Health IT Implementation Plan: ‘Bold Incrementalism’
Farzad Mostashari, a senior official in the government's health IT office, said in a speech Tuesday that the strategy for implementing federal ehealth efforts is one of "bold incrementalism."
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Republicans, Obama Administration Spar Over Health Overhaul
A Heritage Foundation-affiliated conservative advocacy group, Heritage Action, will begin targeting lawmakers "at home in their districts" who fail to support the GOP-led efforts to repeal the overhaul with political ads and other tactics.
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HHS Announces $250 Million In Federal Funding To Boost Primary Care Providers
Money would include funds to help increase the number of doctors, nurses and physician assistants. Some Democrats are concerned, however, that they money won't be used for prevention programs.
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Drug Makers Face Tightened Regulations By FDA And Less Clout At Medical Meetings
News outlets report on the pharmaceutical industry and the enactment of a new requirement by the Food and Drug Administration.
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Loss Of Manhattan Hospital Crowds Other ERs; Utah Discourages Medicaid Patients From Unnecessary ER Visits
"Emergency rooms in downtown Manhattan have become more crowded since St. Vincent's Hospital closed in April, but ambulances are getting patients into the remaining ERs faster than they did when the 161-year-old Greenwich Village hospital was open," Wall Street Journal reports.
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WSJ: Study On Eye Medicine Reveals Possible Savings For Medicare
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Medicare could save $500 million a year by switching from one type of eye medicine to another.
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First Edition: June 17, 2010
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including the findings from a new AP-GfK poll regarding the health care law and the latest Medicare "doc fix" developments in the Senate.
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Senate Rejects Plan To Extend Jobless Aid, Avert Looming Medicare Cuts
On Wednesday, every Senate Republican and 12 Democrats rejected by a 52-45 vote a White House-backed proposal. Later, Sen. Max Baucus unveiled an alternative that would 'fix' the Medicare payments through November.
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CDC Survey Shows 3 Million More Uninsured In 2009
The number of uninsured Americans increased slightly last year, compared with 2008, but the change was not statistically significant according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics.
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Doctors Still Waiting For Capitol Hill Action On Medicare Payment Cuts
Congress's failure to address looming 21-percent cuts to physician Medicare payments have left doctors questioning whether to continue participating in the program.
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Race Is On For Money For Early Retirees; Insurers Prepare For Health Law’s New Customers
Consultants are pushing big companies to apply quickly for a $5 billion fund to help cover retiree health costs as part of the overhaul.
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Financial Times Examines How GAVI’s $2.6B Shortfall Might Affect New Vaccine Programs In Developing Countries
GAVI Alliance's plan to introduce new vaccine projects in the developing world "is under threat amid the international economic downturn," the Financial Times reports. "Subsidies to extend the use of vaccines against rubella, HPV to tackle cervical cancer, cholera and Japanese encephalitis in the developing world are among those likely to be cancelled or delayed, the head of the U.N.-backed" Alliance's CEO Julian Lob-Levyt said, the newspaper writes.
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Rand Paul, Who Opposed Federal ‘Handouts,’ Is Criticized For Taking Medicare Patients; Other Health Politics News
Rand Paul, a Kentucky GOP Senate candidate, sees Medicare and Medicaid patients, even as he opposes the federal programs and is facing criticism from his Democratic opponent for not releasing his Medicare billing records.
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Global Agriculture Output To Meet World Food Demand As Food Prices Escalate Over Decade, Report Says
Food prices are projected to rise over the next decade, with the cost of some grains increasing between 15 and 40 percent, according to an annual report, released Tuesday, from the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), VOA News reports (6/15).
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VOA News Examines Countdown To 2015 Report Calling For Additional 700,000 Midwives To Reduce Maternal, Newborn Deaths Worldwide
VOA News examines the Countdown to 2015 report (.pdf), which says that a lack of trained birth attendants is contributing to more than two million stillbirths, maternal and newborn deaths annually (Smith, 6/15).
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Two-Day Conference Examines Effectiveness Of U.N. Pilot Program To Coordinate Development Assistance
A two-day conference examining the effectiveness of a pilot program aimed at improving the coherence and effectiveness of U.N. assistance is taking place this week in Ha Noi, Vietnam, South Asian News Agency reports.
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States Push For Additional Medicaid Funding With Budget Cuts On The Horizon
Inside Health Policy reports that Democrats and Hospital groups are pushing harder for the Senate to increase Medicaid payments as part of the "tax extenders" bill being considered in the upper chamber.
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State Round-Up: Calif. Orders Review Of Insurers’ Planned Rate Hikes; S.D. Targets Young Smokers
Oregon makes minor cuts to state workers' health benefits; Maine probes cost of health overhaul; medical mart planned for Cleveland.
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