Reports Warn Of New Costs, Gaps Unfilled In Health Overhaul
Consumer protection provisions might make health plans more expensive, but will they do enough for the low-income, chronically ill patients who may need help the most?
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Obama: Health Reform Law Boosts Future Of Medicare
In his weekly address, the president said Medicare has a brighter future because of the new health law.
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Insurers To Help Doctors, Hospitals Buy Health IT
Health insurance companies are moving to help doctors and hospitals adopt electronic medical records with subsidies, bonuses for adoption and, in some cases, digital products to improve quality and disease management.
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Social Media Can Complicate But Also Improve Hospital Care
Social media changes health care delivery and raises concerns about privacy.
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Private Sleuths Take Time Referring Fraud Cases To Medicare
Private sleuths take time to refer fraud cases to Medicare.
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Nat’l Health Services Corps Spending More To Increase Primary Care Docs In Underserved Areas
National Health Services Corps in increasing funding to boost the number of medical school students willling to go into underserved areas.
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First Edition: August 9, 2010
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including dispatches from the campaign trail and highlights of the President's weekly address.
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Medicare’s Financial Position Improved, But Republicans Reject Rosy Projection
USA Today/ABC News reports that Republicans are saying that a new report from the Medicare Trustees that says the health law has improved the projections for the health program's solvency is "too rosy."
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Bloomberg BusinessWeek Explores Growing Trend In Pharma To License, Donate HIV Drugs
"Pharmaceutical companies, once blasted as uncaring or downright greedy for charging thousands of dollars for a year's worth of AIDS medicines
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Clinical Trials In Asia, Africa Confirm Safety, Effectiveness Of Rotavirus Vaccine
Two studies published online Thursday in the Lancet show that the rotavirus vaccine is safe and effective at preventing much of the gastrointestinal illness in developing countries, where it kills more than 400,000 children annually, Reuters reports. Based on the findings in Africa and Asia, the studies' authors "urged the governments of developing nations to make the vaccines a priority," the news service writes.
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Upbeat Medicare Solvency Report Quickly Finds Doubters
The health overhaul law will buttress Medicare for a dozen more years than previously expected, according a report issued Thursday by the program's trustees.
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Boston Globe Examines Rise Of Polio In Tajikistan, Other Pockets Of World
"Polio has reappeared in a corner of the world that had not seen cases in years
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Senate Gives Final Passage To State Aid Bill, House Summoned For Tuesday Vote
Senators voted to give $26 billion in aid to states and schools that includes $16 billion for Medicaid programs around the nation as the House prepares to return during its recess to cast votes on the legislation.
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Pres. Obama Announces Nominees For Two USAID Leadership Posts
President Barack Obama has announced his intention to fill two more leadership positions at USAID, Foreign Policy's "The Cable" blog reports. According to the blog, Donald Steinberg has been tapped as USAID deputy administrator and Nancy Lindborg as assistant administrator for the USAID Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Affairs Bureau.
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Overhaul Provisions On Abortion, IRS Reporting Requirements Stirring Up Capitol Hill
Two Senate Republicans Thursday introduced legislation to ban the federal government from giving subsidies to any insurance plan that covers abortions, The Hill reports.
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Research Roundup: Expanding Medicaid; More Spending Doesn’t Reduce Mortality; Colonoscopy Cost Effectiveness; Kids, Asthma And Access To Care
This week's research roundup features studies and briefs from Health Affairs, the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, the Archives of General Psychiatry, the Kaiser Family Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Institute of Medicine.
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Private Firms Take Up Torch Of Health IT Push
Health insurance companies, physicians professional associations and provider organizations are taking efforts to move hospitals and physicians towards meaningful use into their own hands.
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Today’s OpEds: Reform Battles, State Challenges To Law Loom Over Elections
Kaiser Health News presents a selection of Friday's opinions and editorials from across the country.
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More ERs Examine How To Incorporate Palliative Care, Change ‘Culture Of Care’
Two recent articles explore palliative care issues.
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