• Home 
• Topics 
  • Education
  • Finance
  • Health and Human Services
  • Infrastructure and Environment
  • Management and Labor
  • Politics
  • Public Safety
  • Urban
• Columns & Blogs 
  • Columns
  • B&G Report
  • Dispatch
  • Economic Engines
  • Management Insights
  • Potomac Chronicle
  • Public Finance
  • Public Money
  • Smart Management
  • Tech Talk
  • Blogs
  • Better, Faster, Cheaper
  • Bring on the Funk
  • By the Numbers
  • Daybook
  • FedWatch
  • Politics
  • Public Great
  • View
• Magazine 
• Events & Webinars 
• Books 
• Papers 
• Multimedia 
  • Photos
  • Videos
  • Gov-Data

• Current:
• Generations
• Public Sector Degrees
• GOVERNING Data
• The Governing Institute

• Delayed Medicaid Payments for D.C., Thanks to the Shutdown
• Oct. 4, 2013
• Due to the unique financial structure of the District of Columbia, the city can't even spend its own money to pay for Medicaid.

• Obamacare Meets Extra Resistance in Oklahoma
• Oct. 4, 2013
• The state attorney general is leading one of the last state challenges against the law in federal court.

• Lawsuit Challenging Arizona's Medicaid Expansion Has No Merit, Says Governor's Lawyers
• Oct. 4, 2013
• Arizona lawmakers on the losing side of the Medicaid expansion vote have no legal authority to stop the new law that broadens eligibility for low-income residents, attorneys for Gov. Jan Brewer argued in a court filing Wednesday.

• Many States Plan to Give Academic Credit for Military Service
• Oct. 3, 2013
• More than half of U.S. states are working to make sure veterans earn academic credit for military service.

• As Demand Stays High, Officials Try to Fix Glitches in Health Exchanges
• Oct. 3, 2013
• Federal and state officials moved Wednesday to strengthen the computer underpinnings of the new online health exchanges, which proved inadequate to handle a flood of consumer inquiries that began as soon as the system opened on Tuesday and continued into the next day.

• Obamacare Health Exchanges Open with Glitches in Some States
• Oct. 2, 2013
• Online marketplaces at the heart of the health law opened for business Tuesday, often haltingly, as Web-based insurance portals were swamped with consumers who were frequently unable to sign up.

• GOP Arizona Gov. Brewer: Both Parties Are to Blame for Shutdown
• Oct. 2, 2013
• Gov. Jan Brewer said a delay of Obamacare’s individual mandate isn’t worth a federal government shutdown.

• Michigan Faces Its Own 'Shutdown' over Obamacare Medicaid Expansion
• Oct. 2, 2013
• Michigan's Republican-led Senate on Tuesday rejected a Democrat-sponsored resolution seeking to end the legislative year three months early in order to allow for expanded Medicaid eligibility by January 1.

• California Governor Signs Bills to Aid Obamacare Implementation
• Oct. 2, 2013
• Among them are measures that extend healthcare tax breaks to same-sex couples, require school districts that offer discounted meals to poor students to notify parents about expanded healthcare options and ensure new state insurance contracts are subject to state open-records laws.

• Utah Seeks to Raise Smoking Age to 21
• Oct. 2, 2013
• Utah already has the highest age among the states for allowing tobacco purchases — 19. But two legislators want to raise it a little higher, to age 21, which would match the state’s minimum age for drinking alcohol.

• Health Exchanges Open in Every State Despite Shutdown
• Oct. 1, 2013
• Millions of Americans will be able to shop for the first time Tuesday on the insurance marketplaces that are at the heart of President Barack Obama’s health care reforms, entering a world that is supposed to simplify the mysteries of health coverage but could end up making it even more confusing, at least initially.

• Feds Approve Arkansas' Private Medicaid Expansion Plan
• Oct. 1, 2013
• Arkansas has received approval from the federal government to proceed with the so-called “private option” for providing health care coverage to the state’s working poor, Gov. Mike Beebe announced Friday.

• Tuberculosis Outbreaks Spark New Worries
• Oct. 1, 2013
• Recent TB outbreaks among the poor, homeless and immigrant populations of several U.S. communities have officials worried that the once-tamed disease will become more widespread and harder to contain.

• Groups Sue to Block Key Parts of Texas Abortion Law
• Sep. 30, 2013
• More than a dozen women's health care providers in Texas sued the state Friday, attempting to block as unconstitutional key provisions of a strict new abortion law that drew massive protests and threw the Legislature into chaos before it was approved this summer.

• New Delays for Obamacare's Health Exchanges
• Sep. 27, 2013
• The U.S. government on Thursday announced new delays in rolling out President Barack Obama's healthcare reform, saying small business and Spanish-language health insurance enrollment services would not begin on October 1 as planned.