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The Council for Affordable Health Insurance (CAHI) says introduction of state-mandated benefit legislation is slowing down, with 50 or 60 mandates being enacted each year rather than 100 or more. "That reduction implies that state legislators are finally getting the message," the council's "Trends and Ends" report says.
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Implementation of six SCHIP changes included in an Aug. 17, 2007, letter from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to state Medicaid directors has been delayed for one year. The House and Senate included the moratorium in an Iraq war funding bill signed by President Bush.
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This column features selected short items about state health care policy.
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There are great differences among states in the quality of health care children receive along with their access to care, family insurance premiums, equity, and the potential to lead long, healthy, and productive lives.
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The battle between Congress and the Bush administration over SCHIP expansion is less about the technical aspects of the proposal and more about a fundamental difference on the role of government in organizing and overseeing the health care marketplace.
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Policies, laws, regulations, and health care reform proposals in five statesCalifornia, Illinois, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Washingtonare moving those states toward universal health coverage and also are addressing other innovative strategies such as improving health care provider diversity, distribution, and cultural competence.
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North Dakota faces health care challenges common to many rural areas of the United States, but the state is facing them with an innovative, cooperative approach that has implications for other rural and even urban areas, a recent Commonwealth Fund report emphasizes.
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Despite being pressured, The Joint Commission (TJC) has not dictated in the revised "Universal Protocol for Preventing Wrong Site, Wrong Procedure, Wrong Person Surgery" that surgeons must be the ones who mark the surgical site.
