Saturday, April 14, 2012

Health Care News--4.12.12

 
As Supreme Court weighs health care reform, contractors await their fate
Washington Post
The Public Consulting Group likens its work in implementing states' health insurance exchanges to helping a city set up a farmer's market for the first time: Local officials may want to provide urban dwellers with access to fresh produce, ...
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Obama campaign salutes anniversary of Romney's health care law
CNN (blog)
(CNN) - Maybe you've heard the president's top aides call Mitt Romney the "godfather" of the Obama health care law? Now the Obama campaign is out with a web video that drives home the message. "I helped Gov. Romney develop his health care reform or ...
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Health care providers seek to lower costs through new program
New Bern Sun Journal
New Bern has two health organizations that have been selected to be part of 27 accountable care organizations (ACO), a multifaceted new program sponsored by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Coastal Carolina Health Care and Accountable ...
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Romney's health care law gets awkward birthday party
Politico
Deval Patrick marked the state's landmark health care reform law Wednesday with a ceremony at Faneuil Hall — the same place where Mitt Romney signed the bill almost six years ago, long before the state's reform became the model for the federal reform ...
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Politico
Faust Visits the Insurance Lobby
Wall Street Journal
Liberals are still reeling from the Supreme Court's oral arguments on ObamaCare, but they've got nothing on the health-care industry. Most of its biggest players backed the White House because they figured the individual mandate to buy insurance would ...
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Obama promotes health care plan -- using Romney
USA TODAY (blog)
By David Jackson, USA TODAY President Obama's re-election team is tweaking Republican opponent Mitt Romney over the sixth-year anniversary of the Massachusetts health care plan, which they call a model for the president's plan now under attack by the ...
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USA TODAY (blog)
Why Healthcare Cost Reports Fail Consumers
InformationWeek
Healthcare cost reports are doing little to help consumers pick quality providers or save money, for themselves or the healthcare system at large, expert says. By Neil Versel InformationWeek Unfortunately, far too many people equate more care and ...
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State and UI experts discuss healthcare reform
UI The Daily Iowan
BY ASMAA ELKEURTI | APRIL 12, 2012 6:30 AM Mariannette Miller-Meeks, the director of the Iowa Department of Public Health, said one of the main concerns in the debate over health-care reform was the expense of implementing policies, in addition to the ...
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If the Health Care Mandate Is Struck Down, Single-Payer Becomes the Best Choice
Huffington Post
What happens if the Supreme Court strikes down the "individual mandate" in the health care reform law? Commentators ranging from former Labor Secretary Robert Reich to Forbes Magazine columnist Rick Ungar agree: Such a decision could open the door to ...
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Report: Tenn. could lose $73M over 10 years health care reform repealed
Knoxville News Sentinel
The nonprofit consumer health care advocacy/lobbying organization on Tuesday released the report, which broke down state-by-state the impact of the proposal by House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wisc. The report said the proposal, ...
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Blogs
 
Investing in America's Health Care Workforce | The White House
By Jon Carson
Health Care reform funding creates the opportunity for an increased presence of practicing primary care professionals in communities across the country.
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FACT SHEET: Creating Health Care Jobs by Addressing Primary ...
By The White House
Together, the Affordable Care Act, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Recovery Act), and ongoing federal investments in the health care workforce have led to significant progress in training new primary care providers ...
White House.gov Press Office Feed
Ross Guberman critiques the government's health care brief ...
By Kali Borkoski
Below, Ross answers a few questions about the briefing on both sides of the health care cases. What do you see as the biggest challenges that the federal government faced in crafting this brief, and what techniques it use particularly well to ...
SCOTUSblog
CARPE DIEM: Free Health Care at Sam's Club
By Mark J. Perry
Sam's Club -- "To help communities get smart about brain health, Sam's Club is providing free health screenings at all Sam's Club locations with a pharmacy, Saturday, April 14 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. for members and the public. The free brain ...
CARPE DIEM
Rusckowski out, DiSanzo in at Philips Healthcare | MassDevice ...
By MassDevice staff
Deborah DiSanzo is the new CEO of Philips Healthcare as Steve Rusckowski departs to take the corner office at Quest Diagnostics.
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Web
 
Study: Obama's health care law would raise deficit - Yahoo! News
From Yahoo! News: Reigniting a debate about the bottom line for President Barack Obama's health care law, a leading conservative economist estimates in a ...
news.yahoo.com/study-obamas-health-care-law-raise-deficit-0...
Obama healthcare could worsen U.S. debt: Republican study | Reuters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Instead of curbing government spending, President Barack Obama's healthcare law could add up to $530 billion to the federal debt ...
www.reuters.com/.../us-usa-healthcare-budget-idUSBRE83905...

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