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Money, Medicine and Myths
I was on a phone call with fellow health policy types back during the presidential primary season when the conversation turned to pay-for-performance.
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Washington State Takes a Hard Look at New Treatments and Tests
A Washington state program decides whether to cover new treatments and tests by comparing them with the standard alternatives. If there's no real difference, a panel of medical professionals can pick the least expensive. Decisions are binding for employees insured by the state, workers' compensation claimants and patients in Medicaid, the state-federal program for the poor.
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Insurers Apply Different Methods In Making Coverage Decisions
Public and private insurance plans say they evaluate medical services for coverage by looking at published scientific research, rating the evidence and making comparisons based on effectiveness and safety. But their approaches vary widely in terms of transparency, comprehensiveness in reviewing evidence, openness to outside suggestions and explicit consideration of cost.
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Checking In With Gail Wilensky: Her Priorities For Comparative-Effectiveness Research
A new federal effort to compare medical treatments head-to-head could help physicians, patients, and even insurers figure out how to choose the best therapies for their health care dollars. Veteran health policy economist and GOP adviser Gail Wilensky weighs in.
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The Players – Sen. Olympia Snowe, R-Maine
The Maine senator, a moderate Republican on the Finance Committee, is in an influential position as the only GOP member so far to vote for reform. She doesn't want a government-sponsored public plan to compete with private insurers but may support it as a fallback option if the private sector doesn't perform adequately.
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Letter From Obama to Sens. Kennedy and Baucus
President Obama sent this letter to Senators Edward Kennedy and Max Baucus regarding health reform.
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Sen. Baucus Tells Single-Payer Advocates He Regrets There Wasn’t More Discussion Of Single-Payer Plan
Sen. Max Baucus told single-payer advocates Wednesday that he regrets not allowing more discussion of the single-payer plan in attempts at health care reform, but that it's too far along in the process to consider it now.
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A Consumer’s Guide to Health Care Reform
How Congress decides several important issues could affect how millions of Americans get and pay for insurance and medical care.
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Daschle Gives Health Reform 50-50 Chance Of Passing
The man originally designated to run President Obama's health reform effort debated President Bush's HHS Secretary Michael Leavitt about possible overhaul legislation.
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Transcript of President Obama’s Remarks On Health Reform
President Barack Obama urges reform of the U.S. health care system in a meeting at the White House with Senate Democrats.
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Checking In With…Charles Grassley, R-Iowa
The ranking member of the Finance Committee says reform won't get done "if this is not bipartisan."
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Some Doctors Cut Deals With Struggling Patients
Doctors across the country are reducing their charges and offering payment plans to patients who have lost health insurance or income. This helps people stay well, but it also helps doctors maintain their practices at a time when many financially struggling Americans are deferring care. Patients who don't pay their bills still run the risk of hearing from bill collectors.
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Checking In With… Nancy-Ann DeParle: A Health Reform Bill “By Thanksgiving”
The new head of the White House Office of Health Reform predicts there will be a health care reform bill on President Obama's desk by Thanksgiving.
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Big, Small or Nothing At All? Three Scenarios For Health Reform
With the health care debate about to erupt on Capitol Hill, a look at three ways it could turn out.
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NJ Hospital Fight Foreshadows Health Reform Challenges
A battle over whether to build a new hospital in northeastern New Jersey illustrates the formidable obstacles confronting President Obama and Congress as they try to mine savings from the $2.5 trillion health care system.
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The Cost of Cancer
This documentary explores the severe challenges cancer patients can face in paying for their health care even when they have private health insurance.
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Family Budgets and Health Care: One Couple’s Story
Sixty-year-old Ron Gaston was a shipping and receiving clerk in Wichita, Kansas, who earned about $30,000 a year.
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