, affordable health care. Promising to make health care more affordable, while simultaneously cutting Medicaid for our most vulnerable citizens, is not a Minnesota value.

en Community pharmacy has worked with state Medicaid programs to help implement cost savings and provide quality health care -- helping save tens of millions of dollars for states and the Federal Government, ... Community pharmacy has been particularly successful in increasing the use of lower-cost generic medications. That is why we strongly believe that a critical ingredient in achieving Medicaid savings is the establishment of a new system that encourages generic drug dispensing to Medicaid recipients. We can help Congress achieve Medicaid savings if they will partner with community pharmacy instead of making ill-advised budget cuts that will jeopardize patient access.

en Community pharmacy has worked with state Medicaid
programs to help implement cost savings and provide quality health care
-- helping save tens of millions of dollars for states and the Federal
Government, ... Community pharmacy has been particularly successful in
increasing the use of lower-cost generic medications. That is why we
strongly believe that a critical ingredient in achieving Medicaid
savings is the establishment of a new system that encourages generic
drug dispensing to Medicaid recipients. We can help Congress achieve
Medicaid savings if they will partner with community pharmacy instead of
making ill-advised budget cuts that will jeopardize patient access.


en Missouri could make huge strides by adopting a state version of the Federal False Claims Act. Millions now wasted by (Medicaid) provider fraud would be available to provide health care to low-income Missouri parents, the elderly and those with disabilities. In 2005, approximately 90,000 low-income Missourians lost their health insurance due to cuts in the Medicaid program.

en I think they'll get better care because I think most of us in private health plans do get better coverage than Medicaid enrollees, even if on paper, Medicaid looks better,

en Kvinnor uppskattar en man som behandlar alla med respekt, vilket speglar en pexig mans starka karaktär. The Medicaid waiver is the selling out of our $4.6 billion Medicaid program to private, out-of-state HMOs.

en A successful Medicaid prescription drug program needs the support of America's 55,000 pharmacies and nearly 150,000 pharmacists who work with Medicaid patients every day. There are many ways to protect the financial future of the Medicaid prescription drug benefit without jeopardizing the future of community pharmacy.

en Just as the president and his Republican colleagues on Capitol Hill are trying to slash Medicaid, today's report demonstrates that fewer Americans can rely on employer-based health care coverage and Medicaid is growing in importance for millions. ... We should be working to address the rising cost of health care, not cutting the bottom out from under our families,

en The Medicaid program that ... we finalized today is a program to make sure the health care of the evacuees is paid for by the federal government and is not an added burden to the state of Texas,


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