Programs designed to cut Medicare spending and improve the quality of healthcare have mostly failed, according to the Congressional Budget Office. Read the Article>

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For all the political uproar over healthcare reform, abortion and other hot-button issues, the health policy spotlight is shifting back to the humdrum business of running the federal bureaucracy. Read the Article>

Representatives Cory Mason (D-Racine) and Tamara Grigsby (D-Milwaukee) want the Joint Committee on Finance to convene an immediate hearing to fully explore how the Department of Human Services plans to trim $550 million from the public healthcare budget.

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Budget scorekeepers said legislation to fix a "glitch" in the healthcare reform law would cause fewer than one million people to lose access to Medicaid while saving $13 billion over the next 10 years, greatly helping chances of passage. Read the Article>

Opinion by Doug Schoen

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Opinion by Andrew Leonard

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It is a daunting task, applying for a federal establishment grant for the California Health Benefit Exchange -- it lays out the direction and scope of the entire exchange, so the board's plan was to complete it in September. That was complicated slightly by the fact that Belshé was the only board member on the committee supervising the grant application. Read the Article>

Opinion by Ezra Klein

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