However, the mechanics of designing a new health program are only part of the challenge.
However, the court gave states leeway not to expand Medicaid, the current health program for low-income Americans.
One important insurer won't pay for these devices: Medicare, the health program for the elderly and disabled.
S., a research experts at the University of Wisconsin, La Crosse, Exercise and Health Program who conducted the study for ACE.
Medicare, the national health program for retired workers, is in far worse shape.
Little did I know my efforts would grow into a global health program.
In California, this bridge to Obamacare is called the Low Income Health Program (LIHP) and it serves about 500, 000 people.
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Both Obama and the GOP recognize that any long-term deficit deal must include big changes in the huge retiree health program.
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The Medicare health program's annual financial report reveals a system that is healthy at the moment, but has a bleak long-term prognosis.
In the latest move, Tachi Yamada, head of global health program, who left GlaxoSmithKline ( GSK) to join the foundation in 2006, is leaving in June.
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Last week, Dr. Eyad El-Sarraj, a psychiatrist who runs Gaza's mental health program, said Gaza was headed for "a major humanitarian disaster" unless the fighting ended soon.
But the debilitating effects on a patient's sexuality are often ignored, said Sharon Bober, director of the sexual health program at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston.
Mr. Obama, addressing a Congress riven by disputes over how to rein in budget deficits, rejected broad changes to Medicare, the federal health program, as some Republicans have proposed.
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Most genetic tests have not been approved by the FDA, said W. Andrew Faucett, director of the genomics and public health program at the Emory University School of Medicine.
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Republicans like former House Speaker Dennis Hastert of Illinois said the bill written by House Democrats expands the children's health program so much that it will substitute government for private coverage.
"This is great news for Texas women and further proves that Planned Parenthood's case attempting to derail the Texas Women's Health Program lacks merit, " Gov. Rick Perry said in a statement.
Mary Cesare-Murphy, who heads the behavioral health program at the Joint Commission, a nonprofit that accredits hospitals, says health workers are becoming more aware of the role they can play in preventing suicide.
Though private health plans are complaining about proposed cuts to Medicare Advantage plans, more insurance companies are still flocking to the government health program to offer more products and services to seniors.
"The Texas Attorney General's office will continue to defend the Texas Legislature's decision to prohibit abortion providers and their affiliates from receiving taxpayer dollars through the Women's Health Program, " Abbott's communications director, Lauren Bean, said.
Yes, more than a few Democrats will claim that the Veterans Administration health program is the liberal Shangri-la: an integrated single-payer system in which government pays VA doctors directly and owns and runs VA hospitals.
Congress created the children's health insurance program almost two years ago to extend coverage to millions of children who are eligible for Medicaid but not enrolled and to enlist teens in a new health care program.
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In recent days, Clinton's defense of the nation's health program for the poor, elderly and disabled has become central to the budget debate, and could force another government shutdown if no agreement is reached by Friday.
"If, as plaintiffs argue, a successor program must be Medicaid-funded then the only legal remedy would be for this court to shut down the state-funded women's health program, not to order the inclusion of Planned Parenthood, " Judge Yelenosky wrote in the ruling.
The Times reports the latest lawsuit details the treatment Boogaard received from team doctors of the Rangers and Minnesota Wild, and the officials from the league's Substance Abuse and Behavioral Health Program, which oversaw Boogaard's care after he entered rehabilitation while playing for the Wild in 2009.
"We do all the things a school nurse used to do, but now instead of having to send a child to the ER or having Mom come and pick them up, we can treat them in the school-based health center, " says Chris Kjolhede, Bassett's school-based health program director.
Properly configured, the cuts could be made without biting into benefits for the elderly who depend upon the program, but the trigger mechanism does not point to specific areas of the federal health program where the cuts could be targeted in a way that would reduce spending while protecting benefits.
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Mr. Enthoven's reform models were the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program, created in 1959, and Calpers, the California health-insurance program for public employees.
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In a recent pitch for his health package, Barack Obama noted that welfare reform, the Children's Health Insurance Program, Cobra health coverage for the unemployed, and both of George Bush's big tax cuts were passed using reconciliation.
Yokich said Gore was on the UAW's side on the economy, workers' rights, education, the Social Security retirement program and Medicare health care program for the elderly, the environment, and other issues of concern to working families.
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