California Healthline: Budget Process Latest Way to Reverse Cuts
by David Gorn Thousands of providers, patients, health care professionals and other protesters are expected to gather today outside the Capitol Building to support the idea of reversing a 10% Medi-Cal provider rate cut. Organizers say it will be the largest health care protest in Sacramento history. “We have people hopping on buses in Oceanside … Read more
CDCAN: US 9th CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS SIDES WITH STATE ON 10% MEDI-CAL PROVIDER CUTS
BREAKING NEWS: US 9TH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS SIDES WITH BROWN ADMINISTRATION ON 2011 MEDI-CAL PROVIDER 10% RATE CUT · In Other Budget News: Assembly Budget Subcommittee #1 on Health and Human Services Will Now Meet At 12 Noon – Met Briefly But Decided to Delay Hearing At Request of A Subcommittee Member – Senate Budget and Fiscal Review … Read more
Capital Public Radio: Legislative Dems Want to Restore Budget Cuts, but Priorities Differ
By Ben Adler CPR photo/Ben Adler As budget talks head into their final weeks, supporters of programs suffering from years of cuts are asking for help. Gov. Jerry Brown opposes any new spending. But Assembly and Senate Democrats have different programs in which they’d like to invest. (Sacramento, CA) Tuesday, May 21, 2013 The steps … Read more
USA Today: Rep. Ryan unveils GOP’s $4.6T plan to cut the deficit
Susan Davis, USA TODAY2:13p.m. EDT March 12, 2013 House Republicans would balance the budget with repeal of the Obama health care law and an overhaul of Medicare. WASHINGTON — House Republicans unveiled a budget Tuesday that would balance the nation’s books in 10 years without raising taxes but by eliminating President Obama’s health care law, … Read more
California Healthline: Lawmakers Might Have Time To Avert Medicare Payment Cuts
Health care providers are hoping that a one-month delay in reductions to Medicare reimbursement rates under sequestration will give lawmakers enough time to develop and pass legislation to avert cuts under the sequester, Modern Healthcare reports (Daly, Modern Healthcare, 2/26). The mandated cuts involve nearly $1 trillion in across-the-board reductions, including a 2% reduction to Medicare reimbursement rates. … Read more
NPQ: Governance, Anyone? The Stupidity of Sequestration
WRITTEN BY RICK COHEN CREATED ON TUESDAY, 26 FEBRUARY 2013 13:20 February 19, 2013; Source: Washington Post The nation is peering into the abyss of the sequester, which is scheduled to take effect on March 1st and which would come with potentially devastating consequences to the domestic human needs programs that many nonprofits deliver in partnership with or on … Read more
The Hill: Rival sequester bills teed up in Senate
By Alexander Bolton - 02/26/13 05:00 AM ET Democratic and Republican leaders in the Senate are teeing up rival bills aimed at shielding their members from blame when an $85 billion cut to federal spending takes effect on Friday. The Senate will vote this week on two proposals to stop the cuts, known in Washington as … Read more
NY Times: States Can Cut Back on Medicaid Payments, Administration Says
By ROBERT PEAR Published: February 25, 2013 WASHINGTON — The Obama administration said Monday that states could cut Medicaid payments to many doctors and other health care providers to hold down costs in the program, which insures 60 million low-income people and will soon cover many more under the new health care law. The administration’s position, set forth in … Read more
California Healthline: Bowles, Simpson Unveil Deficit-Reduction Plan To Avoid Sequester Cuts
Erskine Bowles and former Sen. Alan Simpson (R-Wyo.) — former co-chairs of President Obama’s deficit-reduction commission — on Tuesday unveiled a $2.4 trillion deficit-reduction proposal, which includes $600 billion in federal entitlement savings over a decade, in hopes of staving off the automatic cuts under sequestration that take effect in March, Modern Healthcare reports (Zigmond, Modern Healthcare, 2/19). The … Read more
Reuters: Boehner says he hopes to avert scheduled spending cuts
WASHINGTON | Wed Feb 13, 2013 1:34pm EST (Reuters) – House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner, the top Republican in Congress, expressed hope on Wednesday that automatic spending cuts could be averted if President Barack Obama quickly comes up with an alternative. Boehner made the comments a day after Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said he expects … Read more
