Groups Take To Streets, Airwaves For Health Reform Endgame
Reports cover last-minute attempts to influence the health debate.
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Increased Focus On Role Of Nurses In Health Care
Specialist nurses last year were paid higher average salaries than primary care doctors, while Kentucky considers a bill that would give Nurse Practitioners more autonomy.
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Experts: Americans Get Too Many Tests, Too Much Treatment
Experts say doctors often overtest and overtreat patients, and that doesn't necessarily mean better care.
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Texas Rethinks Disease Management Program
Since 2004 Texas has run a disease management program they believed would improve care for Medicaid patients and save the state money.
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Stimulus Funds Boost Utah Health IT Pipeline
Utah's health department will use $6.3 million in federal dollars to build a "computer pipeline" that will allow doctors and hospitals to share patient information.
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First Editon: March 12, 2010
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including Democrats' efforts to reach health reform consensus and Republican plans to stall any such momentum.
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Congress, Obama Continue Health Reform Push
As Dems report progress on crafting the legislation, the Republican strategy regarding reconciliation takes shape.
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Health Bill Deal ‘Close’ Though Some Democrats – And All Republicans – Hold Out
Democrats are reportedly close to a final agreement on a health reform bill as they seek to alleviate concerns from holdouts on some of the bill's provisions.
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Obama Makes Impassioned Argument For Health Reform, Tough Measures To Combat Health Fraud
A shirt-sleeved President Obama took his closing arguments for health care reform to St. Louis Wednsday and told the audience there that the time for talking on health care reform is over and that combating health care fraud would help save costs in the system.
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Obama Renews Promise To Assist With Haiti’s Earthquake Recovery During Preval’s Visit To The White House
"President Barack Obama on Wednesday renewed America's commitment to the recovery and reconstruction of earthquake-devastated Haiti, telling visiting President Rene Preval he knows the crisis has not passed," the Associated Press/TIME reports (Feller, 3/10).
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More U.S. Investment In Diplomacy, Development Needed, Say Former Military Leaders
A group of former U.S. military leaders have joined "recent calls by Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Michael Mullen to expand U.S. civilian capacities to reduce dependence on the military," Politico's Laura Rozen reports on her blog.
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AIDS 2010 To Highlight Epidemic In Eastern Europe, Central Asia Regions
AIDS 2010, the International AIDS Conference to be held July 18-23 in Vienna, Austria, will "highlight the situation in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, regions experiencing fast growing [HIV/AIDS] epidemics largely through unsafe injecting drug use," conference organizers announced Wednesday, Agence France-Presse reports. Though the number of new cases of HIV worldwide has declined since 1996, "infection rates are continuing to rise in some parts of the world, especially Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Here, HIV prevalence has almost doubled since 2001," the AFP writes.
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Today’s OpEds: Rove On Reconciliation, An Imagined Plea From Kennedy, Vulnerable Hispanics
Kaiser Health News presents a selection of today's opinions and editorials.
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PhRMA Spends $6.3 Lobbying In Fourth Quarter, Slight Increase From Year Before
The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America spent $6.3 million lobbying Congress and other government arms on health care in the fourth quarter of 2009, The Associated Press reports.
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State Overhaul Fears, Rising Costs, Medical School Expansions
The Virginia General Assembly has approved a measure to thwart federal overhaul efforts. A pro-business group says the Massachusetts state government should step up price control efforts. A Connecticut university hopes to train more doctors.
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Survey: Employers Plan To Shift More Health Costs To Workers
News outlets report on new trends in the employer health insurance market.
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Study Questions Frequency Of Heart Angiograms
A recent study raises questions about the frequent use of heart angiograms, which show no disease in almost 40 percent of patients.
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Hospitals Cope With Losing Money
A hospital in Lousville, Kentucky is eliminating 500 jobs this month. The layoffs represent the area's first large-scale health system cuts since the recession began.
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