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• Ineffective Plavix Ads Cost US Taxpayers A Bundle

  
  Pharmalot — Authority: 575
  The price Medicaid paid for the bloodthinner rose 12 percent “immediately” after direct-to-consumer ads began in 2001, and those higher costs added $207 million to Medicaid spending in 27 states during the next four years, even as prescriptions rose at a constant rate, according to a study in the Archives of ...
  15 hours ago

• ObamaCares winners and losers

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 173
  After the Senate voted Saturday night to pro ceed with debate on health reform, Majority Leader Harry Reid declared the public the winner. In truth, more Americans will be losers than winners. Both Senate and House bills strip nearly half a trillion dollars from Medicare, robbing seniors to expand Medicaid. The Senate ...
  17 hours ago

• Public Opinion Has Changed Since Clinton Tried Health Care Reform

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 714
  Public opinions have changed since President Bill Clinton tried to reform the health care system more than a a decade ago. USA Today reports that "the years since Clintons failed effort have seen the cost of medical services nearly double and softened some of the skepticism voiced by Americans in 1993 and 1994.
  17 hours ago

• Early detection decreases death rate from breast cancer

  
  Real Health Reform — Authority: 118
  The recent brouhaha created by the ill timed, ill worded, ill phrased (or is it just ill) report from the USPSTF (US Preventative Services Task Force) has stirred the pot to be sure.  We support individualized treatment of patients.  We applaud the tailoring of medical testing and procedures to individual needs and ...
  20 hours ago

• The Democrats’ Ticking Time Bomb

  
  Let Freedom Ring — Authority: 138
  Democrats face a ticking time bomb in the form of increased state taxes if Medicaid coverage is expanded. If either the House or Senate bills are signed into law, states will face what I’ve called the ‘mother of all unfunded mandates’ : About 59 million people are on Medicaid today, which means that ...
  20 hours ago

• Social Security Agency To Investigate If California Is Illegally Denying Social Security Disability and SSI Claims

  
  SF Gray Panthers — Authority: 120
  California Disability Action Community Network,  November 23, 2009 Social Security Agency To Investigate If California Is Illegally Denying Social Security Disability and SSI Claims Social Security Commissioner Says Furloughs of Federally Funded State Employees In Dept. of Social Services Who Help In ...
  22 hours ago

• Plavix Ads Increase Medicaid Costs but Not Usage (CME/CE)

  
  emedist.com — Authority: 163
  Medicaid expenditures for clopidogrel (Plavix) soared after direct-to-consumer TV ads for the drug began airing, though not because of any change in prescription trends, researchers said.source : www.medpagetoday.com
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• Health Care Reform Hit Parade: Senate Mix

  
  odd time signatures — Authority: 513
  Amid the roar of pundits, politicians and people, a quieter and more significant theme emerges: Whether or not there is a public option, the Senate and House reform bills DO represent real, badly needed health insurance AND care reform. Now that the big “debate the bill” vote is passed, we have a week for ...
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• Bernie Parrish: Delay, Dismiss, Deny

  
  Dave Pear's Official Blog — Authority: 124
  Roger Goodell, Chairman of the "Abuse of Discretion Committee" that they call The Retirement Board gets caught red-handed, so now we have people thanking him for putting a minuscule part of his loot back on the counter?
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• Did State Medicaid Programs Finance Plavix Direct-to-Consumer Advertising?

  
  Pharma Marketing Blog — Authority: 521
  When the November 15, 2009, AARP Rx Watchdog Report revealed that manufacturer prices for widely used brand name drugs have climbed dramatically over the last year, despite a negative general inflation rate, many people -- including several Congressmen -- suspected “price gouging” in anticipation of future cost ...
  1 day ago

• Health Reform Update: Senate Bill Proceeds to Debate

  
  JFActivist — Authority: 427
  Senate Votes to Proceed to Debate on Health Reform Excerpt from the Capitol Insider (11/23/09): by Annie Acosta On Saturday evening, by a party line vote of60-39, the Senate passed a motion to proceed to debate the Patient Protectionand Affordable Care Act (H.R. 3590). The bill ...
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• Republican Purity and Conservatism

  
  Outside The Beltway | OTB — Authority: 673
  It appears that the Republican National Committee is working on a set of principles that Republican candidates have to adhere to in order to receive funding and support from the RNC. There are ten principles listed, and the candidates have to adhere to at least seven of these principles “as identified by the ...
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• The Democrats don’t want to abolish the private insurance industry. They are capitalists.

  
  SF Gray Panthers — Authority: 120
  “For the Democrats, with the exception of John Conyers and a few others, they simply don’t want to abolish the private insurance industry. They are capitalists and believe in the capitalist system that makes health care a commodity to be bought and sold. For them, health care is not a human right. … One minute ...
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• HCAN and Organizing for America continue the profit-making power of the insurance industry

  
  SF Gray Panthers — Authority: 120
  HCAN and Organizing for America are following in the footsteps of organizations that are created every time health care reform is attempted. They promote incremental changes to the system and the legislation urgently (health reform can’t wait!) and passionately promoted is not designed to solve the crisis, but ...
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• Reid: No Connection Between Mammogram Recommendations and Dems’ Health Reforms

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 157
  In a  statement released Sunday afternoon, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) became the latest Democrat to try to divorce the party’s health reform bills from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, which issued controversial new guidelines last week for breast cancer screening. Let’s be clear: the ...
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• CMS looks to EHR data to combat waste and fraud

  
  News — Authority: 128
  CMS is looking at EHR reporting as a way to help the embattled agency weed out payment inefficiencies and combat rampant Medicare and Medicaid fraud. "We hope to be able to use data available through the use of new electronic health record reporting that can help in the design of new and innovative approaches to ...
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• Statement of Administration Policy

  
  Courier Times Now — Authority: 603
  The Administration strongly supports Senate passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (the proposed substitute to H.R. 3590), which represents a critical milestone in the effort to reform our health care system.  This legislation meets the President’s criteria for health insurance reform:  it ...
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• CMS Moves Up Avastin Pricing Changes

  
  Pharmalot — Authority: 575
  After pressure from Congress, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid has accelerated its recently announced changes to reimbursement coding for Avastin, which is used to treat wet macular degeneration, a leading cause of blindness among seniors. The drug, however, is controversial because it’s often used off-label in ...
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• Finding an Elder Law Attorney to be Your Medicaid Advisor

  
  Elder Care ABC — Authority: 471
  Many Medicaid advisors are elder law attorneys. When your parent owns property and has investments then a Medicaid advisor can guide you and your parent through options to preserve your parent’s estate.  In a recent post , I discussed the importance of planning for your parent’s smooth transition to Medicaid. A ...
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• "Medical ghetto"?

  
  Larry James' Urban Daily — Authority: 131
  Even though I expect this post will set off a firestorm of comments, many or most of which will be very negative, I cannot find the words to properly express just how offensive I find the words of Senator Lamar Alexander (R-TN) during a speech he delivered in the current Senate health care debate. Give him your ...
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