Thursday, April 19, 2012

Health Care News--4.19.12

 
Jim Webb: Health-care law represents a leadership failure for Obama
Washington Post (blog)
By Karen Tumulty President Obama's new health-care law will be his greatest liability as he attempts to once again win the critical swing state of Virginia, Sen. Jim Webb (D-Va.) warned Wednesday. "I'll be real frank here," Webb said at a breakfast ...
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Ending Health Care Pinball
Huffington Post
Right now, the debate over American health policy is understandably focused on the Affordable Care Act -- and the possibility that the Supreme Court might overturn it. The legal and political uncertainties surrounding the health care law seem to have ...
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Survey shows holes in health insurance coverage
Los Angeles Times
By Noam N. Levey WASHINGTON -- With the future of the healthcare law emerging as a major campaign issue this fall, a new survey has found that more than a quarter of adults ages 19 to 64 in the United States lacked health insurance for at least some ...
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Further Acceleration in US Healthcare Costs in February 2012 According to the ...
MarketWatch (press release)
NEW YORK, April 19, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- The S&P Healthcare Economic Composite Index indicates that the average per capita cost of healthcare services covered by commercial insurance and Medicare programs increased by 5.75% over the ...
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GE Healthcare to Develop Next Generation Compact Cyclotron and PET Tracer ...
MarketWatch (press release)
UPPSALA, Sweden & WAUKESHA, Wis., Apr 19, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- GE Healthcare, a unit of General Electric Company (NYSE:GE) , and NXT2B, a privately owned venture capital company, today announced they have entered into a joint financing agreement ...
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Health Mandate's Affordable Care Act: What's at stake
Palm Beach Post
latest money news » From The Post and AP By John Lantigua The intense debate over whether the US should oblige all citizens to have health insurance has been accompanied in recent days by another spirited squabble: Just whose idea was it in the first ...
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Emory Healthcare patient information missing
Fox News
My Fox Atlanta Officials with Emory Healthcare say patient information affecting hundreds of thousands has been reported missing from a storage facility. According to Emory Healthcare President and CEO John Fox, 10 backup discs containing information ...
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One in Four Had Gap in Health Insurance
MedPage Today
By Emily P. Walker, Washington Correspondent, MedPage Today WASHINGTON -- A quarter of surveyed adults (26%) went without health insurance at some point in 2011 because of losing a job, changing jobs, or losing Medicaid eligibility, according to a ...
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Health Insurance, Once Lost, Stays Elusive As Americans Remain Uninsured
Huffington Post
More than one-quarter of Americans surveyed went without health insurance for at least part of 2011. A majority of them were uninsured for two years or longer, according to a new report. Americans aren't just becoming uninsured.
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Protecting Healthcare Workers from Exposure to Hazardous Drugs
MarketWatch (press release)
[i] To help raise awareness of the risks healthcare providers face when handling hazardous drugs, National Safe Handling Awareness Day was created in 2009 and is acknowledged every year on April 20. In recognition of this year's National Safe Handling ...
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Blogs
 
No Panacea for China's Healthcare Reform | The Health Care Blog
By Benjamin A Shobert
Beijing's struggle to reform its healthcare system brings political concerns, social issues and business pressures together on a collision course. While the need for government and industry to collaborate on these matters is obvious, whether ...
The Health Care Blog
Healthcare-NOW! - The Power of Universal Health Care
By Healthcare-NOW!
By Winthrop C. Dillaway III for NJ.com - In 2009, when President Obama began his term of office, the U.S. health care system was painfully dysfunctional. He.
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Democrat Senator BLASTS OBAMA: Health Care Law Represents ...
By Jim Hoft
The health care bill was being devised long before Obama ever came into office and it wasn't by congressional leaders who were representing the wishes of their constituency. It was written by Van Jones and his staff at the Apollo Alliance.
The Gateway Pundit
New Research Finds Health Care Remains a Key Concern for ...
Consumers increasingly turning to health websites for information Apr 18, 2012 - Economy jobs still top the list of issues of greatest importance to Americans,
Drugs.com - Clinical Trials
Why Hasn't Software Eaten Healthcare, Finance, and Education Yet ...
By Andy Rachleff
Three industries, however, have remained largely apart from the trend: health care, finance, and education. But over the next 8-10 years, I expect these last three sectors finally to be disrupted by software, with new world-beating Silicon Valley ...
PandoDaily

Web
 
Healthcare prices still baffle consumers in California - Los Angeles ...
Californians are still struggling to get straight answers about the cost of common medical procedures despite state efforts aimed at lifting the veil on medical ...
articles.latimes.com/2012/.../la-fi-adv-medical-prices-2012041...

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