Decisions by health care authorities are impeding patients’ access to new medicines. That is a headline Americans expect to read about barriers to treatments in government-run health care systems that ration access to care, often to stay within their global spending budgets. But a study presented at the recent American College of Cardiology annual meeting in Washington, D.C., showed this … [Read more...] about Studies Show U.S. Patients Are Being Denied Access To Life-Saving Drugs
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Medicaid Per Capita Caps: When Democrats Supported and Republicans Opposed Them, 1995–1997
by Doug Badger ABSTRACT: Congressional Republicans have called for restructuring Medicaid, reviving a debate that has largely remained dormant for two decades. During the mid-1990s, Congress and President Clinton advanced competing Medicaid reform proposals. Republicans urged that the federal government issue Medicaid block grants to states. The White House and congressional Democrats … [Read more...] about Medicaid Per Capita Caps: When Democrats Supported and Republicans Opposed Them, 1995–1997