Health Care Expands For Ex-Offenders In California
The health overhaul law is spurring a major expansion of programs that will benefit ex-offenders and other indigent people in California beginning this summer.
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Health Programs On The Chopping Block As States Gird For Drop In Federal Aid
Hundreds of thousands of Americans are at risk of losing access to health services as states prepare to make yet another round of budget cuts.
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Hospitals Try New Approaches To Curb Emergency Department Crowding
Officials are shaking up procedures with some hospitals abandoning traditional ER beds and cubicles, shifting patients more quickly to medical units and taking over underused hospital space.
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Assessing The Needs Of Disabled Medicare Beneficiaries
To provide better services, government officials need more concrete information about the needs of the disabled community, White House adviser says.
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Week In Review: Berwick Nomination Still Drawing Fire; Regulations For Health IT And Preventive Care; A New AIDS Policy; New PhRMA Chief
This week, news outlets covered the Obama administration as it began implementing parts of the new health law and also unveiled a national HIV/AIDS strategy. And, Capitol Hill is still reacting to the president's recess appointment of Dr. Donald Berwick to head the agency overseeing Medicare and Medicaid.
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In Dialysis, Life-Saving Care at Great Risk and Cost
An untold number of dialysis patients are injured or die as a result of needle dislodgements, but Medicare rules don't require clinics to report such adverse incidents to outside authorities.
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Federal Task Force On Preventive Care Faces New Challenge Under Health Law
Panel's recommendations on preventive care will determine which services are covered fully by insurance. That could make it a political lightning rod for lobbyists and disease advocates and conflict with its tradition of scholarly dedication to the science of randomized medical trials.
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A Timeline of Kennedy’s Health Care Achievements And Disappointments
Over more than half a century of working on health legislation, Edward Kennedy scored many victories, missed some opportunities and never realized his dream of universal health care.
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Analysis: Anti-Smoking Program Extinguished in New Jersey
Gov. Chris Christie is cutting services and New Jersey's anti-smoking program in order to reduce the deficit. Other states are feeling the pinch as well.
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Developing Nations: Laboratories For Health Care Innovation
Without big budgets, developing nations have to be creative and flexible when it comes to health care. As a result, some interesting new technologies and techniques have emerged that Westernized countries have adopted.
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Despite Federal Help, States Struggle To Move People Out Of Nursing Homes
A program, known as "Money Follows the Person," aims to help elderly and disabled people in nursing homes live on their own and save tens of millions of dollars for Medicaid. But many states are having trouble finding affordable housing, and fewer than 6,000 people have moved. The goal is 37,000 by 2013.
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Injury Upon Injury: Californians Losing Jobs Find State Health Safety Net Is Badly Frayed
With the pressure of a severe budget crisis, California officials have made tough cuts to health services once deemed vital. Funds for dental clinics, foot and eye care, hearing aids, mental health care and other services long covered under the state's Medicaid program have been slashed.
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Dr. House’s Prescription: More Medicine Is Better
Despite TV portrayals of best medicine, health reform proponents says patients could get good treatment -- and cheaper care -- if high tech tests were used more judiciously.
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Obama’s Speech: A Sampling Of Reactions From Consumers
KHN interviewed several Americans about their reactions to the president's speech: Was it persuasive? How would the proposals he outlined affect you and your family?
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For Dying and Seriously Ill Children, Hope For Better Care
When 14 year old Prince Jackson was diagnosed with a brain tumor, he was caught in a gray zone: public and private insurance doesn't usually cover the palliative care he desperately needed. But his mother got help from a new program that provides services for seriously ill or dying children.
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Opinion Column
Medical Imaging: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
In its current state, diagnostic imaging can be seen as "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly". Congress must separate healthy and unhealthy growth
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A Market ‘Fundamentally Changed’: How Health Proposals Could Affect Americans Who Buy Their Own Insurance
New rules being debated by Congress could mean consumers couldn't be rejected because they have health problems and would include subsidies for lower-income people to buy insurance. But the rules won't solve all the problems faced by those who don't get insurance through their jobs.
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Opinion Column
Reading the Fine Print on Health Reform: Encouraging News For Public Health
Partisan health reform fights have focused on a handful of concerns: the proposed public health insurance plan, individual and employer mandates, financing measures to subsidize low-income Americans and to cover the uninsured. As a combatant in some of these fights, I'm not one to say the partisan conflict is misplaced.
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New College Grads Scramble For Insurance In Faltering Economy
Young adults who are ousted from their parents' health plans are among the largest and fastest-growing groups of uninsured.