Health Care News--4.18.12

Spain seeks health care cuts as crisis deepens Reuters The estimated savings - 3 billion euros a year in state schools and 7 billion euros in the health service - are set to be approved at the government's weekly meeting on Friday. Spain has returned to centre of the euro zone debt crisis in the past few ... See all stories on this topic »

Community health centers under pressure to improve care USA TODAY By Mikki K Harris, for USA TODAY The Oakhurst Medical Centers' Stone Mountain location provides primary care to around 14000 patients in Georgia. Almost 40% of the patients at the community health center are immigrants. By Mikki K Harris, for USA TODAY ... See all stories on this topic » USA TODAY

Premier touts Saskatchewan's 'lean' health-care gains Globe and Mail Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall will tell a conference of health experts in Montebello, Que., on Wednesday about the progress his province is making to reduce care costs while delivering better treatment to patients. Mr. Wall was shot down by the ... See all stories on this topic » Globe and Mail

Jobs, funding related to health care law at risk Politico And the hundreds of federal employees in the agencies created or expanded by the health law could find themselves at the center of a new round of fighting. Those positions rely on Affordable Care Act dollars that the court could take away by holding ... See all stories on this topic » Politico

Hatch and health care Salt Lake Tribune Jarvis I'ma delegate to Utah State Republican convention and I am looking for candidates who have a vision for health system reform beyond opposition to the Affordable Care Act. US Sen. Orrin Hatch recently restated his opposition to Obamacare in a ... See all stories on this topic »

St. David's HealthCare Hospitals Named to Nation's 100 Top Hospitals By ... Sacramento Bee By St. David's HealthCare AUSTIN, Texas, April 17, 2012 -- /PRNewswire/ -- On April 16, 2012, three St. David's HealthCare hospitals—St. David's Medical Center, St. David's North Austin Medical Center and St. David's Round Rock Medical Center—were ... See all stories on this topic »

Two health care "stocks under rocks" Forbes When people are confused about an industry, it often creates an opportunity for investors, and there's no industry people are more confused about right now that health care. People were bewildered by the potential impact of the Affordable Care Act even ... See all stories on this topic » Forbes

The power of universal health care The Star-Ledger - NJ.com (blog) By Star-Ledger Guest Columnist By Winthrop C. Dillaway III In 2009, when President Obama began his term of office, the US health care system was painfully dysfunctional. He announced an initiative for health care reform. Early on, "universal health ... See all stories on this topic » The Star-Ledger - NJ.com (blog)

Cerner and Advocate Health Care Take Bold Steps to Improve Patient Health ... MarketWatch (press release) KANSAS CITY, Mo., and CHICAGO, Apr 18, 2012 (GlobeNewswire via COMTEX) -- Today Cerner (NASDAQ:CERN) and the Midwest's largest health system, Advocate Health Care, announced a collaboration to create new data-driven models designed to improve patient ... See all stories on this topic »

Could Computers Replace Health Insurers? Forbes Neal Patterson, the chief executive of health care IT firm Cerner, believes that in the future the insurance companies that act as intermediaries between governments and consumers and the providers of medical care will be replaced by a new middle layer ... See all stories on this topic »

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Forget "Government Spending." The Only Thing That Really Matters ... By Kevin Drum We have a healthcare problem. The other three categories of government spending taken together will probably rise by a point or two over the next few decades, but that's not a big deal. We need to pay normal, prudential attention to them, but ... Kevin Drum Feed | Mother Jones

The Heart's Content | The Health Care Blog By Julia K. Boehm, PhD By Julia K. Boehm, PhD. The field of medicine has long focused on how negative psychological functioning is associated with disease – for example, how anxiety and depression increase the risk of heart attacks. Health, however, is more than ... The Health Care Blog

Share your health care savings tips in MONEY magazine - More ... By Money Editors Have you found a way to save money on health care? MONEY magazine would like to hear about it. Despite recent government efforts, health care costs are taking a bigger bite out of your wallet every year. Whether you're a family with kids, ... More Money - Money Magazine's...

BCBS OH – Changing face of health insurance and health care ... By health Health needs to be taken care of and despite all efforts one may fall sick due to a virus. It is the times when one needs to have a lot of money in the pocket for getting hospitalized or having. 1 Health Insurance

Encouraging Health Care Providers to Reach Youth for STD ... By Gail Bolan, M.D. April is STD Awareness Month, an annual observance to raise awareness about the impact of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) and the important role health care providers can play in supporting the sexual health of their patients. AIDS.gov blog

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Generic Atorvastatin and Health Care Costs — NEJM In their Perspective article on generic atorvastatin and health care costs, Jackevicius et al. (Jan. 19 issue)1 refer to agreements that we at Pfizer have reached ... www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc1202104