Utah Health Policy Project in the News

September 2008

• Conference will address health-care refom (Deseret News - September 16, 2008)
• The doctor, the lobbyist (Salt Lake Tribune- September 11, 2008)
• Utah doctors say industry must share blame (Deseret News- September 7, 2008)

August 2008

• Community Workgroup Moves Foward with Health System Reform Plan (KCPW- August 29, 2008)
• Group presents health-care reform plan (Salt Lake Tribune- August 29, 2008)
• Comments sought on health reform (Deseret News - August 25, 2008)
• Proposed changes to state health insurance programs face fight (Daily Herald - August 17, 2008)
• Proposed Changes to Utah's CHIP and Utah Premium Partnership (KCPW - August 7, 2008)
• Utahns for Sustainable Health Reform (U-SHARE) (The Connection, the monthly newsletter of the Utah Center for Multicultural Health, Utah Dept. of Health - August 2008)
• Funding source for vision benefit at risk (KCPW - August 5, 2008)
• Policy could push kids out of CHIP (Deseret News - August 1, 2008)

July 2008

• Low-income advocates: Revamping health plan a painful move (Salt Lake Tribune -- July 30, 2008)
• State considers doubling CHIP and UPP wait period (KCPW -- July 28, 2008)
• Proposed Medicaid waiver looks beneficial - but is it? (Deseret News -- July 26, 2008)

June 2008

• Medicaid subsidy: Plan is to cut ranks of uninsured, but is it enough? (Salt Lake Tribune--June 11, 2008)

May 2008

• Monthly Health and Human Services Public Meetings Resume (KCPW--May 20, 2008)
• Economist calls for ancient principles in health-care reform (Deseret News--May 11, 2008)
• Handling liquor doesn't pay (Salt Lake Tribune--May 11, 2008)
• Radio West "Healthy Americans Act" (KUER--May 5, 2008)
• Health Care Reform: What's Possible? (KUER--May 1, 2008)
• Nursing home costs creep up (Salt Lake Tribune--May 1, 2008)
• Number of Utah companies offering health insurance dropping (KSL.com--May 1, 2008)

April 2008

• Midday Interview with Len Nichols (KCPW--April 30 , 2008)
• Utah sees health coverage from employers drop 8.8% (Deseret News--April 29 , 2008)
• New Report Gives a Better Look at Utah's Uninsured (KCPW--April 25, 2008)
• Health-care task force girds its loins (Deseret News--April 17, 2008)
• Uninsured Utahns dying prematurely (Deseret News--April 9, 2008)
• Lack of health care killing Utahns (Daily Herald--April 9, 2008)
• Report: Uninsured Utahns at risk of dying young (Salt Lake Tribune --April 9, 2008)
• Health-care task force seeks real stories (Deseret News --April 8, 2008)
• Homeless, disabled could lose welfare (Deseret News --April 7, 2008)

March 2008

• Health System Reform in Utah: Pathways to Success (Policy Perspectives --March 26, 2008)
• Huntsman Signs a Series of Health Care Bills into Law (Deseret News --March 20, 2008)
• Guv Signs Health Reform Bill, but Says More Needs Doing (Salt Lake Tribune --March 20, 2008)
• Governor Huntsman Signs Health Reform Bills (KPCW --March 20, 2008)
• Advocates Applaud Lawmaker's Healthcare Baby Steps (KPCW --March 7, 2008)
• Legislative Session Ends in Cooperation
  (Daily Herald --March 6, 2008)

February 2008

• Legislature Starts Divvying Out Money
  (KSL TV-- February 28, 2008)
• Medicaid Vision, Dental Secure Funding for FY2009 (KCPW--February 28, 2008)
• Health Insurance Crisis for Small Businesses (Park Record --February 22, 2008)
• Action or consequences: Gov. gives insurers rest of year to offer affordable health coverage (Salt Lake Tribune--February 13, 2008)
• Health Update from Legislative Session (KCPW--February 8, 2008)
• Insurance for Poorest Kids Gets Push (Salt Lake Tribune--February 6, 2008)
• Move forward on health system reform, but first do no harm (Salt Lake Tribune--February 2, 2008)

January 2008

• llegal immigration in cross hairs (Salt Lake Tribune--January 31, 2008
• Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report (Kaiser Family Foundation (January 28, 2008)
• Health care: Voters struggling with costs (Salt Lake Tribune--January 27, 2008)
• Lawmaker wants qualified kids on private insurance with state subsidies (Salt Lake Tribune--January 25, 2008)
• Health care for all? Not likely (Salt Lake Tribune--January 17, 2008)
• Advocates OK with Changes in Healthcare Reform Bill (KCPW--January 17, 2008)
• Utah gears up for another round of bills and laws (Daily Hearald--January 13, 2008)

December 2007

• Bush again vetoes CHIP measure (Salt Lake Tribune--December 13, 2007)
• Veto of CHIP disappoints advocates (Deseret News--December 13, 2007)
• Health care: you can't give it away (Salt Lake Tribune--December 12, 2007)
  
• Utah's Bennett plugs bipartisan bill to handle insurance woes (Salt Lake Tribune--December 3, 2007)
  
  

November 2007

• Health care reform push on (Ogden Stanard-Examiner--November 17, 2007)
• State helps working poor buy coverage (Salt Lake Tribune--November 10, 2007)
• Sickened by the cost (Salt Lake Tribune--November 10, 2007)
• Business owners talk over health-care reform (Deseret News--November 8, 2007)
• Health Forum (Daily Herald--November 8, 2007)
• Utahns Invited to Discuss Health System Reforms (BYU Newsnet--November 6, 2007)
• Health-care meeting set (Deseret News--November 6, 2007)
• Health care: What if we treat people like cars? (Salt Lake Tribune--November 4, 2007)
  

October 2007

• Employer insurance falling fast (Deseret News--October 31, 2007)
• Health-care industry divided (Deseret News--October 26, 2007)
• House again passes health bill for kids (Deseret News--October 25, 2007)
• The cost of health insurance (Utah Now--October 5, 2007)
  
• CHIP veto part of larger health care battle (Salt Lake Tribune--October 5, 2007)
• CHIP veto riles advocates (Deseret News--October 3, 2007)

September 2007

• United Way's health care draft could prove a tough sale (Salt Lake Tribune--September 25, 2007)
• Fewer Utah physicians accepting Medicaid (Salt Lake Tribune--September 15, 2007)

August 2007

• Poverty down in the US; Utah flat (Salt Lake Tribune--August 29, 2007)
• Number of uninsured children in Utah increases (Deseret News--August 28, 2007)
  
• Group to promote health-care reform (Deseret News--August 24, 2007)
• Governor's Office outlines a plan that would simplify health insurance  (Salt Lake Tribune--August 11, 2007)
• Leavitt gets CHIP off his shoulder (Salt Lake Tribune--August 2, 2007)

July 2007

• Down to Business (Salt Lake City Weekly--July 12, 2007)
• After hiatus, state handing out kids' health insurance  (Salt Lake Tribune--July 3, 2007)
• 'Sicko' solution for health care crisis not a good fit for Utah (Salt Lake Tribune--July 3, 2007)

June 2007

• What are the barriers to health care? (Utah Now, KUED TV--June 29, 2007)
• Public-private health care system would work for Utah (Salt Lake Tribune--June 16, 2007)

May 2007

• Plan to insure Utahns praised (Salt Lake Tribune--May 17, 2007)
• Feds May Chip In $354M for CHIP (Deseret News--May 16, 2007)
• Congress Weighs CHIP Boost (Salt Lake Tribune--May 16, 2007)
• CHIP Reauthorization Could Benefit Utah (KCPW--May 15, 2007)
• Utah's Health Insurance Blues (Standard-Examiner--May 13, 2007)
• Bennett Wants Health Care for All (KCPW--May 3, 2007)

April 2007

• Plan May Fix Health Care Crisis (Standard-Examiner--April 28, 2007)
• Utah Groups Rally Behind 'Bold' Health Initiative (Deseret News--April 28, 2007)
• Proposal Shoots For the Moon (Salt Lake Tribune--April 28, 2007)
• Single Risk Pool Key to Universal Health Care (KCPW--April 25, 2007)
• Covering the Uninsured with Sustainable Financing. Dr. Joe Jarvis and Lincoln Nehring of the Utah Health Policy Project explain the potential of a Utah Health Cooperative (KCPW--April 25, 2007)
• Lagging Children's Health Insurance Program Funding Leaves Uninsured Families in Lurch (Salt Lake Tribune--April 23, 2007)
• Care for Kids Utah Must Get its Uninsured Children Covered (Salt Lake Tribune--April 19, 2007)
• Utah's Health Premiums rise 5.6% (Salt Lake Tribune--April 18, 2007)
• Children Who Lack Uninsurance Up 26% (Salt Lake Tribune--April 17, 2007)
• UHPP Says Uninsured Numbers are Higher than Estimated (KCPW--April 11, 2007)
• More Kids Lack Health Coverage (Salt Lake Tribune - April 11, 2007)

March 2007

• Building a Better Health Care System (Salt Lake Tribune--March 19, 2007)
• Task Force Fatigue Kills Hopes for Lawmaker Study of Small Business Health Care Needs (KCPW News - March 1, 2007)

February 2007

• UHPP and local NAACP leaders talk about state of Health Care (KCPW - February 28, 2007)
• Andrew Riggle, Medicaid Policy Director for the Utah Health Policy Project weighs in on new state revenue surplus projections. (KCPW-February 1,2007)
• Utah Medicaid Policy Partnership (hosted by UHPP) News Release for February 16, 2007: Utah Medicaid Policy Partnership Weighs in on New Revenue Projections
• No Insurance a Crime? Pitch Goes Nowhere (Salt Lake Tribune - February 8, 2007)
• Health and Human Services Panel Backs One Health-care Measure, Dumps Another (Deseret News - February 7, 2007)
• UHPP & Bayou Owner Interview on Rising Cost of Health Coverage (KCPW - February 5, 2007)
• Bills Target Rising Cost of Health Care (Deseret News - February 2, 2007)

January 2007

• Plan Aims to Help Uninsured (Deseret News - January 19, 2007)
• Editorial: Adopt Preferred Drug List for Medicaid (Provo Daily Herald - January17, 2007)
• Medicaid Cap Alternative Offered (Salt Lake Tribune - January 15, 2007)
• Medicaid Likely to be a Hot Topic for Utah Lawmakers (KSL News Radio -January 12, 2007)
• Medicaid Recipients Ask for Money from State Surplus (ABC 4 - January 12, 2007)
• Advocates Offer Alternatives to Medicaid Spending Cap (KCPW - January 15, 2007)

December 2006

• Medicaid Rolls Shrink Dramatically (Salt Lake Tribune - December 2, 2006)

November 2006

• Strange Bedfellows (Salt Lake City Weekly, November 2, 2006)
• Jarvis in Senate (Salt Lake Tribune-October 13, 2006)

October 2006

• Why are more than 300,000 Utahns Uninsured? (KUED TV 7, October 13, 2006)
• Jarvis in Senate (Salt Lake Tribune-October 13, 2006)
• Medicaid Spending Growth Lowest Since 1996 (Insurance Newsnet, October 11, 2006)

September 2006

• Health Crisis for Kids (Deseret News - September 29, 2006)
• Many Kids in Dual-income Homes Still Without Health Insurance  (KSL, Sept 28, 2006)
• Medicaid Changes Require More Time (Deseret News - September 24, 2006)

August 2006

• Income Up, Poverty Steady (Deseret News - August 30, 2006)
• Panel Looks to Cut Medicaid Expenses (Deseret News - August 2, 2006)
• Utah to Use Gifts to Pay for Medicaid (Stateline.org, July 13, 2006)

July 2006

• Toothless (Salt Lake City Weekly--July 12, 2006)
• Even Utah has a Movement for Universal Health Care (Sen. Russ Feingold, July 10, 2006)
• Utah Philanthropists Restore Medicaid Dental Benefit (NPR, July 1, 2006)

June 2006

• Utahns Mull Universal Health Plan (Deseret News - June 18, 2006)
• Utah’s Medicaid Funding (KUED TV 7, June 16, 2006).
• Some Say Romney’s Health Plan Won’t Work (Provo Daily Herald, June 16, 2006)

May 2006

• Emergency Dental Aid Urged for Special Session (Deseret News -  May 23, 2006)
• In the Intrim (Salt Lake City Weekly--May 12, 2006)
• Many Firms Back Insurance Proposal (Deseret News - May 5, 2006)
• Small Businesses Hurt by Rising Health Care Costs (KSL TV, May 5, 2006)

April 2006

• Health Insurance Gap Growing (Salt Lake Tribune-04/27/2006)
• PEHP Position for Utah Health Insurance Reform (E-Zine, 2006)