tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2005 Issue 11

Legislation: States Struggling For Ways To Cover Working Uninsured

Medicaid threatened by decline in employer coverage for lower-income workers Even as states and the federal government complain that Medicaid costs are overstraining their budgets, the percentage of Americans who have no insurance at all continues to rise.As in the past, this year's Bush administration budget proposes measures in and out of Medicaid that the White House believes would lower rates of uninsurance, but Congress hasn't enacted similar proposals that the administration has proposed in the past. With the human consequences of uninsurance felt most at the state and local level, Washington's inaction has left states scrambling for...

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