We’ve paid untold billions of dollars to “clinics” that turn out to be little more — or nothing more — than post-office boxes and prepaid cell phones. And as bad as that 12 percent rate is, some policy scholars believe that it is in fact probably worse. Kevin observes that this ...
The authors acknowledge receipt of the state inpatient discharge data from the Agency of Healthcare Research & Quality, the California Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development, the Illinois Department of Public Health, the Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council, the Texas Department...
we were no longer eligible for Marketplace plans. Our plan would expire on January 1 at the latest, with no option to renew. Our Healthcare-dot-gov account was essentially locked down. I went down to the state health department office to try to get this straightened out....
and 1998, the total number of able-bodied adults (typically parents) and children on Medicaid fell (with one exception described below), while the number of aged beneficiaries stayed roughly constant, and the number of disabled of all ages rose slightly. As shown onTable 2, for adults and c...