Republicans Maintain Calls For Repeal As Health Reform Reverberations Continue
As the impact from the health care vote ripples across the country, House Republican Leader John Boehner said Monday that repealing the law is the GOP's "No. 1 priority."
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Investigators Tout Fraud Convictions In California, Florida and New York
Authorities are crediting their Medicare and Medicaid fraud initiatives for convictions and guilty pleas in California, Florida and New York this week.
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Newsweek Examines Tech Startup’s Tools To Fight Malaria
Newsweek examines the work of Intellectual Ventures, a Seattle-based startup that is "trying to develop a computer model that could help eradicate malaria."
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States Examine Role In Health Reform Implementation, Worry Over Scams
Reuters reports that the federal government is turning to states to "to institute key components" of the health overhaul law, "some of which have never existed before."
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Patients Focus On High Cost Of ER Care
As care in the emergency department proves costly, patients sometime crunch the numbers.
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North Carolina Lawmakers Consider Medical Tax; Georgia Insurance Commission Says State Should Reject High-Insurance Pools
States tackle several health care policy issues.
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After Close Call, Actor Dennis Quaid Takes On Medical Mistakes
After nearly losing twin newborns to a medical mistake
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Today’s OpEds: Repealing The Health Law, Native American Health, H1N1 Lessons
Kaiser Health News presents a selection of opinions and editorials.
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Drug Company Payments To Doctors: Continuing Controversy
The New York Times has two stories on pharmaceutical industry payments to physicians and experts.
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In Italy And In Second Life, Hospitals Succeed By Challenging Status Quo
In Italy putting public and private hospitals on equal financial footing led to improved quality in both. In the United States, training real health-care workers in cyberspace may be paying off.
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Florida Lawmakers Weigh Medicaid Overhaul
Florida House proposal would move all state Medicaid beneficiaries into managed care plans. But some advocacy groups are urging lawmakers to study the proposal for another year.
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Medical Schools Scramble To Address Doctor Shortage
The Wall Street Journal reports on the shortage of doctors the country is facing - "150,000 in 15 years."
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Health IT Roundup: Data Exchange, Personal Health Records On The Rise
More patients are using consumer-friendly health records online, but those with lower incomes and more chronic disease who have the most to gain are slower to adopt the new technology.
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Massachusetts Judge Denies Insurers’ Requests For Double-Digit Rate Hikes
After losing request for preliminary injunction, insurers will pursue appeals with state Division of Insurance and can eventually take the case back to court.
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First Edition: April 13, 2010
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including reports about the Senate's procedural vote to extend COBRA subsidies and a ruling by a Massachusetts court rejecting a bid by health insurers to raise premiums.
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Navajo Nation Expects Changes From Health Reform
Indian Country Today reports on the changes coming to the Navajo Nation as health care reform law gets implemented.
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Senate Poised For Today’s COBRA Subsidy Extension Vote
As Congress reconvenes today, one of the first orders of business is a procedural vote on the 65 percent subsidy that helps laid-off Americans pay for their COBRA health insurance premiums.
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Boston Globe Examines How PEPFAR Budget Pressures Are Affecting AIDS Clinics In Africa
"U.S. officials have asked some AIDS clinics overseas to stop enrolling new patients in a U.S.-sponsored program that provides lifesaving antiretroviral drugs, in a bid to stem the rising costs of one of the most ambitious US assistance programs, according to interviews with doctors and official correspondence," the Boston Globe reports.
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Experts Begin Probe Of WHO’s Response To H1N1
Health experts on Monday began a probe of how the WHO responded to the H1N1 (swine flu) pandemic "nearly a year after global alarm was raised over the new swine flu strain," Agence France-Presse reports (Capella, 4/12).
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