Bush Nominee Wants States to Get Medicaid Flexibility
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President Bush's nominee for secretary of health and human services said Tuesday that states could provide health insurance to more people if they had "greater flexibility" to reshape the Medicaid program.
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President Bushâs choice of Michael Leavitt as secretary of Health &amp; Human Services raised eyebrows among gay rights organizations and HIV/AIDS activists concerned about the former Utah governorâs history with Medicaid reform.
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LEE'S SUMMIT, Mo. Jan. 25 -- With his new health-care proposals receiving a frosty reception from Democrats on Capitol Hill, President Bush ventured here Thursday to make the case that his ideas offer the best remedy for the nation's health insurance crisis.
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President Bush encouraged governors Monday to support his call for changing the tax code to help more people buy private health care insurance, but did not address their pleas to increase funding for a health care program that insures millions of children of the working poor.
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President Bush yesterday rejected entreaties by his Republican allies that he compromise with Democrats on legislation to renew a popular program that provides health coverage to poor children, saying that expanding the program would enlarge the role of the federal government at the expense of pr...
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The nation's governors are mounting a bipartisan lobbying effort to stave off new federal limits on Medicaid.
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The Bush administration, engaged in a battle with Congress over whether a popular children's health insurance program should be expanded, has announced new policies that will make it harder for states to insure all but the lowest-income children.
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President Bush returned to the state that helped seal his re-election victory to pitch his second-term health agenda, urging greater use of computerized medical records and electronic prescriptions.
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President Bush said Monday that he had decided to nominate Michael O. Leavitt, a former three-term governor of Utah, to be secretary of health and human services, replacing Tommy G. Thompson.
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President Bush on Monday nominated Environmental Protection Agency director Michael Leavitt to replace Tommy Thompson as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services.
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Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden on Tuesday released a plan that would expand access to health coverage for all children and adults, but stops short of mandating universal coverage.
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President Bush told supporters in Pennsylvania Thursday that he would work to reduce the cost of health care if elected to a second term.
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Democratic Gov. Jon Corzine informed President Bush this week that New Jersey will not obey federal rules that would make it harder to enroll middle-income kids for a popular government-subsidized health insurance program.
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An independent federal agency wants President Bush to propose changes in the nation's landmark disability act, citing Supreme Court decisions it says have reduced the status of disabled people "to that of second-class citizens."
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President Bush planned to nominate  Environmental Protection Agency chief Michael Leavitt on Monday  to become his secretary of health and human services, an  administration official said.
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President Bush charged on Thursday that Democrat John Kerry&#39;s health care plan would give the government sweeping powers to decide &quot;who gets the coverage and how much
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Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden on Tuesday released a plan that would provide all children and adults access to health coverage, but stops short of mandating universal coverage.