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• in Politics
  Obama For President: Like We've Got Any Other Choice
  What Obama's done in his first term gives little hope for what might occur in a second.
  by shadowdoc1953 / on Apr 5, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “health reform”

 

• Why we need to go from e-patient to i-patient

  
  KevinMD.com — Authority: 571
  I found a recent Associated Press article on an aspect of the new health care law that many of us may have overlooked. It requires consumer-friendly summaries of what insurance plans cover, a provision that now seems to be at risk. The insurance industry is up in arms about implementation costs and added regulatory ...
  6 days ago

• HHS touts ACA efforts to shrink Medicare donut hole

  
  Ohio Health Policy Review — Authority: 102
  The Obama administration announced yesterday that in the first full year of the Affordable Care Act, Medicare beneficiaries saved $2.1 billion on prescription drugs as a result of a provision in the health reform law that closes the so-called Medicare Part D donut hole (Source: “ Medicare savings for drugs top $2.1 ...
  6 days ago

• After Interview Stumble, Romney Tries to Regain Footing on Statements on Very Poor

  
  DOCTOR PUNDIT — Authority: 95
  Posted in CMS Healthcare Policy & The Media Politics & The Law Probable GOP nominee for president, former Mass. Gov. Mitt Romney, came under attack over the past couple of days for comments on discounting the “very poor” as this demographic benefits from the existence of a societal “safety net” ...
  6 days ago

• Identical twins with different ideas about healthcare

  
  KevinMD.com — Authority: 571
  Jack and John are identical twins, but have varying interests in life. One day Jack, 43-years old, decides he has had enough of these headaches and calls his family doctor and asks what he should do. He is told that his doctor can see him in 4 days and to take some over the counter ibuprofren. And to definitely go to ...
  6 days ago

• EHRs May Break the Bank in San Francisco

  
  John Goodman's Health Policy Blog — Authority: 494
  The San Francisco Department of Public Health says it is ahead of the curve in rolling out databases that keep tabs on tens of thousands of patients across a citywide network of clinics and hospitals. The rollout is needed not just to make a local form of “universal health care” work, but also to meet a 2014 ...
  6 days ago

• Is ObamaCare’s Medicaid Expansion Constitutional?

  
  John Goodman's Health Policy Blog — Authority: 105
  This is actually a more interesting question than I originally thought. Here is Robert Book at the Apothecary : The health reform law passed in March 2010 provides for a substantial expansion of the “must cover” population – essentially anyone from a family with income below 138% of the federal poverty line ...
  6 days ago

• Latest Wonk Review Highlights HA Blog Post On Bay State Reform

  
  Health Affairs Blog — Authority: 528
  At the Colorado Health Care Insider, Louise Norris hosts the latest edition of the Health Wonk Review. Louise includes Sharon Long’s Health Affairs Blog post clarifying the facts about health reform in Massachusetts. Check out Sharon’s post and all the great posts in Louise’s Wonk Review.
  6 days ago

• Medicare Advantage enrollment grows 10% as insurers compete

  
  FierceHealthPayer — Authority: 489
  Enrollment in Medicare Advantage has grown by 10 percent. Meanwhile, premiums have fallen at an average 7 percent as insurers compete for seniors business, the Department of Health & Human Services announced Wednesday. Roughly 12.8 million seniors now are enrolled in a Medicare Advantage health plan, up from 11.7 ...
  6 days ago

• GP leaders turn back on NHS plans

  
  heave-ho.org — Authority: 449
  The Royal College of GPs calls for the health bill to be scrapped, heaping more pressure on the governments controversial reforms in England.
  6 days ago

• Why EMR is a dirty word to many doctors

  
  KevinMD.com — Authority: 571
  Don’t get me wrong, EMRs (electronic medical records) are inevitable. Over the long-run they are almost certainly good for physicians, patients and the healthcare industry. However, their origin and the ulterior motives currently driving their adoption is sowing the seeds of their failure.  First, what is actually ...
  1 week ago

• Health Care News Roundup

  
  Disruptive Women in Health Care — Authority: 107
  By Carrie Winans The Disruptive Women in Health Care blog continually aims to encourage discussion and debate among readers about emerging issues and topics in the health care world. Historically, one of the ways that we have done that is through our weekly round-ups – that is, posts containing summaries and ...
  1 week ago

• Check your Health Policy Prowess (HPP) with two quizzes from Kaiser Family Foundation

  
  The Doctor Weighs In — Authority: 418
  by Patricia Salber So, you think you know everything there is to know about Health Reform?  How about Medicare?  Maybe or maybe not.  Our friends over at the Kaiser Family Foundation have just the tests for you (plus they provide the correct answers just in case you didn’t get something right. Here is the link ...
  1 week ago

• PODCAST: Obamacare Ends Medicare as We Know it

  
  The Foundry: Conservative Policy News Blog from The Heritage Foundation — Authority: 759
  In this week’s Heritage in Focus, expert Bob Moffit discusses how Obamacare ends Medicare as we know it. Click here to listen . How does the health reform law break up traditional Medicare? What’s a better way to fix Medicare? And how much could we save by bringing free market reforms to it? Be sure to hear ...
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• Newt’s 2003 Blueprint for ObamaCare

  
  Big Government — Authority: 771
  The idea that America needs transforming, and that he is the man to do it, did not start with Barack Obama. The grandiosely named Center for Health Transformation (CHT) was started by former House Speaker Newt Gingrich. In 2003, Newt Gingrich wrote Saving Lives & Saving Money: Transforming Health and ...
  1 week ago

• The States Contradiction

  
  The Health Law Junkie — Authority: 89
  Not too long ago, I came across an article  discussing Texas HMOs strong and exponentially growing profits due to their Medicare and Medicaid niche. The numbers are particularly interesting considering Texas is one of 26 states challenging the constitutionality of health reform and has a national joke  governor ...
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• PCORI, Priorities, and Politics

  
  PharmExec Blog — Authority: 406
  William Looney looks at the three P’s of effectiveness  research:  PCORI, Priorities, and Politics If you ever wanted to know what health economists might do with a billion dollars, the Obama Administration’s  Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute [PCORI] is about to tell all:  not right down to ...
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• Wednesday morning’s 10 interesting things

  
  Under the Mountain Bunker & Coffee Shop — Authority: 132
  1)  Vice President Joe Biden  – “But the best way to sum up the job the president has done — if you need a real shorthand — Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive.”   | Note: US auto manufacturing is alive, no thanks to Mitt Romney, who would have let GM, Ford, and Chrysler go bankrupt … ...
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• Improve patient safety to improve healthcare quality

  
  KevinMD.com — Authority: 571
  It has taken 13 years for us to revisit the issues in To Err Is Human , the 1999 landmark government report that shocked our nation with its revelation that 98,000 people died yearly in hospitals due to doctors’ errors. For decades, and through one administration after another, the lack of safety in our ...
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• How Moneyball applies to healthcare

  
  KevinMD.com — Authority: 571
  The storyline is familiar. An organization is challenged to achieve better results without spending more money.  An executive is committed to obtaining these better outcomes and recognizes that more financial resources aren’t forthcoming .  Faced with the option of near-certain failure if he continues to work ...
  2 weeks ago

• How Health Reform will affect Hospital’s Business Strategy

  
  Healthcare Economist — Authority: 410
  For many years, fee for service payment was the status quo. FFS model encourages hospitals to adopt the following strategies to maximize market share and profits: Centered on short-term acute care Focused on specialist alignment Driven by a volume-based service-line strategy Using expensive medical equipment ...
  3 weeks ago

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