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Big-Name Drugs Are Falling Off The ‘Patent Cliff’

By Fred Mogul, WNYC October 24, 2011 KFF Health News Original

Patents expired and Medicare beneficiaries turned to generics, saving Medicare billions of dollars.

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When ‘Critical Access’ Hospitals Are Not So Critical

By Jenny Gold December 8, 2011 KFF Health News Original

A Medicare program intended to preserve “critical access” to rural hospitals may have grown beyond that goal, possibly keeping open hospitals that should close.

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Seniors Get a Break On Medicare Part B Premiums

By Mary Agnes Carey October 27, 2011 KFF Health News Original

KHN staff writer Mary Agnes Carey reports that most beneficiaries face only a small boost in their monthly premiums next year, and some will enjoy decreases, Obama administration officials announced.

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Housing Bust Derails Some Seniors’ Assisted-Living Care

By Harris Meyer August 21, 2011 KFF Health News Original

With the real estate market depressed, thousands of seniors are unable to move because they can’t sell their homes.

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Number Of Malaria Cases In Brazilian Amazon Drop 31% In First Half Of Year Compared With 2010

September 6, 2011 Morning Briefing

Brazil’s health ministry on Monday said 115,708 malaria cases had been reported in the first half of this year in the Brazilian Amazon, down 31 percent compared with the same period in 2010, the Latin American Herald Tribune reports. “‘The positive figures are the result of comprehensive action, which includes stepping up the routines for early diagnosis and the opportune treatment of patients,’ Health Minister Alexandre Padilha said,” the newspaper writes.

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Some Seniors Are In For Sticker Shock On Drug Premiums

By Mary Agnes Carey February 11, 2011 KFF Health News Original

Starting this year, affluent Medicare beneficiaries will begin paying more than the standard premium for their Part D coverage.

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Nine Ways The New Health Law May Affect You in 2011

By KFF Health News Staff January 3, 2011 KFF Health News Original

In 2011 many new provisions of the health law kick in, providing benefits for many and potential new costs for some others.

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Justice Increases Efforts To Enforce Olmstead Ruling

By Joseph Shapiro, NPR News December 5, 2010 KFF Health News Original

Thomas Perez, assistant attorney general for civil rights at the U.S. Department of Justice, is making a “paradigm shift” in his division to focus more on care-at-home cases.

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Health Care — Tell Us The Truth Before You Tell Us Why You Are Right

By Robert Laszewski November 16, 2010 KFF Health News Original

We need more proposals like those being made by the President’s deficit reduction commission, and the Medicare reform proposal authored by Republican House members Ryan, Cantor, and McCarthy. Irrespective of whether they are the best proposals, their authors started from a place where they told the truth.

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From Florida To Oregon, Medicare Advantage’s Benefits

By David Gulliver August 6, 2010 KFF Health News Original

For the 11 million people signed up for private Medicare Advantage plans, their future with the popular program that has been designated for cuts in federal funding may depend on where they live.

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What The New Health Law Means For You

By Phil Galewitz June 2, 2010 KFF Health News Original

The law will extend health insurance to 32 million currently uninsured Americans by 2019, and will also have an impact on how nearly every American buys insurance and what insurance must cover.

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Week In Review: Politics Of Health Reform Implementation, Insurance Mandate, More CBO Estimates

By Stephanie Stapleton, KFF Health News Staff Editor May 14, 2010 KFF Health News Original

This week featured more legal and political challenges to the new health law as the Obama adminstration issued rules to extend insurance coverage to young adults on their parents’ plans.

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Will Private Long-Term Care Insurance Supplement the CLASS Act?

By Howard Gleckman April 22, 2010 KFF Health News Original

CLASS takes a step towards moving long-term care financing from the welfare-like Medicaid program to an insurance-based system. But CLASS alone won’t get there. Private insurance, currently a niche product that covers only about seven million Americans, will have to play an important role as well.

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CBO Raises Cost Estimate For Health Law, Sparking Political Reaction

May 12, 2010 Morning Briefing

The Congressional Budget Office said the new health law could cost $115 billion more than originally projected over 10 years.

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House Rules Committee’s Analysis Of The Health Bill

March 18, 2010 KFF Health News Original

The House Rules Committee released this “section-by-section analysis” of the Democrats’ health bill, The Health Care & Education Affordability Reconciliation Act of 2010.

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Fear of Flu: Shifting the Goalposts

By Shannon Brownlee and Jeanne Lenzer November 17, 2009 KFF Health News Original

Are fears about kids and the swine flu overblown?

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Democrats Target Federal Subsidies for Medicare’s Private Plans

By Phil Galewitz September 9, 2009 KFF Health News Original

Part of the effort to cut health spending aims at Medicare Advantage programs, which often offer benefits that go beyond traditional Medicare. But Obama says they are unfair and inefficient.

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How Congress Might Tax Your Health Benefits

By Julie Appleby June 8, 2009 KFF Health News Original

Lawmakers are considering varied approaches to taxing employer-provided health insurance as a means of paying for an overhaul of the health system, Kaiser Health News reports. Proposals include taxing benefits above a certain premium amount, taxing the benefits only of high-income earners, or combining both approaches.

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Hot-Button Health Issue: Is Medicaid or Private Insurance Better for the Poor Uninsured?

By Mary Agnes Carey July 1, 2009 KFF Health News Original

Medicaid’s role in health reform is emerging as a flash point, exposing policy and political rifts not only between the two parties but also among Democrats themselves.

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Massachusetts Cuts Health Coverage By $115 Million

June 25, 2009 Morning Briefing

“Overseers of Massachusetts’ trailblazing health care program made their first cuts yesterday, trimming $115 million, or 12 percent, from Commonwealth Care, which subsidizes premiums for needy residents and is the centerpiece of the 2006 law,” according to the Boston Globe.

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