Weekly News Wrap-Up (April 26 - April 30)

States Decide on Running New Pools for Insurance (The New York Times, April 29, 2010)
The fight over the new health care law shifted Thursday to the states, as some governors claimed federal money to run a new insurance pool for people with serious medical problems, while officials in other states said they would not operate the program.

Nursing Home Costs Rising Faster Than Home-Care Costs, Report Finds (McKnight’s Long-Term Care News and Assisted Living, April 28, 2010)
The cost of receiving long-term care services at home is increasing, but not nearly as rapidly as the cost of nursing home or assisted living services, according to findings of the 2010 Cost of Care Survey from Genworth Financial.

With Expanded Coverage for the Poor, Fears of a Big Headache (The New York Times, April 26, 2010)
Of all the changes wrought by the new health care law, none is more sweeping than the transformation of Medicaid - from the government’s health insurance plan for poor families into a much wider program for millions of the poorest Americans who cannot afford insurance on their own.