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Health Law Among Obama’s Accomplishments As He Makes Case For Second Term
During the final night of the Democratic convention, President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden pledged to protect Medicare from GOP proposals to turn it into what they called a voucher program and extolled the benefits of the health law.
More Than Just Facts: Convention Speeches Feature Poetic License, Omissions, Flaws
News outlets check the facts offered in the Thursday night convention speeches by President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden.
IOM Report: Estimated $750B Wasted Annually In Health Care System
The Institute of Medicine offers an analysis of how the money is misspent and some steps that might address these trouble spots.
How Medicaid Reaches Into The Middle Class
The New York Times details how Medicaid plays an important safety-net role regarding long-term care costs. Meanwhile, some states are wrestling with ways to cut the program’s eligibility.
Paul Ryan Sticks To Medicare Stump Speech, Even After Clinton Critique
Headlines offer a range of developments from the Romney-Ryan campaign, including reports about its advertising strategy, Ryan’s response — or lack of one — to former President Bill Clinton’s criticism and a fact check regarding their Medicare policy.
Schumer Seeks To Put GOP Senators On Defensive Regarding Ryan Medicare Plan
Also in the news, Democrats are using the Medicare issue to target two veteran GOP lawmakers in California.
Viewpoints: Obama’s ‘Talk Of Tough Choices’; Championing Personal Responsibility
A selection of editorials and opinions on health care from around the nation.
State Leaders Wrangle Over Approaches To Health Insurance Marketplaces
Officials and business leaders in Wyoming, Kansas and Michigan are considering their next moves among the myriad options of how to approach federally or state-based health insurance marketplaces.
State News: Fla. Hospitals Fight Over Trauma Center Rules
A selection of health policy stories from Texas, Florida, California, Virginia and Oregon.
Doctors As Delegates And Health Reform Activists
In this pair of stories, Medpage Today offers the view seen from the Democratic convention floor by two physician delegates as well as a look at a doctors’ group dedicated to supporting the health law.
DOJ Joins Whistle-Blower Case Against Fla. Hospice
The Department of Justice is joining a case against a hospice provider in Orlando accused by a former executive of admitting Medicare patients who did not qualify for care to collect the payments. Meanwhile, state officials announce Medicaid fraud settlements, with GlaxoSmithKline in North Carolina, and Planned Parenthood in Illinois.
Research Roundup: Reducing Risk In Shared Savings Programs
This week’s studies come from Health Affairs, The New England Journal of Medicine and the Annals of Internal Medicine.
First Edition: September 7, 2012
Today’s early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including examinations of health policy references in yesterday’s Democratic convention speeches.
Clinton Skewers GOP On Medicare, Offers Strong Defense Of Obama On Health Law
In former President Bill Clinton’s speech to nominate Barack Obama for re-election, he made a point-by-point case to return Obama to a second term, lauding his efforts to strengthen Medicare and Medicaid and to pass the health law.
Democratic Speakers Rally Around Health Law
During Wednesday’s convention proceedings, speakers criticized what they described as Republican plans to “voucher-ize Medicare” and touted provisions of the health law already in effect, such as coverage for children with pre-existing medical conditions, the closing Medicare Part D “doughnut hole” and the ability to keep young people on their parents’ policies until age 26.
Conservatives Say Dems’ Attack on Medicare Plan Is ‘Misleading’
Republican pundits dispute the description of their plans to overhaul Medicare as a defined-contribution, rather than a defined-benefit program ‘vouchercare,’ and say that repealing the health law would spur innovation.
State Roundup: Judge Keeps Calif. Prison Health Care Under Fed Control
A selection of health policy stories from California, New York, Indiana, Kansas, Texas and Wisconsin.
A selection of editorials and opinions on health care from around the nation.
NFL Donates $30 Million For Research On Brain Injuries
The National Football League pledged the funds to the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health to support research to foster a better understanding of the long-term repercussions of head traumas experienced by athletes and members of the military.
Kansas Blue Cross Executive Pitches One Of His Plans To Define ‘Essential Benefits’ Benchmark
An executive with Blue Cross Blue Shield in Kansas is stumping for one of his company’s plans to become the measure by which other plans’ “essential benefits” are judged.
