New Law Brings Changes To Health Insurance Rules This Week
On Thursday, provisions barring discrimination and expanding coverage go into effect.
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Insurers Say New Health Benefits Will Raise Premiums
CBS News looks at the war of words between the insurance industry, which says the new benefits guaranteed in the federal health law will raise premium prices, and the Obama administration.
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Political Cartoon: ‘Waiting For The Gavel To Drop’
Kaiser Health News provides a fresh take on health policy developments with "Waiting For The Gavel To Drop" by Jeff Parker.
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Carter Blames Ted Kennedy For Delay In Passing Health Bill
Former president tells "60 Minutes," "The fact is that we would have had comprehensive health care now, had it not been for Ted Kennedy's deliberately blocking the legislation that I proposed."
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Global Child Mortality Declines By One-Third Since 1990, U.N. Report Says
The number of children who die before age 5 has declined by one-third since 1990, Reuters reports.
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Financial Times Analyzes Increasing Pressures On Aid Groups To Demonstrate Accomplishments With Donor Money
Ahead of the U.N. Millennium Development Goal (MDG) summit, the Financial Times' Alan Beattie analyzes the effects of tightening aid budgets on development program funding, emphasizing how such changes are resulting in a push for increased measures to assess the effectiveness of aid.
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Global Fund Head Repeats Appeal For Emerging Countries To Invest More In Fight Against AIDS, TB, Malaria
Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria Director Michel Kazatchkine on Thursday repeated his appeal for emerging countries to scale up their contributions to fight the three major diseases, Agence France-Presse reports.
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Study Finds Mothers’ Education Levels Affect Child Mortality
A study published in the journal Lancet on Friday found that "a mother's education level has a huge, if indirect, effect on the health of her children," the Washington Post reports.
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Census Bureau: Recession Fuels Record Number Of Uninsured Americans
Based on data released yesterday, nearly every demographic and geographic group nationwide posted an increase in the uninsured rate.
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Judge Releases Schedule For Health Overhaul Lawsuit Proceedings; Poll Finds Voters Indifferent To Candidates’ Reform Positions
The federal judge overseeing a lawsuit brought by 20 states against health reform released a schedule this week that lays out how the case will proceed, The Hill reports.
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Health Premiums Rise As States Consider How They’ll Implement Reforms
Reuters reports that health insurance premiums rose 7 percent in 2009, even as the number of people with coverage fell.
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Lawmakers Debate Action On Stem Cell Research, Public Health Bills
Sen. Arlen Specter said at a Senate hearing Thursday that Congress should move on allowing the government to fund human embryonic stem cell research "to avoid giving a final say on the issue to a conservative Supreme Court," The Associated Press reports.
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Today’s Opinions: Recession’s Impact On The Uninsured; Repeal of Health Reform? Then What?
Kaiser Health News presents a selection of Friday's opinions and editorials from around the country.
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CBO Finds Generic Drugs Save Medicare $33 Billion In 2007
The Congressional Budget Office predicts savings will grow another $14 billion through 2012 as more generics come onto the market.
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La. Doctors Work From Scratch To Rebuild Local Health System; Mich. A.G. Sues Blue Cross Blue Shield Over Rate Changes; Wis. Health Programs Make Hefty Budget Request
States around the country face a range of health policy challenges.
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FDA And Medicare To Test Joint Decision-Making On Medical Products
Some companies and patients have complained that once a product goes through a long FDA approval process, it must then be reconsidered by Medicare.
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Research Roundup: Assessing Physician Quality; Community Health Centers’ Future; Why Doctors Take Gifts; Access To HIV Treatment
This week's research roundup includes studies from the Archives of Internal Medicine, Annals of Internal Medicine, Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice, the Kaiser Family Foundation, the Commonwealth Fund, the Institutes of Medicine, and the Journal of the American Medical Association.
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