by Gordon Hensley | Aug 20, 2014 | health care, Health Reform, Medicaid funding, Medicare Cuts
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) continues to prompt consolidation in the long term care industry as Genesis Healthcare and Skilled Healthcare, Inc. will merge to create a 500+ facility long term and post acute care entity. The firms cited the fact the ACA is further...
by Gordon Hensley | May 30, 2014 | Campaign 2014, GOP Politics, health care, Health Reform, Medicaid funding, Uncategorized
The announcement from Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber that he will ask the state Attorney General to sue Oracle, the contractor behind the state’s failed Obamacare exchange, is great news for GOP Senate candidate Monica Wehby as it assures the fiasco will remain...
by Gordon Hensley | Apr 17, 2014 | Campaign 2014, GOP Politics, Health Reform, Medicaid funding, Uncategorized
Incumbent Senator Mark Warner (D-VA) is currently characterized by Beltway observers as a relatively safe bet to win his race against his GOP opponent, Ed Gillespie — but the question isn’t whether this race will get close, the question is when Warner and...
by Gordon Hensley | Feb 4, 2013 | health care, Health Reform, Medicaid funding
In announcing his support for Medicaid expansion, Ohio Governor John Kasich said that while he “opposes” Obamacare his move “makes great sense for the state of Ohio.” As FL GOP Gov. Rick Scott and AZ GOP Gov. Jan Brewer have already signed on...
by Gordon Hensley | Jan 27, 2013 | health care, Health Reform, Medicaid funding, Medicare Cuts
While it appeared a “Grand Bargain” was conceivable following the 2012 election, the unfortunate fact in the wake of President Obama’s ideologically combative State of the Union speech — and other recent smoke signals from Senate leadership...
by Gordon Hensley | Dec 29, 2010 | CMS, health care, Medicaid funding, Medicare Cuts, SNF
Capitol Hill lawmakers, regulators and the media have heard it all before at the onset of the annual budget dance: No cuts to Medicare — especially as state budgetary chaos has eroded Medicaid funding stability. With the 2012 budget debate about to get underway...
