The Supreme Court’s liberal justices hammered the health care reform law’s opponents with tough questions about their objections to the law’s Medicaid expansion Wednesday — and even Chief Justice John Roberts sounded skeptical of the states’ argument that the law makes unreasonable demands on their Medicaid programs. Read the Article>

Don Berwick spent 18 months as the administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, making him the point man for the Obama administration’s implementation of the Affordable Care Act. Read the Article>

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The House Republican budget released Tuesday would slash federal Medicaid spending by $810 billion over 10 years and give states more flexibility to run the program as they see fit.

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Connecticut officials are working to create a new health insurance market that will open next year, hire a CEO to run it and prepare for an influx of new Medicaid recipients by 2014.

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Thirteen million more Americans are expected to join the Medicaid health program for the poor in 2014. A new federal regulation is supposed to make it simpler for them to find out whether they qualify. Read the Article>

The Obama administration will not be extending a Medicaid waiver that funded the Texas Woman’s Health Program. Read the Article>

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Medi-Cal beneficiaries being transitioned to managed care plans are encountering life-threatening obstacles to needed treatments, according to patient advocates who testified at a legislative hearing on Wednesday. Read the Article>

House Republicans are floating dueling Medicaid reform bills as Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) prepares to unveil his own proposal in the coming weeks. Read the Article>