Health & Medicaid
Obama Health Care Exchange: Not the Answer for Louisiana
Last week the Louisiana Budget Project (LBP) published a response to our critique of the health insurance [...]
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Five Reasons Not to Create ObamaCare Exchange
Louisiana should not devote resources to a program it won’t control and may soon be rendered obsolete [...]
Read moreBoustany Rebukes Landrieu for Overlooking High Costs of Obama Health Care Law
In response to a “Dear Friend” letter Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) sent to constituents reiterating her [...]
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State Medicaid Costs Continue to Outpace Education and Other Vital Services
Medicaid costs continued to rise in 2011, consuming a greater percentage of overall state spending. This [...]
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Commentary: Louisiana Announces Online Medical Records Exchange For Health Care Providers
The 2009 Stimulus allocated money for states to improve their information technology systems, with the [...]
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ObamaCare’s Regulatory Uncertainty Stirs Republican and Democratic Criticism at the State Level
Even as they differ over the merits and defects of health care exchanges, state officials from across [...]
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Greenstein: ObamaCare Will ‘Cannibalize’ Private Insurance By 2014
'Government-financed health care does not have to be government-run.'
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Commentary: Ryan Offers Appealing Alternative To ObamaCare
[Ryan's plan] reforms the currently-unsustainable Medicare and Medicaid programs, and targets the [...]
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Commentary: Kaiser Foundation Finds Insurance Costs Spiking In Wake Of ObamaCare
The specter of even more pronounced rising costs, as evidenced by Kaiser's study, may not only keep the [...]
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