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• A Thinly-Disguised Power Grab: The Latest Senate “Compromise” On The Government-Run Health Plan

  
  The Foundry — Authority: 748
  Details are diabolical. Very soon, the fine print of the latest Senate scheme on the government-run health plan will be unveiled. If the Senate leadership has its way, the newly hatched “compromise” on the “public plan” will move quickly by the fleeting light of day toward passage. In their relentless drive ...
  2 days ago

• It’s High Time for Higher Goals

  
  Disruptive Women in Health Care — Authority: 420
  The following post by Glenna Crooks, PhD , founder and President of Strategic Health Policy International, Inc, is part of Disruptive Women’s “The Value of Health: Creating Economic Security in the Developing World” series. Glenna Crooks solves some of the toughest health care problems of our times by ...
  3 days ago

• Comcast CEO endorses Senate health bill

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  The chairman of Comcast endorsed the Senate health care bill in a letter Thursday to President Barack Obama, saying, "We cannot allow perfection to stand in the way of critically needed and very good legislation." "While there has been much controversy and debate over hundreds of provisions and alternatives, it is my ...
  5 days ago

• Senate Health Care Bill Puts Cost Burdens On Low-Income People

  
  Poverty & Policy — Authority: 411
  The health care reform bill passed by the House of Representatives does considerably more for poor and near-poor people than the bill the Senate will soon debate. The House bill would extend Medicaid, which offers good coverage at very low cost, to individuals and families up to 150% of the federal poverty line, while ...
  5 days ago

• Krugman Urges Centrists to Support Health Reform, But Industry is Crippling Cost Cuts

  
  Firedoglake — Authority: 723
  Economist Paul Krugman Paul Krugman’s column today, Reform or Else , urges Senate “centrists” who claim to be concerned about fiscal responsibility to consider what would happen if the current health reform efforts fail. Since both present and future deficits are largely driven by rapid escalation in health ...
  6 days ago

• Disease, death, and organ failure

  
  Early Retirement Extreme — Authority: 511
  Warning: Some of you are not going to like this post. Humans, currently tallying 6,700,000,000 are by far the most numerous large land/sea/air predator on the planet. No other species comes close. (Predators of a similar size usually number in the thousands, not billions). This would mean that for each tiger, say, ...
  1 week ago

• Senate Votes Obamacare One Step Closer to the Finish Line

  
  The Foundry — Authority: 748
  The Senate voted this evening by a 60-39 majority to commence debate on Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s bill that would radically expand government control over private health care decisions. The bill is over 2000 pages long, costs an estimated $2.5 trillion over the first ten years of implementation and ...
  2 weeks ago

• QUALITY: Dying Well Beats Dying Badly. And Expensively

  
  Health Policy Program: Latest Blog Posts — Authority: 135
  As weve written a lot on end of life care, we notice when others do the same.  NPRs Joseph Shapiro this week reported on La Crosse, WI where 96 percent of the adults who die have an advanced directive. That extraordinarily high figure arises from the innovations and commitment from Gundersen Lutheran hospital. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Med school prof: Dartmouth Atlas is ‘malarkey’

  
  Covering Health — Authority: 431
  In a story done in collaboration with The Philadelphia Inquirer , Kaiser Health News’ Jordan Rau’s report on a leading physician’s provocative attack on the Dartmouth Atlas gets off to a lively start: As he raced through the U.S. Capitol this fall, Dr. Richard “Buz” Cooper, a 73-year-old University of ...
  3 weeks ago

• Why is health care so costly? Mammograms.

  
  Crunchy Con — Authority: 675
  Not mammograms themselves, but what they symbolize in this weeks news. Youve read the story about how the expert panel recommends women delaying regular mammograms till 50, instead of starting them at 40. Theres been an uproar over that, and now it looks like doctors and patients alike are saying no way . Maybe thats ...
  3 weeks ago

• Preventative Medicine Increases Costs

  
  BASIL & SPICE--HEALTHCARE ISSUES! — Authority: 116
  Jeffrey B. English, M.D. Jeffrey B. English, M.D.-- How Wrong Is Congress About Health Care Reform? DEAD WRONG! Listening to Congress talk about the problems with the health care system is like listening to a high school economics student talk about the problems with IBM.  They really have no clue as to how ...
  3 weeks ago

• If Susan Collins Doesn’t Like The Health Bill, She Should Put Her Vote Where Her Mouth Is

  
  Wonk Room — Authority: 746
  Senate Democrats hoping to convince Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) to vote for health care reform may be disappointed by her rather unflattering portrayal of the Senate Finance health bill in this morning’s New York Times. “We should rewrite the whole bill,” Ms. Collins said. “There is considerable unease on both ...
  4 weeks ago

• Hiding the true cost of the Health Care Bill

  
  Blogatize Blog Network — Authority: 156
  I have posted previously on the fact that the costs of  Health Care Bill’s currently before Congress aren’t accurately reflected in the CBO’s scoring of those bills. The bills shift costs of Health Care away from Medicare and onto Medicaid.  Because the latter is administered by the States, this serves to ...
  4 weeks ago

• Improving Adherence with the Help of Pharmacies

  
  Disruptive Women in Health Care — Authority: 420
  The following post – part of Disruptive Women’s Drug Adherence Series – is by Stacey Irving of McKesson Patient Relationship Solutions. Poor medication adherence affects all of us in healthcare — it’s a problem that our entire industry is trying to tackle. By many estimates, more than 50% of patients ...
  5 weeks ago

• How Much Does the Pelosi Bill Really Cost?

  
  John Goodman's Health Policy Blog — Authority: 482
  According to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s press release, the cost is $894 billion. But this figure is net of certain new revenues, including penalties by individuals and employers who fail to meet new insurance requirements in the bill. Were the Senate Finance Committee (Baucus) bill reported the same way, its cost ...
  5 weeks ago

• How Much Does Health Care Cost?

  
  Swampland — Authority: 728
  A lot more than it does in other countries, especially if you are buying--as most of us do--a la carte. Ezra Klein has some eye-opening charts, showing average prices in different countries, which come to him via Kaiser Permanante CEO George Halvorson: The Other Klein writes:There is a simple explanation for why ...
  5 weeks ago

• Ten Things You Should Know About The Government Healthcare Takeover

  
  Start Thinking Right — Authority: 500
  Whether you support it or not, whether you know anything about it or not, the Democrats’ plan will have dramatic and sweeping impact over our lives. The thing that frightens me the most is the word “shall.”  It occurs 3,425 times in the Democrats’ H.R. 3692.  That means there are three thousand, four ...
  5 weeks ago

• How To Make $1.5 Trillion Look Like $894 Billion

  
  QandO — Authority: 141
  A ctually, it isn’t that hard.  And the Democrats demonstrate how to do it in the House Health Care bill. James C. Capretta explains: For starters, the gross cost of expanded Medicaid coverage and a new entitlement to subsidies for health insurance is much higher than Democrats are suggesting, according to the ...
  5 weeks ago

• An $896 Billion Heath Care Bill is unveiled by House Democrats

  
  BARACK OBAMA IN THE WHITEHOUSE — Authority: 124
  Finally after many months of preparation and changes the House Democrats presented the finalized heath care bill, containing 2,000 pages which now represents a combination of three different versions of the legislation. Passed by the House committees, the $894 billion bill which should be on the books for the next 10 ...
  5 weeks ago

• Tab for PelosiCare: $2.2 million per word

  
  The Lonely Conservative — Authority: 553
  Politico ran the numbers . That’s quite an expensive document she unveiled this morning. The House health care bill unveiled Thursday clocks in at 1,990 pages and about 400,000 words. With an estimated 10-year cost of $894 billion, that comes out to about $2.24 million per word. …. And for some members, that ...
  6 weeks ago

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