Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Health Care News--4.24.12

 
If health care is undecided
Politico
If America is hoping a Supreme Court ruling will end the legal uncertainty hanging over the health care system once and for all, there's a chance it could be sorely disappointed. Most legal experts are hoping the Supreme Court will give a clear thumbs ...
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Politico
If The Health Care Overhaul Goes Down, Could Medicare Follow?
NPR (blog)
by Julie Rovner A growing number of health experts are warning of potential collateral damage if the Supreme Court strikes down the entire 2010 Affordable Care Act: potential chaos in the Medicare program. "The Affordable Care Act has become part and ...
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If Supreme Court rejects Obama's health law, employers, insurers will drive ...
Washington Post
WASHINGTON — If the Supreme Court strikes down President Barack Obama's health care law, employers and insurance companies — not the government — will be the main drivers of change over the next decade and maybe even longer. They'll borrow some ...
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Report: VA failing to provide timely mental care
CBS News
WASHINGTON — Federal investigators reported Monday that nearly half of the veterans who seek mental health care for the first time waited about 50 days before receiving a full evaluation, a much longer lag-time than cited by the Department of Veterans ...
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California's working poor would lose a lot if health reform law dies
Los Angeles Times
A bill to create a federally funded Basic Health Plan for about 720000 low-income residents would go for naught if the Supreme Court tosses out the law. By David Lazarus If the healthcare reform law is thrown out by theU.S. Supreme Court — as many ...
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Romney Hints At Radical Health Care Reform Plan To Replace 'Obamacare'
TPM
Likely GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney doesn't like to talk about the key details of his own plan for reforming the country's health care system — the plan he'd push as a replacement to "Obamacare." But if you string together what he has said ...
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A States Rights Compromise on Health Care
Huffington Post (blog)
Here's an alternative approach that could meet constitutional requirements and potentially garner enough support to pass. Congress could set up two tracks for health care coverage. One would be facilitated, but not operated by, the Federal government.
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Report: VA overstates how fast it provides mental health care to veterans
Washington Post
The Department of Veterans Affairs has greatly overstated how quickly it provides mental-health care for veterans, according to an inspector general's report released Monday. Contrary to VA claims that 95 percent of first-time patients seeking ...
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Graymark Healthcare Opens Four New Facilities for Sleep Medicine Services
MarketWatch (press release)
OKLAHOMA CITY, OK, Apr 24, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Graymark Healthcare, Inc. (UTD:GRMH) , the nation's second largest provider of diagnostic sleep services and an innovator in comprehensive care for obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), ...
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Blogs
 
Telemedicine Can Cut Health Care Costs by 90% - Vijay ...
By Vijay Govindarajan
If you've not yet heard of telemedicine or think that it's not a great way to deliver quality health care, you may want to read this. Telemedicine, made possible by the availability of mobile networks, is revolutionizing health care. But not in the U.S. ...
HBR.org
Vets health care exempt from sequestration cuts - Marine Corps ...
By Staff writer
Funding for veterans' health care programs is not subject to sequestration, the White House budget office announced Monday, ending months of speculation about how across-the-board budget cuts could be applied early next year if ...
Marine Corps Times - News
Conference Highlights Rapid Growth of Health Impact Assessments ...
By Aaron Wernham
Keynote speaker Jonathan Fielding, the director of the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health who also chairs the U.S. Community Preventive Services Task Force, gave an overview of the fast-growing approach. "The first HIAs were ...
The Health Care Blog
Covington Takes Lead on Pair of Health Care Deals as Sector Stays ...
By Sara Randazzo
Covington & Burling is advising on two health care industry deals announced Monday, representing Thomson Reuters in the sale of its health care unit to a Veritas Capital affiliate for $1.25 billion in cash, and providing outside counsel to ...
The Am Law Daily
GE Touts Tech, Donates To Detroit Health Care « CBS Detroit
By Matt Roush
VAN BUREN TOWNSHIP -- The global business giant GE Monday showed off some of what it's been doing in western Wayne County since taking over part of the former Visteon Corp. headquarters in 2009.
CBS Detroit

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