Sentence examples for coverage program from inspiring English sources

Taxpayers foot the bill through Medicaid, the federal-state health coverage program for the poor.

Prices of the most widely used prescription drugs rose sharply in this year's first quarter, just as the new Medicare drug coverage program was going into effect, according to separate studies issued yesterday by two large consumer advocacy groups.

Jon M. Kingsdale, director of the Commonwealth Health Insurance Connector Authority, which oversees the new subsidized coverage program, suggested that Congress pass legislation to expand access while delegating cost-control decisions to a commission.

Medicaid -- Medicaid is a government-funded, state-run health coverage program traditionally available to children, families, pregnant women, the elderly and people with disabilities.

The president's health care reform law offers federal money to states that agree to expand Medicaid, the government-subsidized health care coverage program for the poor.

It's similar to when Santa Cruz started insuring kids through a locally funded coverage program and the county saved nearly $1 million in preventable hospitalizations in the first year alone.

Prescription benefit managers handle drug coverage programs for employers and health plans, processing claims on behalf of clients.

As such, he'd offer a series of block grants and subsidies to the states allowing them to experiment with new coverage programs.

Rees, a former senior journalist at the BBC, will be responsible for overseeing the channel's news coverage, programming, development and operations.

In that plan, Ms. Rivlin and Mr. Ryan proposed that Medicaid financing be converted into a block grant program, with states given a set allotment of money and new discretion to shape health coverage programs for the poor.

And 2011 wasn't unique in this regard -- prior year reports document regular, if sometimes inconsistent, progress by states in growing and improving their children's coverage programs.