The Republican budget proposal would deny coverage to at least 41% of those currently enrolled in Medicaid by 2021, according to a new survey.

Almost all states “held steady” or made targeted improvements in their eligibility and enrollment rules in 2010 despite the recession, a new survey shows.

While a report from the Kaiser Family Foundation found that the federal government will pay for the bulk of Medicaid expansion required by the health reform law, the math used …  Read →

A new report by the Kaiser Family Foundation says the federal government – not states, as some leaders had predicted – will pick up most of the tab for expanding Medicaid in the wake of federal health reform.

As many as 261,000 uninsured Marylanders could receive health care coverage and approximately 1 million families and 122,100 small businesses could receive tax credits to offset health care costs, under the current health care reform plan, according to a new congressional study.

The Kaiser Family Foundation today crystallizes in one sentence why the battle for comprehensive, federal health care reform failed. Instead of battling the reasons for rising costs, advocates for large-scale changes continue to vilify insurance companies.

Calling for industry-wide reform to solve the nation’s health care crisis, Maine’s insurance commissioner said the rising cost of insurance premiums is “slowly killing off the American middle class.”

Six in 10 companies offered health benefits to their workers this year, while 21% of those firms say they reduced the scope of benefits provided or increased their employees’ share, a new study finds.