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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Those following health care all asking themselves a version of this question: Was the health overhaul behind Election Day's Republican sweep?
Opinions and editorials from around the country.
States address a range of health policy issues.
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.
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.
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.
Employers struggle with increasing costs to insure workers and cover health care costs.
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.
The Department of Health and Human Services hopes to spur lagging enrollment by making the coverage for people with medical conditions more affordable.
News outlets report on the hospital markets in Tennessee and Oregon.
Anthem braces for the challenges of implementing the health overhaul while Cigna offers a report about consumer-directed health plans.
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.
A CMS "national coverage review" is reigniting a familiar debate about whether some treatments are too costly for Medicare coverage.
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.
News outlets report on trends in physician employment.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including more post-mortem reports about the health law's impact on the election.
On Sunday talk shows and in news outlets, Republicans said they would manuever to repeal or change the health reform law.
"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.
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.
"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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