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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”

 

• Oregon may be the White House’s favorite health exchange

  
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  Welcome to Health Reform Watch, Sarah Kliff’s regular look at how the Affordable Care Act is changing the American health-care system — and being changed by it. You can reach Sarah with questions, comments and suggestions  here . Check back every Monday, Wednesday and Friday afternoon for the latest edition, and ...
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• What If the Exchanges Aren’t Ready?

  
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  This is from my column today in The Wall Street Journal . The Obama administration wants something the federal government has never done before: a computer system that connects HHS, the Internal Revenue Service, the Social Security Administration, Homeland Security and perhaps other departments as well. This is a ...
  3 days ago

• Shocking: Employers Can Satisfy ObamaCare Rules with Bare-Bones Health Plans

  
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  They cover minimal requirements such as preventive services, but often little more. Some of the plans wouldn’t cover surgery, X-rays or prenatal care at all. Others will be paired with limited packages to cover additional services, for instance, $100 a day for a hospital visit. Federal officials say this type of ...
  3 days ago

• Implementing Health Reform: Preexisting Condition Insurance Plan & Medicaid/CHIP Renewal

  
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  Editors note: Health Affairs Blog has been proud to host Tim Josts series of posts, "Implementing Health Reform, tracking the implementation of the Affordable Care Act. In recent days the implementing agencies -- Health and Human Services, Labor, and Treasury -- have been issuing regulations, proposed regulations, ...
  3 days ago

• Why the Oregon Medicaid study is misunderstood

  
  KevinMD.com — Authority: 542
  Much has already been written about the  Oregon Medicaid study that came out in the New England Journal of Medicine . Unfortunately, the vast majority is reflex, rather than reflection.  The study seems to serve as a Rorschach test of sorts, confirming people’s biases about whether Medicaid is “good” or ...
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• America is at war with its doctors, and patients are the losers

  
  KevinMD.com — Authority: 542
  Not old enough to remember any sort of “glory day” in medicine, I still enjoy hearing from older colleagues who recount days when they were respected, paid fairly, and able to practice medicine autonomously at the highest and most uncompromising level. What was that like, I wonder? For five years, I’ve been a ...
  4 days ago

• A Great Time Saver

  
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  As the case for nurse practitioners is becoming increasingly obvious across the spectrum, predictably, the turf battles are rearing their ugly heads. Here is a blatant  example  of the rhetoric and follows a formula that I am going to reveal to spare any future time wasting reading them. Refer to the physician ...
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• Kasich remains optimistic about Medicaid expansion deal

  
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  Gov. Kasich said this week that he would support a ballotinitiative to expand Medicaid, although he is still holding out hope that thestate legislature will pass an expansion bill first (Source: “ Governor patienton Medicaid issue ,” Toledo Blade, May 10, 2013). While leadership in both the Ohio House and ...
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• Feds to give community health centers $150 million for ACA outreach

  
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  Responding to criticism that not enough money has beenallocated to educating consumers about enrolling in health exchanges, the Obamaadministration announced Thursday that community health centers across thecountry will get $150 million to help uninsured Americans sign up for healthinsurance coverage under the ACA ...
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• Implementing Health Reform: Employer Coverage Option Notices

  
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  As Affordable Care Act implementation inexorably moves into place, guidance continues to issue forth from the implementing agencies -- now almost on a daily basis -- shoring up the edifice that is becoming the reality of health care reform. On May 8, the Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security ...
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• A Framework For Accountable Care Measures

  
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  The Affordable Care Act included provisions to accelerate the transition to value-based payment, including Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs). Many private sector insurers, providers and employers also are moving in this direction. However, many of today’s measures are inadequate to the task of assessing and ...
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• Physician Practice Satisfaction: Why We Should Care

  
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  In less than nine months millions of Americans will receive new health care coverage through provisions of the Affordable Care Act. Most observers believe that strong physician leadership can help heath care reform succeed, through the optimization of care quality and cost management. But, at the same time, too many ...
  2 weeks ago

• Obama to tout access to mammograms, cancer screenings under healthcare reform

  
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  President Obamas health plan will take center stage Friday when he promotes the benefits available to women, including mammograms and cancer screenings, under the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010. read more
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• Understanding The Reasons For Premium Changes Under The ACA

  
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  States are beginning to release information on what health insurance premiums will be in 2014. That’s when the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) market reform rules that apply to the individual and small group markets will go into effect. The natural temptation will be to simply compare the 2014 premiums to those in ...
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• The Most Important Health Policy Study of Our Generation

  
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  Perhaps the most important paper on the effect of health insurance on health, spending, and access to care was released this week. Although randomized controlled trials are rare for measuring the effect of insurance, the design of the Oregon Medicaid program introduced random variation into who received Medicaid ...
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• 150% Rate Hike?

  
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  Robert Laszewski reports on the premium increases projected in Maryland’s health insurance exchange. …Maryland Blue Cross has filed for an average increase of 25% for individual coverage warning young people could pay as much as 150% more…
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• Colorado bills go a long way toward improving mental health care

  
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  By Sarah Lincoln Guest Commentary Colorado is at a critical moment in moving toward meaningful mental health reform. Time is running out on this year’s legislative session and House Bill 1296 and HB 1306 hold the promise of new policies that will set in motion changes in how mental health is treated in ...
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• Aw, Thats Cute: Republicans Dreaming About Using ObamaCare to Win in 2014

  
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  For a while now, I have argued that in 2014, the Democrats most potent electoral weapon will be a fully implemented Affordable Care Act. By October, the health insurance exchanges will be set up all across this country, and people will be able to start signing up for coverage, with the help of the largest refundable ...
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• Live chat recap: Your questions on health insurance reform answered

  
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  Confused or worried about the coming health reform changes? Bring questions to experts at our live chat.
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• Doctors need to be the leaders of health care change

  
  KevinMD.com — Authority: 542
  In a time of crisis is when leaders step forward. If our nation faces one crisis, then it is that of the health care system which increasingly is unaffordable and trails other industrialized countries in quality and access. If there was a time leadership was needed then it would be now. As doctors, we should be ...
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