Election Postmortems Continue Regarding Health Overhaul
Those following health care all asking themselves a version of this question: Was the health overhaul behind Election Day's Republican sweep?
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Today’s Op-Eds: The Medicare Cost-Cutting Debate; Two Perspectives On ‘Repeal And Replace’
Opinions and editorials from around the country.
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Duke Focuses On Community Health In N.C.; Baltimore Mental Health Agency’s Practices Raise Questions; Mass. Clinic’s Efforts To Curb Diabetes Highlighted
States address a range of health policy issues.
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Children Of Deployed Parents More Likely To Suffer Mental Health Problems
A new study finds that young children in military families are more likely to see a doctor for a mental health issues if a parent is deployed than when the parent is home.
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Feds Crack Down On Fraud By Issuing New Medicaid Rules, Helping Medical Students Catch Fraud
Federal officials Friday issued new rules requiring states to set up audit operations for Medicaid payments. They also put out a guide for medical students to help them spot Medicare fraud.
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9/11 Workers Reach Settlement Deadline
Thousands of workers suing New York City over health problems related to the 9/11 cleanup operations must decide whether to join a massive legal settlement or take their cases to trial.
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Employers Struggle With Increasing Costs To Insure Workers
Employers struggle with increasing costs to insure workers and cover health care costs.
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Firms Pursue New Digital Technologies To Meet Stimulus- and Health Law-Fueled Provider Demand
Health IT companies hope to cash in on new government-driven demand for their products while their physician customers hope they'll get some savings, too.
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Government Cutting Premiums For Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan
The Department of Health and Human Services hopes to spur lagging enrollment by making the coverage for people with medical conditions more affordable.
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Hospitals In Tennessee, Oregon Invest In New Growth
News outlets report on the hospital markets in Tennessee and Oregon.
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Insurer News: Anthem Blue Cross And Blue Shield To Play ‘Significant’ Role In Va. Implementation; Cigna Report Lauds Consumer-Directed Plans
Anthem braces for the challenges of implementing the health overhaul while Cigna offers a report about consumer-directed health plans.
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Health Reform Updates: Biotech Grants, Privacy Issues And Birth Control Coverage
Firms vying to tap the fund a $1 billion fund meant to catalyze research on new biologic treatments for cancer and other diseases may be disappointed in the outcome.
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CMS To Review Cancer Vaccine, Analysis Shows High Medicare Drug Spending Not Correlated With Better Care
A CMS "national coverage review" is reigniting a familiar debate about whether some treatments are too costly for Medicare coverage.
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Seniors Need To Check Options As Medicare Advantage Plans Change, Drop Out
As Medicare's open season approaches, seniors should check out changs in Medicare Advantage plans and prescription drug plans to see what is the best option.
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Doctors Abandon Traditional Practice For Concierge Medicine, Hospital Employment
News outlets report on trends in physician employment.
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First Edition: November 8, 2010
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including more post-mortem reports about the health law's impact on the election.
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GOP Prepares To Challenge Health Law On Federal, State Levels
On Sunday talk shows and in news outlets, Republicans said they would manuever to repeal or change the health reform law.
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U.N. Human Development Report Finds Significant Quality Of Life Gains Among Many Developing Countries Over Last 40 Years, But Gaps Persist
"People around the globe are healthier, richer and better educated than ever before, with most developing countries registering huge gains over the last 40 years, a U.N. report [.pdf] released Thursday shows," the Canadian Press reports.
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Hurricane Tomas Hits Haiti’s Tent Camps, Could Complicate Efforts To Stem Cholera Outbreak
Tropical storm Tomas "is on a path toward the island of Hispaniola and is expected to strengthen into a hurricane and make landfall Friday, with possible winds of 74 mph and heavy rains," PBS' NewsHour reports.
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Scientists Identify Genes That Enable Some Immune Systems To Halt HIV; Finding Could Spur Drug, Vaccine Development
"Tiny variants in a protein that alerts the body to infection could explain how one in 300 HIV-infected people are able to resist the onset of AIDS for years without needing any treatment, researchers said Thursday" in a study published online in the journal Science, Agence France-Presse reports (11/4). "The findings are encouraging for the development of vaccines because they tell scientists how the immune system might be manipulated to fend off HIV," the Independent writes (Connor, 11/5).
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