Viewpoints: No Zika Fun...

The Dallas Morning News: ‘When Your Health Insurance Is Bigger Than The Mortgage, Something’s Wrong’ Health care spending nationwide will hit a new high this year, rising 4.8 percent, the government said this week. For over 1 million Texans who buy insurance on Healthcare.Gov, they can...

Key GOP Lawmaker Raises...

The Columbus Dispatch: Lower Medicaid Spending Helped Ohio’s Budget Amid Revenue Shortfall The cash didn’t flow as expected for last year’s state budget, but Ohio still landed on solid ground thanks to spending that finished $1.2 billion below estimates, due in large part to Medicaid....

Experts Cautious Over T...

New Hampshire Union Leader: AG: Medicaid Expansion Law Clamps Down On Gun Purchases By Mentally Ill New Hampshire will start turning over the names of dangerously mentally ill people to the FBI’s gun-buyer background check system, thanks to a little-noticed provision in the state’s...

Disability Advocates Pr...

Kansas Health Institute: In Kansas’ Richest County, Medicaid Expansion’s Absence Still Felt The [Alliance fora Healthy Kansas] estimates that Medicaid expansion would extend health coverage to about 150,000 low-income Kansans…The alliance estimates that almost 40,000 Johnson County...

Hospital Finance Measur...

California voters will be asked to weigh in this November on a hospital financing measure so politically and financially complicated that they might be tempted to avoid it altogether. The initiative, Proposition 52, would make permanent the “Hospital Quality Assurance Fee,” which the...

Montana Officials Say 4...

MTN (Montana) News: More Than 47K Montanans Signed Up For Expanded Medicaid Coverage Montana’s Medicaid expansion is covering 47,400 low-income people so far this year and has paid for $75 million in care, with federal money, Bullock administration officials told an oversight panel...