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• Radical concept: Know what you’re paying for in health care

  
  The Platform — Authority: 518
  The question was deceptively simple. It was answered with a telling silence. What would Barnes-Jewish Hospital charge for heart bypass surgery, Dr. Glenn Steele asked a St. Louis audience on Tuesday. “I can tell you what it costs at one of…
  6 hours ago

• Why health-care reform cant control costs

  
  Ezra Klein — Authority: 792
  A reader asks: I heard (somewhere on NPR I think ... maybe This American Life) an argument that in many regions the public option and generally more competition among health insurers would actually drive premiums up. In these regions, the problem is that providers are too strong and insurers dont have the ...
  10 hours ago

• Senate Votes to Keep Medicare Cuts Intact, Ensures Preventive Women’s Health

  
  DOCTOR PUNDIT — Authority: 131
  Sen. John McCain’s move to include an amendment in the health reform bill was overturned by a 58-42 vote. Recall that his provision would have thrown out the possibility for women’s preventive services (chiefly, screening mammograms) and also would have eliminated cuts in Medicare spending. Joining in the ...
  11 hours ago

• Senate votes to keep Medicare cuts

  
  Capitol Briefing — Authority: 108
  By Lori Montgomery The Senate voted Thursday to keep nearly $500 billion in Medicare cuts in its overhaul of the health care system, protecting the bills major source of financing against a Republican attack. On a vote of 58 to 42, the Senate rejected a proposal by Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) to send the bill back to ...
  11 hours ago

• Do ‘Cadillac’ Plans Equal Cadillac Benefits?

  
  Health Affairs Blog — Authority: 604
  Editor’s Note: For more on the controversy over taxing high-cost health plans, see a “ Cadillacs Or Ambulances? The Senate Tax On ‘Excessive Benefits , a Health Affairs  Blog post by Joseph White and Timothy Jost published today. The Senate Democratic health plan includes a provision, backed by the Obama ...
  12 hours ago

• Cadillacs Or Ambulances? The Senate Tax On ‘Excessive’ Benefits

  
  Health Affairs Blog — Authority: 604
  Editor’s Note: For more on the controversy over taxing high-cost health plans, see “ Taxing Cadillac Health Plans May Produce Chevy Results ,” a Health Affairs Web First article by Jon Gabel and coauthors published today. The Senate “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act” draft legislation includes ...
  12 hours ago

• Kristof’s Story: “Are We Going to Let John Die?”

  
  John Goodman's Health Policy Blog — Authority: 438
  As a loyal reader for many years, I sincerely believe that New York Times editorial writer Nicholas Kristof sincerely cares about people and is genuinely saddened when they don’t get the care they need. Trouble is, he doesn’t understand the health care system, or why we have the problems we have, or what it ...
  12 hours ago

• NWLC Applauds Passage of Mikulski Womens Health Amendment in the Senate

  
  Womenstake — Authority: 561
  Today, the Senate voted 61 to 39 to pass an amendment to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and helps to ensure that women get the preventative care they need. Offered by Senator Mikulski (D-MD), the amendment requires all health plans to cover comprehensive women’s preventative care and screenings, ...
  12 hours ago

• Key Conservative Dem Senator Proposes No Change in Stupak Amend. as Condition of Reform

  
  DOCTOR PUNDIT — Authority: 131
  It’s one thing to expect more stridently worded language in an amendment to a bill pending its passage in the House of Representatives. The Senate, on the other hand, usually takes a more reasoned approach to refining such provisions prior to ultimate passage. Apparently, this isn’t so with a certain Senate ...
  14 hours ago

• Senate backs removing barriers for women’s preventative health screenings

  
  Courier Times Now — Authority: 453
  The U.S. Senate backed a plan on Thursday to make it easier for women to get preventive health services such as mammograms as it cast its first votes on a sweeping healthcare overhaul. On the fourth day of a sometimes bitter debate, the Senate voted 61-39 for an amendment to improve access to women’s screenings for ...
  14 hours ago

• Senate Health Care Bill: Let’s Shut Even More People Out of the System

  
  Behind Blue Lines — Authority: 116
  Leave it to the economic illiterates of the left to expand what’s not working already. Which is why I hope someone drives a stake through the heart of “health care reform” currently before the Congress.Let’s think this one through, shall we? Currently, Medicaid reimbursement levels are so low that many ...
  14 hours ago

• The best public option discussion youll read today

  
  Ezra Klein — Authority: 792
  We recognize that taking a strong public option off the table may be necessary to enact reform legislation. But this will mean, at a minimum, higher government subsidy costs by not permitting a payer with substantial market power to bring cost containment pressure on the system. The outcome is likely to be that costs ...
  14 hours ago

• Tax on high-cost health plans is to strip down employer-provided health coverage, not raise revenue

  
  SF Gray Panthers — Authority: 124
  As this and another recent NY Times piece explain, the Obama administration demands four cornerstones of healthcare reform: (1) a Medicare cost-containment Commission, (2) taxing high-cost private insurance, (3) reform of medical payment incentives, and (4) deficit reduction.  Each of these cornerstones is designed ...
  14 hours ago

• Specialists should staff the patient centered medical homes, not primary care doctors

  
  KevinMD.com — Authority: 559
  "> "> Originally published in HCPLive.com by Alan Berkenwald, MD The approaching fire storm over the “patient-centered medical home” model reminds me of the destructive powers seen before in HMOs. Once seemingly destined to revolutionize organized medicine, the HMO model nearly destroyed it. ...
  15 hours ago

• What Doctors Say About the Senate Health-Care Bill

  
  WSJ.com: Health Blog — Authority: 682
  Several groups oppose certain cost-control measures but support changes to health-insurance rules.
  16 hours ago

• Save the Medicare Commission!

  
  Ezra Klein — Authority: 792
  The independent Medicare Commission is one of the most promising cost-control measures in the Senate bill. But as Joshua Gordon explains , its been seriously weakened in recent weeks. The big problem is that the commission is now barred from submitting reform proposals when Medicares five-year spending growth ...
  17 hours ago

• Five Burrs

  
  BlueNC - The people's think tank — Authority: 570
  Keeping up with Richard Burrs lying ways is starting to be a full time job.
  18 hours ago

• Wanted by Senate Democrats: A Republican or two to support health bill

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 791
  Filed under: People , Healthcare As U.S. Sen. Harry Reid tries to corral enough Democratic votes for his $848 billion health care reform bill, the Democrat from Nevada may find solace in the words of Mark Twain . When the writer was once asked if he belonged to an organized political party in the United States, ...
  19 hours ago

• Why electronic medical records won’t improve patient care or cut costs

  
  KevinMD.com — Authority: 559
  "> "> Have electronic medical records made a difference in patient care? According to a study looking at digital medical record adoption of 3,000 hospitals, electronic records have made little difference in cost or quality of care. That’s discouraging, considering that the government is investing ...
  21 hours ago

• Op-Ed Columnist: The Long Hot Winter

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 901
  Gail Collins
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