Report: 10 Recommendations On How To Achieve ACO Success
Modern Healthcare reports on a new Commonwealth Fund report on the recommendations offered by a 17-member expert commission.
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A History Lesson As Three Major Health Laws Mark Anniversaries
California Healthline reflects on the 1986 Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act, the 2006 Massachusetts' health expansion and the federal health law as each marks a birthday.
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Congress To Vote On Short-Term Spending Plan
As details of this hard-fought compromise continue to emerge, conservative opposition to it is taking hold. Meanwhile, other interests express concern about the impact of specific cuts, such as those to community health centers.
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House Votes To Slash Health Law’s Public Health Fund
Almost entirely along party-lines, the House voted to repeal a provision of the health law that establishes a trust fund to support prevention and public health activities. Opponents of the trust fund said it was a "slush fund" for the HHS secretary, but the White House responded by threatening a veto.
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Boehner Offers ‘Unswerving Support’ For Ryan’s Medicare Plan
The LA Times reports that House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, is advancing within the GOP caucus the budget plan offered by Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., that would reshape Medicare and Medicaid.
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Longer Looks: Cities Coping With Aging Populations; New Apps For Health
A list of good reading options includes articles from The New York Times Magazine, The Weekly Standard, Governing, American Medical News and Hospitals & Health Networks Weekly.
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State Roundup: Pa. May Put Half Of AdultBasic Members On Medicaid
Today's news reports come from Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Texas, Oklahoma, Florida and Georgia.
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Calif. Joins Suit Against Sutter Health, Alleges Fraud Charges For Anesthesia
The state insurance commissioner says the company, one of California's largest health care providers, double billed for some services and overcharged for others. Sutter denies the allegations.
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First Edition: April 14, 2011
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including examinations of how President Obama's deficit plan would handle health care spending.
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Obama Plan Builds On Health Law Policies To Further Curb The Growth Of Health Care Costs
Summaries of news coverage of the health-related proposals that the White House says would save an additional $340 billion by 2021, $480 billion by 2023 and at least an additional $1 trillion in the subsequent decade.
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Driving Safety Initiative Launched To Help Reduce Road Accident Casualties
The independent Commission for Global Road Safety on Tuesday in London announced the launch of the Driving Safety Initiative to "help reduce worldwide crash casualties," the New York Times' "Wheels" blog reports.
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Report Highlights Dangers Aid Workers Face, Suggests Strategies To Ensure Their Safety
Over the past decade, humanitarian aid worker casualties have tripled, rising to more than 100 deaths per year, according to a report (.pdf) released Tuesday by the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Assistance (OCHA), the Associated Press reports (Snow, 4/12).
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Radiation Leaked From Japan’s Nuclear Power Plant Does Not Pose Immediate Public Health Risk, WHO Says
The decision on Tuesday by Japan's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency to increase the level of severity at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant "does not mean the public health risk is any worse or that the disaster resembles Chernobyl in 1986," the WHO and other agencies said in response to the announcement, Reuters reports.
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Media Report On Additional FY11 Budget Details
Multiple news outlets examined the proposed reductions of the FY11 spending measure that was released on Tuesday.
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WHO Group Hopes To Have Virus-Sharing Draft Agreement Finalized By Friday
Countries are narrowing in on a "deal to speed up their response to the next flu pandemic by sharing virus samples in return for access to affordable vaccines," co-chairs of a WHO working group told reporters on Tuesday, Reuters reports. The group, which is meeting this week and just last week was in meetings with drug manufacturers and WHO member states about the plans, says it hopes to have a draft agreement finalized by Friday to be voted on during next month's World Health Assembly, according to the news service (Nebehay, 4/12).
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House GOP Budget Plan Under The Microscope
More details of the House GOP budget plan are taking shape, including the blueprint's inclusion of Democratic Medicare cuts that were subject to Republican criticism during the election season. Other parts of the health law also would stay intact. Meanwhile, the full House is scheduled to vote on the 2012 budget measure this week.
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Viewpoints: Dems Vs. Ryan On Entitlement Cuts; Defending Planned Parenthood
A selection of opinions and editorials from around the country.
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NPR Examines History Behind Recent Congressional Fight Over Planned Parenthood Funding
Despite what NPR characterizes as "three decades" of continuing efforts to "defund" Planned Parenthood, efforts to change the current approach have been unsuccessful. And that makes abortion opponents angry.
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Barbour Takes On Health Care Issues
In a speech to the Congressional Health Care Caucus, Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour (R) discussed a range of issues related to health reform, including the role of consumers in addressing health care costs, state flexibility and, of course, "RomneyCare."
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