Responding To Access-To-Care Challenges: Ideas From A Rural Doctor, A Washington, D.C. Hospital
Doctors in rural areas are hopeful that the new health law will improve the services available to patients.
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Hospital Jobs Hurt In Some Places, Expand In Others, As Recession Pinches
Although some hospitals are feeling the recession's budget pinch, 400 low-income and unemployed residents are receiving job-training and placement at local hospitals to tap into the need for workers, the Los Angeles Times reports.
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Mental Health Care Suffers As Recession Hurts State’s Bottom Lines
Mental health budgets are suffering as a lingering recession affects state bottom lines in America, Stateline reports.
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Applying A Supermarket Strategy To Patient-Specific Marketing
Some hospitals are applying marketing lessons learned from this unlikely source to send consumers the information they need or want.
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Today’s OpEds: Public Opinion And Health Reform; Hospitals And Cost Cuts; Medicare Fraud ‘Gusher’
Kaiser Health News presents a selection of Monday's opinions and editorials from across the country.
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New Health Care Leaders Named
News outlets report on new leadership appointments at key health care groups.
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First Edition: July 19, 2010
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations, featuring the latest on the politics of implementing health reform as well as developments from the international AIDS conference now underway in Vienna.
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Insurance Industry Still Affected By Financial Crisis, Report Finds
Insurance Industry Still Affected By Financial Crisis, Report Finds
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Sen. Roberts Lashes Out At Recess Appointment Of Berwick
Kansas Republican uses GOP's weekly address to criticize President Barack Obama for "bypassing" the Senate. "Without a public confirmation hearing on Dr. Berwick's nomination, the Senate and the American people do not have the opportunity to learn about the man who will control one third of all health care spending in America," Roberts said.
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94 Indicted In Five-State Crackdown On Medicare Fraud
The raids come as federal officials warn of increasingly sophisticated -- and violent -- fraud schemes. "With today's arrests, we're putting would-be criminals on notice: health care fraud is no longer a safe bet," Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. said.
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Study Examines HIV-Positive Patients’ Death Risk At CD4 Counts Above 350
"Having HIV appears to be associated with a greater risk of death, even when the immune system is relatively robust and patients have not started treatment," according to a study published Friday in the Lancet, MedPage Today reports (Smith, 7/15).
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Capitol Hill Watch: Obama Agenda Under Scrutiny As Lawmakers Talk Medicare, Budgets
President Obama's agenda, which includes a sweeping overhaul of the health care system, is coming under increased political scrutiny as lawmakers talk budgets, medical bankruptcy and improper Medicare payments.
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GOP Wants To Know If Supreme Court Nominee Kagan Would Recuse Herself From Health Reform Case
Reports continue to explore news that Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee want more information on if Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan would recuse herself from considering a health reform case because of her involvement with the Obama administration.
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FCC To Step Up Rural Broadband For Health Care
A federal agency is stepping up investments in health IT for rural hospitals.
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Capitol Hill Hearing Examines Health, Social Consequences Of Child Marriage
VOA News covered a hearing on Capitol Hill Thursday, which addressed child marriage in the developing world and its impact on girls and communities (Presto, 7/15).
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Meet The Actuary Who Unwound Anthem’s Big Rate Increase Request
The story of David Axene, the California actuary who unwound the mistaken math behind Anthem Blue Cross's request to raise rates by up to 39 percent earlier this year.
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Today’s OpEds: Shift Entitlement Spending To The States; The Lack Of A GOP Health Plan; Battling Tobacco
Kaiser Health News presents a selection of Friday's opinions and editorials from across the country.
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