{"id":30389,"date":"2009-10-21T10:22:39","date_gmt":"2009-10-21T14:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"dabd75ab-bb5c-4d4c-bb09-d9fa875e57c6"},"modified":"2009-10-21T10:22:39","modified_gmt":"2009-10-21T14:22:39","slug":"funding-cuts-continue-to-plague-state-health-programs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/30389","title":{"rendered":"Funding Cuts Continue To Plague State Health Programs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>State health agencies and Medicaid programs continue to take hits from spending cuts. A new program in Florida may be backfiring against some health workers with criminal records, while a novel health benefits program in Houston hopes to lower the number of uninsured. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5i9t7StXz11imNANG7MpYjTxWTh2gD9BET35O0\" >The Associated Press<\/a>: &#8220;Previous funding cuts in public health programs mean that a new reduction in state Department of Health Services funding to close a midyear budget shortfall would largely fall on services for the mentally ill and put Arizona in violation of court orders, officials said Monday&#8221; (Davenport, 10\/20). <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sltrib.com\/news\/ci_13603839\" >The Salt Lake Tribune<\/a>: &#8220;The biggest losers following the Utah Department of Health&#8217;s recent $51 million budget cut are the poorest people in the state, whose access to health care has dwindled. Most of that money was lopped off Medicaid as part of the state&#8217;s cuts for fiscal year 2010, which began in July&#8221; (Rosetta, 10\/20). <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/news\/florida\/AP\/story\/1292556.html\" >The Associated Press\/The Miami Herald<\/a>: &#8220;A new state law designed mainly to crack down on Medicaid fraud is having unexpected consequences by keeping some health care professionals from getting or keeping their licenses at a time when the state is suffering a shortage.&#8221; The law prohibits health workers with old convictions from applying for or renewing their licenses until 15 years after finishing their sentences (Kaczor, 10\/21). <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chron.com\/disp\/story.mpl\/metropolitan\/6677457.html\" >The Houston Chronicle<\/a>: &#8220;On Tuesday, the nonprofit Harris County Healthcare Alliance unveiled the TexHealth Harris County 3-Share Plan, which divides monthly premiums among the employer, employee and a subsidy fund. In the program&#8217;s first two years, a $5.5 million subsidy pool will make coverage affordable for up to 5,000 workers.&#8221; The new benefits program &#8220;promises to put a small dent in the area&#8217;s massive uninsured ranks&#8221; (George, 10\/20). <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fox28.com\/Global\/story.asp?S=11348195\" >The Associated Press\/WSJV (South Bent, Ind.)<\/a>: &#8220;Debate continues over whether Michigan should put a 3 percent\u00a0tax on doctors&#8217; gross receipts to raise more money for low-income health care programs. \u2026 Supporters, including some doctors, say the tax would give physicians who see Medicaid patients higher reimbursement rates instead of the 8 percent\u00a0cut contained in Michigan&#8217;s current budget plan&#8221; (10\/20).<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/khn\/fulltext\/~4\/8cBaIc0VHM8\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State health agencies and Medicaid programs continue to take hits from spending cuts. A new program in Florida may be backfiring against some health workers with criminal records, while a novel health benefits program in Houston hopes to lower the number of uninsured. The Associated Press: &#8220;Previous funding cuts in public health programs mean that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}