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- Study: Health Overhaul's Tax Credit For Small Business Could Affect Millions
- Egg Recall, Drug Approval Time Raise Questions About FDA Resources
- Two Scientists Behind Suit To Block Stem-Cell Research Funding Speak With Lawmakers
- Democrats Will Likely Push Again For Ground Zero Health Assistance
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- Kathleen Sebelius and David Durenburger on How the ACA Will Improve Health Care DeliveryOn the Commonwealth Fund Blog, HHS Sec. Kathleen Sebelius discusses how the health reform law will help ensure coordinated and patient-centered health care delivery, and Senator David Durenberger explains why he's optimistic about the law's implementation.
- Health Care Opinion Leaders' Views on Delivery System Innovation and ImprovementNearly nine of 10 leaders in health care and health care policy believe current financial interests and lack of incentives for integration are barriers to the growth of accountable care systems, according to the latest Health Care Opinion leaders survey. Also see blog posts by HHS Sec. Kathleen Sebelius and former U.S. Senator David Durenberger.
- The Commonwealth Fund/Modern Healthcare Health Care Opinion Leaders Survey: Views on Delivery System Innovation and ImprovementNearly nine of 10 leaders in health care and health care policy believe current financial interests and lack of incentives for integration are significant barriers to the growth of accountable care systems.
- Experts Believe Lack of Incentives and Financial Interests Are Barriers to Integrated and Accountable CareNearly nine of 10 leaders in health care and health care policy think that the lack of incentives and current financial interests of providers and other stakeholders are barriers to moving health care toward more integrated and accountable delivery models.
- The Triple Aim Journey: Improving Population Health and Patients' Experience of Care, While Reducing CostsThese three case studies of organizations participating in the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's Triple Aim initiative shed light on how partnering with providers and organizing care can improve the health of a population and patients' experience while lowering—or at least reducing the rate of increase in—the per capita cost of care.
- Kathleen Sebelius and David Durenburger on How the ACA Will Improve Health Care Delivery
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- 'Recession Effect' Hits Spending on HealthHealth care spending this year has grown at its slowest rate in a half-century, a sign that people are forgoing medical care during the recession, a USA Today analysis of government data finds.
- Health Insurance Tax Credit Likely to Affect Small Part of Small-Business WorkforceAbout 16.6 million workers are employed by small businesses that are eligible for health insurance tax credits under the new health-care law, according to estimates that were to be released by a nonpartisan research foundation Thursday.
- Health Care 'No' Hurts Minnesota"All executive branch departments and agencies are directed that no application shall be submitted to the federal government in connection with requests for grant funding for programs and demonstration projects deriving from the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act ... unless otherwise required by law, or approved by the office of the governor. […]
- The Ugly Truth Behind America’s Objection To Health Care ReformAs we head into the November elections, much is being made of the failing support for health care reform.
- Medicare Drug Premiums to Remain Stable in 2011Average monthly premiums for seniors enrolled in the Medicare drug benefit will increase by only $1 in 2011, bringing the total average premium to $30, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced Aug. 18.
- 'Recession Effect' Hits Spending on Health
- NY Times Health Policy
- Sanofi’s Bid Puts Pressure on GenzymeThe French drug maker Sanofi-Aventis disclosed its $18.5 billion bid for the American biotechnology firm Genzyme.
- Employers Push Costs for Health on WorkersEmployers passed all of the increases in insurance premiums this year to their employees, a survey found.
- Deal Would Provide Dialysis to Illegal Immigrants in AtlantaThe deal, if completed, would end a yearlong impasse that has come to symbolize the health care plight of the country’s uninsured immigrants and the hospitals that end up caring for them.
- Stem Cell Ruling Will Be AppealedThe head of the National Institutes of Health said a judge’s decision would most likely force the cancellation of dozens of experiments in diseases ranging from diabetes to Parkinson’s.
- U.S. Rejected Hen Vaccine Despite British SuccessBritish farmers virtually wiped out salmonella in eggs, but American regulators decided against a mandate.
- Sanofi’s Bid Puts Pressure on Genzyme
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- Employers shifting health-care costs to workers, survey shows Amid high unemployment and a weak economy, employers have been shifting health care costs to workers, according to a study released Thursday. Health care - United States - Health care reform - Insurance - Politics
- Inspectors find unsanitary conditions at egg farms Federal investigators found piles of manure up to eight feet tall, live mice, pigeons and other birds inside the hen houses at two egg farms suspected of causing a nationwide outbreak of salmonella illness, officials said Monday. Business - Poultry - Meat and Seafood - Food and Related Products - Associations
- New workout programs show that pools can attract exercisers of all ages Sean Stephens hasn't told his friends he does water aerobics. "I guess until now," the 36-year-old joked last week as we wiggled into the pool at LivingWell, the health club at the Washington Hilton. United States - Recreation - Camps - Day - Health
- Physicians use photos from patients' cellphones to deliver 'mobile health' In May, an emergency physician at George Washington University Hospital began a six-month study examining how accurately emergency doctors and physician assistants could diagnose wounds from patient-generated cellphone images. Medicine - Health - Mobile - Facilities - Health Systems
- Be skeptical of health-care credit cards These days, you may leave your dentist's office with more than a toothbrush and dental floss in your bag. Thousands of dentists are offering patients health-care credit cards to cover the work that needs to be done, with seemingly hard-to-resist repayment terms. If you need care and don't have in... Credit card - United States - Business - C […]
- Employers shifting health-care costs to workers, survey shows
- Boston Globe Health Blog
- Time to tighten rules on tanning beds, skin doctors sayIt's hard to fathom, but tanning beds are in the same medical device category as tongue depressors, according to US regulators, while the World Heath Organization classifies them as carcinogens. But the US Food and Drug Administration is poised...
- Today's GlobeMassachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley said yesterday that the board of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center should do “some soul-searching’’ about chief executive Paul Levy’s ability to continue leading the hospital, after her office concluded that his longtime personal...
- AG concludes review of Levy caseThe Massachusetts Attorney General's Office said today that a personal relationship between Paul Levy, chief executive of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and a female employee "clearly endangered the reputation of the institution and its management," and it found that "his continued, repeated and acknowledged failure to appreciate a […]
- Drinking story comes with a cautionary chaserDid you lift a glass to toast the new study on moderate drinkers outliving teetotalers? Hold that thought before you pour yourself another one. Although the study fits in with a large body of research linking a few drinks...
- MassHealth may be losing money on imaging, auditor saysMassachusetts' Medicaid program could be losing millions of dollars on potentially unnecessary imaging tests and by paying more than Medicare, according to a report released by the state auditor today. Auditor Joseph DeNucci said dramatic increases in the use...
- Time to tighten rules on tanning beds, skin doctors say
- LA Times Health Blog
- Health Affairs Blog
- Firms Shifting Burden To Workers For Family CoverageWorkers on average are paying nearly $4,000 this year toward the cost of family health coverage — an increase of 14 percent, or $482, above what they paid last year, according to the benchmark 2010 Employer Health Benefits Survey released today by the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Health Research & Educational Trust (HRET). Selected [...]
- The Latest Health Wonk ReviewHenry Stern at InsureBlog hosts the latest edition of the Health Wonk Review. As always, the Review highlights many interesting posts. Among them: “New Ideas In Medicare Financing,” a Health Affairs Blog post by Michael O’Grady and Jennifer Young. Copyright © 2010 Health Affairs Blog. This Feed is for personal non-commercial use only. All […]
- New Ideas In Medicaid FinancingThe Medicaid program is facing major new challenges. The new health care law puts both significant new responsibilities and financial burdens on the program. At the same time, Medicaid, as one of the three major federal entitlement programs, is a top priority for policy makers trying to address the federal government’s staggering budget deficits. Unf […]
- Health Affairs Briefing: Medical Liability And ER UseThe September 2010 issue of Health Affairs is devoted to two issues that arguably were insufficiently addressed by the Affordable Care Act: medical liability and patient safety; and the growing nonemergency use of the nation’s hospital emergency rooms. The issue contains new estimates of how much medical liability costs the health care system overall; of […]
- Robert Butler’s LegacyEditor’s note: Earlier this summer, on July 7, Robert Butler died of leukemia. Butler was the founding director of the National Institute on Aging, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, and one of the nation’s leading authorities on aging and geriatrics. With the essay below by Christine Cassel, president and CEO of the American Board of Internal Me […]
- Firms Shifting Burden To Workers For Family Coverage
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The money these people (insurance co. CEOs) take is outrageous, unethical, immoral, and (directed to the self-righteous, religious far right republicans) unChristian. Having studied “Risk and Insurance,” the basic principle of insurance is to spread the risk among the INSURED, — not to make a handful of greedy SOB’s despicably rich! Granted someone has to manage the ‘group,’ but these CEO’s don’t manage anything. They just dictate ‘policy’ designed to line their wallets. In fact I’d really like to know what these people actually do! I’m convinced that if they died overnight, the company would go on just fine without them. How do they justify such inequitable compensation???