Sunday, April 15, 2012

Health Care News--4.14.12

 
Is the Healthcare Mandate a Tax?
Huffington Post (blog)
People who get health insurance through their employer under national health reform will lose over $6000 in wages annually -- but that is actually a good thing. It means we can extend health insurance to many of the 50 million uninsured in the US ...
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Would Romney roll back expansion of health insurance for children?
Washington Post (blog)
Most of them are in the Affordable Care Act, and haven't been implemented yet. The main tax increase the Romney camp cited, which is in fact in effect right now, was this one: The one, non-health-care-related, broad-based tax on Romney's list is a ...
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Fate of health law's Medicaid expansion hinges on how much doctors get paid
The Hill (blog)
By Julian Pecquet - 04/14/12 06:20 AM ET The success of the healthcare reform law's massive Medicaid expansion could hinge on new regulations that are expected as early as next week. While the 20 million people who will gain subsidized coverage on the ...
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Graying America gets wired to cut healthcare costs
Reuters
Other ideas are simpler and already are being tested by governments and private health insurers. Marilyn Yeats, 79, is suffering from congestive heart failure and uses a personal healthcare computer, called the Guide, provided by the health insurer ...
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Guess What State Will See Lower Health Insurance Premiums This Year?
Forbes
Don't look now, Governor Romney, but you may need to execute yet another of your famous flip-flops when it comes to Obamacare, the federal law modeled on your own Massachusetts experiment. participating in the state's Health Connector Commonwealth Care ...
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Health-care law preoccupies doctors at TN Medical Association convention
The Tennessean
Dr. Michael Minch, the TMA's outgoing president, said some doctors are delaying hiring more staff partly because of uncertainty over health-care reform and the threat of more Medicare cuts. "For employers, you don't know what costs for insurance will ...
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Perceptions of cancer care may not match reality
Reuters
Patient perceptions are increasingly important to hospitals and other healthcare providers that find their payments from insurers and the government tied to performance and patient evaluations. To see what influences a woman's perception of her care, ...
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ACOs led by doctors seek to manage costs, quality and hospital relationships
ModernHealthcare.com
That's in contrast to early participants in different programs, announced late last year, which included prominent health systems and major medical groups such as Geisinger Health System and Monarch HealthCare. Leaders at ACOs owned and operated solely ...
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Blogs
 
The Biggest Healthcare Interop Issue: Frozen Interface Syndrome
By Wes Rishel
Wes Rishel is a vice president and distinguished analyst in Gartner's healthcare provider research practice. He covers electronic medical records, interoperability, health information exchanges and the underlying technologies of healthcare IT, ...
Wes Rishel
Bending The Health Care Cost Curve: More Than Meets The Eye ...
By Kenneth Kaufman
During the past months, a number of important articles have appeared in the healthcare literature on the subject of the recent slowing of health-spending growth in the U.S. In an article in January's Health Affairs, economists at the Centers for ...
Health Affairs Blog
Did the Constitution's framers favor a health care mandate? | MinnPost
By Eric Black
In The New Republic, Harvard Law Professor Einer Elhauge writes that -- contrary to those arguing for the unconstitutionality of the Affordable Care Act -- the historical evidence shows that many of those who participated in the framing of the ...
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Young physicians pessimistic about US health care system under ...
By Cardigan
These physicians are markedly pessimistic regarding the future of the U.S. healthcare system, with the "new healthcare legislation" ranking as a strong #1 reason for the pessimism. Many voice considerable cynicism with (what several call) ...
iOwnTheWorld.com
#Occupy Obamacare PAC Attacks Health Care Plan In Bizarre ...
By Doc Holiday
Last week, Glenn Morton, a 41-year-old health insurance broker and failed congressional candidate who lives in a Maryland suburb of Washington, D.C., launched a low-budget super PAC called "Occupy Obamacare." The group's nascent ...
Pat Dollard

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