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Birth Control Without Copays Could Become Mandatory
Is birth control part of preventive care for women? That's the question before an independent panel of experts. And their decision could force insurance companies to fully cover the cost of the pill and other prescription contraceptives
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Opinion Column
Washington’s Rebate Tax Would Be Paid By Seniors (Guest Column)
Some Democrats are backing a "tax" on prescription drugs that would increase Medicare drug plan premiums by as much as 40 percent. Those lawmaker wouldn't describe their plan that way, of course, but that would be the effect of their plat to require drug companies to pay Medicaid-style rebates to Medicare.
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Doctors In Small Practices Slow To Dump Paper Records
Despite carrots and sticks from the federal government, some physicians are leery about moving to electronic health records.
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At Age 46, Is Medicare Ripe For A Change?
Seven experts explore what it would take to muster the political will to revamp the popular health care program.
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Health Care Recommendations From Previous Bipartisan Deficit-Reduction Groups: Document
The debt-ceiling agreement calls for a bipartisan "super committee." This is not the first effort to find a bipartisan agreement on reducing the federal deficit; here is a guide to the health-care recommendations from four groups.
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FAQ: ‘Super Committee’ Could Have Big Impact On Medicare, Medicaid Spending
A guide to how the congressional "super" committee's deliberations could influence Medicare and Medicaid.
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Growing Hospice Care Costs Bring Concerns About Misuse
Although the benefit is intended for patients who have no more than six months to live, 19 percent now receive hospice services for longer.
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Medicaid’s Moment (Guest Opinion)
While Democrats are effusive in their praise of Medicare, their silence in response to public attacks on Medicaid has been deafening. All the more important, then, is the study released this month by the National Bureau of Economic Research. It makes the job even easier.
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Opinion Column
As The CLASS Act Comes Under Fire, The British Propose A New Model for National Long-Term Care Insurance (Guest Opinion)
Since the 1990s, nearly every developed country on the planet has reformed the way it finances long-term care for the frail elderly and adults with disabilities. Among the handful of exceptions: The U.S. and the United Kingdom.
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Opinion Column
Are You Better Off With Medicaid Than No Insurance? A Landmark Study Says Yes (Guest Opinion)
Conservative critics of Medicaid argue that the program doesn't actually help beneficiaries. A new study offers empiracle evidence to the contrary.
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Medicare Payment Board Draws Brickbats
The health care overhaul law calls for an independent board to make recommendations for ways to reduce Medicare payments without cutting benefits or increasing costs to beneficiaries. But Congressmen from both sides of the aisle are growing doubtful that such a board will work.
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Obama Plan To Cut Pediatric Training Draws Protests
Administration's budget proposal would end a 12-year program that funds residencies at children's hospitals.
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Health Law Expands Medicare To Montana Asbestos Patients
The provision could help cover the hundreds of people diagnosed with the condition, but Republican efforts to repeal the law raise concerns for patients.
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Health On The Hill Transcript: Obama Tries To Aid Deficit Talks With Meetings
KHN's Mary Agnes Carey talks with Jackie Judd about President Obama's separate meetings with Senate leaders Mitch McConnell and Harry Reid in which the trio is trying to find common ground on Medicare cuts to help lower the deficit.
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Medicaid Makes ‘Big Difference’ In Lives, Study Finds
But a new study - the first of its kind in nearly four decades - finds that Medicaid is making a bigger impact than even some of its supporters may have realized.