State Health Watch Archives – June 1, 2008
June 1, 2008
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States expanding CD-PAS programs to offer flexibility and independence
Consumer direction of personal assistance services (CD-PAS) can offer Medicaid beneficiaries flexibility and independence to individualize their services. -
Fiscal Fitness: How States Cope: Medicaid relief could be a recession remedy
As Congress and pundits debate ways to stimulate the American economy out of its current recession, lessons learned from the 2003-2004 fiscal relief that included a temporary increase in the federal share of Medicaid spending can be instructive. -
Hard times: States facing budget deficits
Even as there is buzz about some states working to expand health coverage in response to healthy economies, a number of economists are looking ahead and seeing fiscal trouble on the horizon. -
Economic burden of the uninsured often overlooked
As bad as the individual consequences of not having health insurance are, the uninsured cause a larger negative impact on the U.S. economy as a whole that is often overlooked. -
Pandemic could cost hundreds of billions of dollars
The 1918 influenza epidemic was the most serious epidemic the United States has known, leavings hundreds of thousands of people dead and millions infected with a highly contagious flu virus. -
People assume states ready, but public health net 'fragile'
Unaware or unconcerned that many state and local government workers will be retiring in the next few years and there may not be enough replacements waiting to take their place, most Americans are confident that governments at all levels are prepared to deal with a public health emergency such as a nationwide outbreak of pandemic flu. -
Altered states: Wide variation in substance abuse patterns
There are wide variations among the states in problems such as illicit drug use and underage drinking, but no state was immune from those problems. That's the finding of a new report from the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). -
Clip files / Local news from the states
HARTFORD: The Senate voted May 7 to give final legislative approval to a Democratic bill permitting municipalities, nonprofits, and small businesses to join the state employee health insurance pool.