Ford Pays Down Debt, Including To Workers’ Health Trust
Ford is paying off debt by the billions - $2 billion in the third quarter and as much as $3.6 billion by Friday - in a move that could end its obligation to its workers health trust.
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Health IT Roundup: Digital Divide, A VA Contract, The Open Data Movement
News organizations explore the health IT digital divide, a contract to build a new VA database and a health official's claim that the open data will revolutionize patient care.
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A Look At The AMA Panel Behind Medicare’s Payment Rates
A group of 29 physicians, convened by the American Medical Associations and often appointed by specialty trade groups, have the task of recommending how to divide Medicare money into payments for each service, procedure and treatment the program covers.
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First Edition: October 27, 2010
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including reports that the new health law has Democrats playing defense, while Republicans offer few new alternatives.
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Political Picture Still Dreary For Some Dems Who Backed Health Reform
In swing districts, incumbent Democrats who voted for the health law are struggling, as a new poll finds support for a repeal of the law.
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Health Care Angst Keeps Campaigns On Edge In Final Week
Interest and anger about health care is fueling tension in political campaigns for offices ranging from insurance commissioner to U.S. senator.
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Today’s Op-Eds: Cost-Sharing; Insurance Transparency Issues; Tea Party Funding
A selection of today's opinions and editorials from across the U.S.
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Coalition Pushes To Replace Conn. Insurance Commissioner; Ind. Lawmakers Raise Questions About Medicaid Program
States address a range of health policy issues.
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Reuters Examines How Harm Reduction Policies In Switzerland Could Serve As Model For Reducing Spread Of HIV/AIDS Among IDUs
"Switzerland's innovative policy of providing drug addicts with free methadone and clean needles has greatly reduced deaths while cutting crime rates and should serve as a global model, health experts said on Monday," Reuters reports in an article that examines the outcomes resulting from drug policy reform in the country (Nebehay, 10/25).
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ECSA Forum Kicks Off Monday With Discussion On Effects Of Funding, Health Worker Shortages On MDGs
"Officially opening the East, Central and Southern Africa (ECSA) forum on best practices and joint consultative meeting on Monday, [Zimbabwe Minister of Health and Child Welfare Henry] Madzorera said the shortage of health workers and the growing burden of communicable and non-communicable diseases had slowed down progress" toward achieving the U.N. Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), NewsDay reports.
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Bivalent Oral Polio Vaccine Produces Better Immune Response Than Trivalent Vaccine, Study Says
The bivalent oral polio vaccine (bOPV) was found to induce a "significantly higher immune response" than the existing trivalent oral polio vaccine (tOPV), according to a study published on Tuesday in the journal Lancet, Reuters reports (Kelland, 10/26).
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Guardian Examines Global Food Price Volatility
"Rising food prices and shortages could cause instability in many countries as the cost of staple foods and vegetables reached their highest levels in two years, with scientists predicting further widespread droughts and floods," the Guardian reports in a story examining the significance of rising food prices worldwide. The article points to several recent developments that have created cause for concern and includes quotes from global experts.
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IPS Reports On USAID’s Implementation And Procurement Reform
Inter Press Service examines recent changes at USAID in line with President Barack Obama's vision to help build "the capacity of developing countries so that they can develop themselves."
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Pharmaceutical Industry Pays Billions In Fraud Settlements; Walgreen Selling PBM Co.
Walgreen is bowing out of the pharmacy-benefits management business to focus on retail, worksite medical clinics, and specialty pharmacy; drugmakers slammed for false marketing
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New Technologies Streamline Health IT System; Electronic Medical Records Raise Privacy Issues
Sharing electronic medical records may get easier; healthcare providers use iPads to view health data; health plans offer online health consultations; electronic health records vulnerable to unlawful perusal.
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States, Insurers, Employers Move Forward With Health Law Implementation
News outlets report on efforts to implement the new health law, including high risk pools and insurer brochures that summarize health plan offerings.
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Medicare Growing Fiscally Unsustainable, Yet Remains Politically Untouchable
The Medicare program, "an indispensable safety net," is fiscally unsustainable as it drives the national debt higher each year, yet it may be politically untouchable, The Center for Public Integrity reports in the first of a multipart series.
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Physicians’ Efforts Keep Payments On Medicare Database Confidential
The Wall Street Journal mined a database with extensive information about Medicare payments and discovered a New York City doctor who most likely took more than $2 million from Medicare. But such practices are generally difficult to find because of the database's strict confidentiality requirements.
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