Monday, April 16, 2012

Health Care News--4.15.12

 
Healthcare pricing still a struggle for consumers
Los Angeles Times
Ted Lieu (D-Torrance) is the sponsor of a bill requiring hospitals to disclose all potential healthcare charges to patients. (Rich Pedroncelli, Associated Press / September 9, 2011) By Chad Terhune, Los Angeles Times Californians are still struggling ...
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Los Angeles Times
Affordable Care Act is last chance to avoid health insurance 'death spiral ...
Wilkes Barre Times-Leader
Can Americans come to grip with the health care we expect and can afford? AS WE wait for the Supreme Court to render its verdict on health reform in June, there is an important question to ponder: Does American exceptionalism extend to health care?
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Wilkes Barre Times-Leader
Health care gains, losses hinge on court decision
Shreveport Times
Patient Hugh Carmack, left, of Shreveport, speaks with Allison Robertson at the Martin Luther King Health Center in Shreveport on Tuesday afternoon. The clinic has not been affected so far by federal health care reform but is bracing for changes if the ...
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Does the ACA really contain healthcare costs?
UPI.com
Janis Haddon of Atlanta protests against "Obama Care" in front of the Supreme Court where the justices heard a second day of arguments on the Affordable Care Act March 27 in Washington. The controversial healthcare act has drawn supporters and ...
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UPI.com
Amid Health Reform Debate, Some Indisputable Facts
Patch.com
The Affordable Care Act will help make health insurance more secure for those who already have it and make coverage available for millions of uninsured Americans. By Sen. Carl Levin Sen. Carl Levin represents Michigan in the US Senate.
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Viewpoint: Admit it, Mitt, health care's your baby
MassLive.com
By The Republican File photo by Pablo Martinez / Associated PressMIT economics professor Jonathan Gruber participates in a 2009 Capitol Hill hearing on health care. By JONATHAN GRUBER On Thursday, Massachusetts residents celebrated the sixth ...
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MassLive.com
State candidates ponder, should government be involved in health care?
Williamsport Sun-Gazette
Yaw, who voted in favor of the state amendment, is against federally mandated insurance. "We got to the point where you can force people to buy health insurance," he said. "It's part of a states rights issue. A lot of people think it is up to the ...
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Romney helps Obama blunt health care fallout
Washington Examiner
Health and Human Services Secretary Timothy Murphy as Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., looks on at Faneuil Hall in Boston after signing into law a bill designed to guarantee virtually all Massachusetts residents have health insurance in this Wednesday, ...
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Many without health insurance say they simply cannot afford it
TriCities.com
BY MEAGAN McMILLIAN As the US Supreme Court considers whether the mandate on health insurance included in the Health Care Affordability Act is constitutional, those attending the Remote Area Medical Clinic at Bristol Motor Speedway on Saturday ...
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Letters: We're talking about health care needs, not broccoli
Detroit Free Press
For example, one of the plaintiffs who claimed she didn't want health insurance reputedly subsequently required a hospital admission and filed for bankruptcy because she could not pay the bill, shifting the cost to others.
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Blogs
 
Health Care, Not Coverage | The Health Care Blog
By Carly Fiorina
For example, California's health care agency reported that it employs a full-time staff of 27300 to monitor and implement its Medicaid, financial aid and food stamp programs. At an average annual cost of $110000 per employee, California is ...
The Health Care Blog
The Massachusetts Health Care Cost Crunch « The Reality-Based ...
By Keith Humphreys
One lesson is already resoundingly clear: the growth of health care spending threatens the sustainability of every other public service, from education, to public health, to infrastructure, to defense. That's Zirui Song and Bruce Landon, writing in ...
The Reality-Based Community
Romney helps Obama blunt health care fallout | POTUS NEWS
By POTUS NEWS NET
President Obama's re-election team, in a quest to inoculate the president from his contentious health care law, is already making the case to voters that the president merely copied his reforms from the man who's running against him this fall, ...
POTUS NEWS
Healthcare: For Profit Or For All? Or "How My Insurance Company ...
By Matthew Desmond
I've been told the best way to write is to write about what you know. I'm not an expert in healthcare by any stretch of the imagination, but I do know that for-profit healthcare cost me two children and almost my wife. That's a pretty good place to ...
Addicting Info
Daily Kos: Health Care Act compromise
By rss@dailykos.com (ceratotherium)
If you don't buy insurance you can't get medical care. If you opt not to have coverage, we can opt not to treat you. So if you are certain you won't get sick or injured, need vaccination, get pregnant, or otherwise use the services of US health care ...
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