Sunday, April 08, 2012

Health Care News--4.7.12

 
Health care debate says who we are, who we aren't
Iowa City Press Citizen
We heard the phrase earlier last September when critics scolded Tea Partiers for cheering the prospect that an uninsured man might be left to die if he couldn't pay for his own health care. We don't cheer misery. We don't cheer needless death.
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Health, Politics and the Supreme Court
New York Times
It was nothing less than astonishing for conservative justices to suggest that approval of the mandate to buy health insurance under the Commerce Clause would allow Congress to mandate that we eat broccoli. Indeed, why should the conservatives on the ...
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What makes health care different
Washington Post
As best as I can tell, the recent arguments at the Supreme Court did not touch on a critical part of the discussion about government's role in health care: the broken market for private insurance. And I think I know why. A key assumption underlying the ...
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The Democratization of Health Care: The Mandate
Huffington Post
The Obamacare requirement that each individual purchase health insurance has ignited a political and legal firestorm. Much of the reporting by liberal, conservative, and nonpartisan media cloaks the fact that while there may be a political controversy ...
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Democrats Struggle to Market Obamacare to Skeptical American Public
Daily Beast
by Judith Grey Apr 7, 2012 4:45 AM EDT As the Supreme Court weighs whether to strike down the president's health-care reform, Democrats are presented with an almost impossible problem: how to make the law palatable. Messaging experts offer ideas for ...
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Daily Beast
Broccoli Is a Choice, Health Insurance Is Not
Huffington Post (blog)
Based on the recent Supreme Court arguments on healthcare, it appears that the individual mandate for the purchase of health insurance in the 2010 Affordable Care Act is headed for the scrapheap. If it is, that would essentially bring healthcare reform ...
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Vikram Amar and Alan Brownstein: Why Supreme Court and Americans shouldn't ...
San Jose Mercury News
By Vikram Amar and Alan Brownstein The Affordable Care Act faced a possibly fatal constitutional challenge last month when the Supreme Court heard arguments about its individual mandate provision. Much of the terrain was easy going. Health care and ...
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Justice Thomas says bench questions during health care oral arguments weren't ...
Washington Post
Whatever the reason, the Georgia native had a blunt assessment about the rapid-fire questioning from his colleagues during recent hearings on the nation's health care law. The queries weren't helpful to him in deciding the case, he said.
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In the Spotlight: Health care reform should have been left to states
Peoria Journal Star
By Anonymous It is now two years since the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act - ObamaCare - passed. I have been gathering information on what we know about that law. Its goals were to extend health care to millions of uninsured and lower the ...
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In the Spotlight: Health care a shared responsibility in a democratic society
Peoria Journal Star
He went on to say that the law is flawed, in part, because it would force a 20-something, single, healthy male to purchase health insurance for medical services like pediatrics and gynecology that he would never use. (PJS, March 28) That young, ...
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Blogs
 
Soren Petersen: Reinventing Health Care: The Design and ...
By Soren Petersen
When patients see themselves as guests rather than sick people, their beliefs, attitudes and behaviors change and this tends to greatly advance their bodies own ability to heal itself, which, amazingly enough, is what really happens.
The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed
Romney Health Care Plan: Let States Handle the Problem ...
By By ANDREW ROSENTHAL
The candidate wants the states to take over. Here's why that's a bad idea.
The Loyal Opposition
Bachmann: Obama a 'health care dictator' for contraception mandate ...
By David Edwards
Michele Bachmann (R-MN), who calls herself "a high-value target for the Democrats," says that President Barack Obama is a "health care dictator" because his administration is mandating that all insurance plans cover contraception for women ...
The Raw Story
Hospital Group: Quinn's Budget Will Undermine Health Care For ...
By Adam Harrington
An official representing some 200 Illinois Hospitals is warning against the big Medicaid cuts in Gov. Pat Quinn's budget.
CBS Chicago
The Letterman Approach to Cost Awareness | The Health Care Blog
By Christopher Moriates, MD
And yet, thus far the only groups that have seemed to have taken him up on the suggestion have been the primary care specialties of Internal Medicine, Family Medicine and Pediatrics – notably amongst the least compensated fields in health ...
The Health Care Blog

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