State News: Ex-Anthem Blue Cross President Speaks Out; Clinics To Fill In N.M. Primary Care Gap
States address a range of health care policy issues.
Archives: Morning Breakouts
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Medical Error Tab Nearly $20 Billion; Study Says Catholic Hospitals Give Better Care
The Wall Street Journal Health Blog reports that a study by the Society of Actuaries has put the cost of medical errors at nearly $20 billion in 2008.
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N.Y. Attorney General Investigates Health Care Credit Cards For Possible ‘Predatory Health Care Lending’
N.Y. Attorney General Andrew Cuomo investigates health care credit cards for possible 'predatory health care lending.'
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Payment Practices Investigated; Texas Docs Team With Hospitals On Payment Reform
The New York Times reports that the White House is investigating widespread practices that don't pay nurses and other employees at hospitals and nursing homes properly for overtime they work.
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Health Care On The Home Front: Telemedicine Helps Seniors; Pediatricians Seeing Young Adults
Medical care addresses age issues with telemedicine increasingly helping to care for seniors and pediatricians increasingly caring for young adults. Meanwhlie, some companies explore ways to aid employees in end-of-life care-giving.
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U.S. Senators Introduce Legislation To Encourage R&D Aimed At Neglected Pediatric Diseases
"New bipartisan legislation was introduced in the U.S. Senate last week which seeks to encourage innovative [research and development] R&D by drugmakers aimed at treating rare and neglected pediatric diseases," PharmaTimes reports.
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First Edition: August 10, 2010
Early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including previews of today's House action on a state aid package that includes $16 billion of federal Medicaid assistance.
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Businesses Explore End-Of-Life Initiatives To Help Employees With Caregiving
Businesses explore end-of-life initiatives to help employees with caregiving.
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U.N. Says Nearly 14M Pakistanis Affected By Floods
On Monday the U.N. said that 13.8 million people have been effected by the floods in Pakistan as the death toll has now reached 1,600, Agence France-Presse reports.
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Surveillance Systems Find No Major Disease Outbreaks Since Haiti Quake; Media Examine Aid Disbursements
Haitian and U.S. public health experts recently reported that two new surveillance systems set up in Haiti after the January earthquake showed that no major disease outbreaks had developed and that the new systems could be part of the foundation of the country's health system in the long term, Reuters reports. The findings were published Friday in the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR).
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H1N1 Pandemic Could Be Declared Over Soon, WHO’s Chan Says
The WHO's decision to declare the H1N1 (swine flu) pandemic officially over could come within weeks, according to WHO Director-General Margaret Chan, the Canadian Press reports.
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CQ Weekly Reports On Advocates’ Response To Obama Administration’s Domestic, Global HIV/AIDS Efforts
CQ Weekly examines how HIV/AIDS advocates are "[i]Increasingly dissatisfied with [President Barack] Obama's approach, both at home and abroad." According to the article, some advocates say that Obama and congressional Democrats "have failed to show the political will and marshal the necessary resources" to fight HIV/AIDS.
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House Members Returning For Vote On Extra Medicaid Help
House members, in the midst of their August recess, are taking the unusual step of returning to Washington Tuesday for a vote on $16 billion in enhanced Medicaid aid for cash-strapped states.
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Virginia Attorney General, Governor Talk Health Reform Mandate; Missouri Vote Still Reverberating
The new health law's requirement that everyone have health insurance, beginning in 2014, continues to be debated by politicians.
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Lancet World Report Examines How U.N. Women Agency Will Work To Address Global Health Issues
A Lancet World Report article examines how many are looking to the new U.N. agency tasked with advancing women's equality and rights to help improve the health of women in developing countries.
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Today’s OpEds: U.S. Vs. Nordic Health Care; Medicare Solvency; Patients And Health Costs; Mystery Of ACOs
Editorials and opinion columns address opaque medical pricing, Medicare's birthday, Medicare actuary Richard Foster's latest work and the lingering Medicare physician payment problem.
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Pay-For-Performance Makes Its Way Into Dialysis Clinics
A new Medicare rule may ding dialysis centers by up to two percent of their reimbursement in 2012 if they don't meet quality standards the agency sets.
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Calif. Considers Reduction In Funding For Home Care Aides; Ill. Union Workers Strike Over Health Issues At Uranium Conversion Plant
States address a range of health policy issues.
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DOJ Likely To Intervene In St. Jude Heart Device Kickback Lawsuit
The U.S. Department of Justice may intervene in a lawsuit against heart-device maker St. Jude Medical Inc. after allegations the company used medical studies to pay kickbacks and boost use of the device, The Wall Street Journal reports.
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