Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Health Care News--4.23.12

 
Romney's healthcare plan may be more revolutionary than Obama's
Los Angeles Times
Republican candidate Mitt Romney says he would dump President Obama's healthcare overhaul and replace it with something else. Early outlines suggest it would dramatically change the way millions of Americans get health insurance and could leave many ...
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Los Angeles Times
Tester discusses healthcare issues with rual veterans
Great Falls Tribune
BILLINGS — The Department of Veterans Affairs needs to do a better job communicating with private medical providers, informing veterans of what services are available, and pay more attention to women's health care needs as more women have been joining ...
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GAO Calls Test Project by Medicare Costly Waste
New York Times
WASHINGTON — Medicare is wasting more than $8 billion on an experimental program that rewards providers of mediocre health care and is unlikely to produce useful results, federal investigators say in a new report. The report, to be issued Monday by ...
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Healthways Acquires Ascentia Health Care Solutions
MarketWatch (press release)
NASHVILLE, Tenn., Apr 23, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Ben R. Leedle, Jr., president and chief executive officer of Healthways (NASDAQ:HWAY) , announced that the Company has acquired Ascentia Health Care Solutions, a Philadelphia area based company whose ...
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Romney's health care plan may be more revolutionary than Obama's
The Republic
By Noam N. Levey Tribune Washington Bureau WASHINGTON — As he pushes to "repeal and replace" President Barack Obama's health care law, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has turned to proposals that could alter the way hundreds of millions of ...
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Government says Medicare will save $200 billion through 2016
USA TODAY
By Kelly Kennedy, USA TODAY WASHINGTON – The government plans to announce today that the 2010 health care law will save Medicare beneficiaries $208 billion through 2020, and save Medicare itself $200 billion through 2016, based on a Centers for ...
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USA TODAY
Auditors call for end to Medicare bonus program
BusinessWeek
Medicare Advantage is a popular private insurance alternative to the traditional health care program for seniors. More than 3000 private plans serve nearly 12 million beneficiaries, about one-fourth of Medicare recipients.
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Republicans Prepare Should Supreme Court Overturn Healthcare Plan
Insurance Journal
By David Morgan | April 23, 2012 Republicans in Congress are getting ready to answer an election-year question that has dogged the party's campaign for months: How would it replace President Barack Obama's healthcare law if the measure is overturned or ...
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Romney would cut health care, add to defense
Sentinel and Enterprise
By Andrew Taylor, AP WASHINGTON (AP) -- Reducing government deficits Mitt Romney's way would mean less money for health care for the poor and disabled and big cuts to nuts-and-bolts functions such as food inspection, border security and education.
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Blogs
 
Health care law's effect may exceed expectations | The Miami ...
By Christopher Ivory
Conversely, proponents believe the act will adequately live up to its intended purposes: extending health care to uninsured individuals at an affordable price, reduce the cost of health insurance, and prevent insurers from denying coverage to ...
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Festival of Books: Steve Lopez, healthcare panelists on end-of-life ...
By maryforgione
The panel, one of the last at this year's Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, was about the uncomfortable subject of death –- and, even so, it drew a lively and clearly appreciative crowd of several hundred to a USC...
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A (Real) Tragedy at the CDC | The Health Care Blog
At the recent Health Care Quality Summit, Sarah Patterson, the Virgina Mason Medical Center expert on Lean process improvement, noted, "I'd rather have no board rather than an out-of-date board. They have to be real." She was referring to ...
The Health Care Blog

Web
 
Robert E. Litan: Ending Health Care Pinball
If even a fraction of America's 300 million patients turned into entrepreneurial patients -- making informed decisions, sharing in productivity gains, and taking ...
www.huffingtonpost.com/.../ending-health-care-pinbal_b_143...

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