As complaints pile up, lawmakers overseeing Medicaid privatization haven't met this year Jason Clayworth,jclayworth@dmreg.comPublished 3:12 p.m. CT Aug. 20, 2017 | Updated 3:14 p.m. CT Aug. 20, 2017 A legislative committee tasked with oversight of the [...]
Allegations that private companies are terminating and reducing health services of Iowa's poorest and oldest populations has increased, multiple reports show Centered largely on allegations of terminated or reduced health services, complaints about Iowa’s privatized [...]
DES MOINES — Before the 2016 election, political advocacy groups funded by billionaire brothers from Kansas donated tens of thousands of dollars to Republican candidates for the Iowa Legislature and reached hundreds of thousands of [...]
Des Moines RegisterPublished 5:45 p.m. CT April 28, 2017 | Updated 6:27 p.m. CT April 28, 2017 Privatization hasn't worked for anyone Perhaps it wasn’t obvious before, but it should be now: If the hired [...]
Last fall, Republicans running for legislative seats deployed TV ads and mailers promising to “fix our schools,” among other such pledges. It seemed there was no issue GOP candidates cared more about than education. So [...]
• Erin Murphy Times Bureau • Apr 7, 2017 Updated Apr 8, 2017 DES MOINES -- A mere five years ago Iowa’s state budget had nearly $1 billion to spare and its reserve accounts were [...]
Linley Sanders, Associated PressPublished 2:00 p.m. CT April 2, 2017 | Updated 19 hours ago DES MOINES, Ia. — With Republicans in control of state government, Iowa union leaders approached this legislative session with apprehension, [...]
Tony Leys , tleys@dmreg.comPublished 3:09 p.m. CT March 24, 2017 | Updated 5:43 p.m. CT March 24, 2017 State leaders have agreed to help private Medicaid management companies shoulder huge losses they’ve suffered in covering [...]
William Petroski and Brianne Pfannenstiel , Des Moines RegisterPublished 2:52 p.m. CT March 14, 2017 | Updated 16 hours ago A decline in the state's revenue forecast will force the Iowa Legislature to plug a [...]
BY BARBARA RODRIGUEZ Associated Press LINKEDIN GOOGLE+ PINTEREST REDDIT PRINT ORDER REPRINT OF THIS STORY DES MOINES, IOWA Why is Iowa in the position of struggling to pay its bills despite a relatively strong economy? [...]