Today’s OpEds: A New Breed Of Medical Education, More On The Medicare ‘Doc Fix,’ Efforts To Cut Health Care Waste
Kaiser Health News presents a selection of Monday's opinions and editorials from around the country.
Archives: Morning Breakouts
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Feds Turn To More Comprehensive Tools To Find Health Care Fraud
Medicare officials turn to a fraud investigation model developed by regulators overseeing the stimulus funds.
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First Edition: June 28, 2010
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including the latest on the Senate's stalemate regarding the COBRA subsidy extension and enhanced Medicaid funding for states.
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High-Risk Health Insurance Pools Opening Soon
News outlets examine how states are coping with covering hard-to-insure people, confusion about insuring young adults and a COBRA subsidy extension.
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Obama Signs 6-Month Fix For Medicare Reimbursements To Doctors
Last night, the House approved, 417-1, a Senate bill staving off a 21 percent cut in Medicare payments to doctors. Some lawmakers grumbled the bill doesn't go far enough.
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Mass. Bill Would Lift Gift Ban; Workers Rally In Md., Minn.
Reports cover workforce and conflict-of-interest issues.
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Insurer Sees Coming Health Insurer ‘Oligopoly,’ Doctors Band Together On System Changes
Bloomberg Businessweek reports that health insurer WellPoint's investor-relations head said Thursday that U.S. health insurers are "moving towards an oligopoly" accelerated by health reform.
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Kansas Doctor And Wife Found Guilty Of Prescribing Painkillers, Causing Deaths
"A federal jury Thursday found a Kansas doctor and his wife guilty of conspiring to profit from illegally prescribing painkillers to dozens of patients who later died, in a case highlighting medical treatment of chronic pain sufferers and prescription drug abuse," the Associated Press reported.
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Mass. Legislature Denies Requests To Trim Municipal Health Benefits; N.Y. Ordered To Transfer People With Mental Illness Out Of Institutional Group Homes
States address a range of health care policy issues.
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WellPoint Research Leads To Limits On Use Of Boniva; FDA Spars With Tobacco Company
News outlets report on policies in the drug and tobacco industries.
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Pennsylvania Reports Drop In Hospital Infections, Other Patient Care Issues Include CT Scans
A Pennsylvania Department of Health report released Thursday has found that fewer patients contracted infections in the hospital in 2009 than a year earlier, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports.
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Senate Fails To Pass ‘Extenders’ Bill, State Medicaid Funding
After a bill to extend jobs and economic relief programs failed for a third time in the Senate Thursday, Majority Leader Harry Reid announced he would withdraw the bill.
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WCO Signs Declaration, Vows To Crack Down On Counterfeit Drug Industry
World Customs Organization (WCO) Secretary General Kunio Mikuriya on Thursday signed a declaration vowing his group's commitment to crack down on the counterfeit drug industry, PBS NewsHour's "The Rundown" blog reports. The piece examines the growing threat of counterfeit medications and efforts to clamp down on the distribution of such drugs (Miller, 6/24).
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Report Highlights Economic Growth, Potential In Africa
A report from the consulting firm McKinsey & Company said "global businesses cannot afford to ignore the potential" in African economies, the New York Times reports.
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G8 Leaders To Discuss Economic Policy, Developing World, Maternal And Child Health, Haitian Rebuilding
Ahead of the G8 summit, which begins Friday in Canada, "leaders engaged in a series of dueling letters and interviews that exposed their conflicts" in how to foster global economic recovery, the Associated Press reports. The G8
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Calif. Hospitals Bank On Tech Investments
Some California hospitals are bolstering their technology investments in the hope of to reaping stimulus funds or finding new savings.
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UNDP, UNAIDS Launch Global Commission On HIV, Law
The U.N. Development Program (UNDP) together with UNAIDS on Thursday announced a commission formed to examine how legal environments affect HIV/AIDS efforts, VOA News reports (DeCapua, 6/24).
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New Center Opens For Vets With Traumatic Brain Injuries And Psychological Issues
New center opens for veterans with traumatic brain injury, post-traumatic stress disorder and other pyschological issues.
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Mass. Panel Overturns Cap On Insurer’s Premiums; Calif. Finds ‘Substantial’ Errors In Planned Premium Increase
A Massachusetts insurance appeals board overturned the state's cap on a premium increase for Harvard Pilgrim Health Care. California's Department of Insurance said it found "substantial mathematical errors" in rate increases planned by Aetna.
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