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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”

 

• 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 ...
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• 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

  
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  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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• Further Thoughts On The Recession And Health Spending

  
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  Much has been made of the slowdown in health spending growth and the role played by the economy. I have to confess that my first take, after studying plots of business cycles and health spending, was that health spending “had a mind of its own” and paid no attention to business cycles. Consider the two most ...
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• Is The Recent Health Care Spending Growth Slowdown Sustainable Over The Long Term?

  
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  Following the third straight year in which the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services estimated the growth in national health expenditures to be a record-low 3.9 percent, considerable speculation on the causes of slower spending growth has come from a variety of sources. There seems to be a consensus among ...
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• Health insurance exchanges will be hampered by choice overload

  
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  Now that states have decided what they are going to do about health insurance exchanges—those new shopping carts created by Obamacare to help consumers find health insurance who do not get it through their employers—the really tough part begins.  State and federal governments need to make sure that consumers ...
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• Reflections on medical education, medical practice and the underserved

  
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  I recently spoke at the Student National Medical Association’s (SNMA) Annual Medical Education Conference in Louisville, KY. Accompanying me was former SNMA President Bryant Cameron Webb, MD, JD. We covered three main topics in our workshop: medical education, the practice of medicine, and the underserved. Medical ...
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• New Health Affairs Issue: Will The Health Care Spending Growth Slowdown Last?

  
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  Health Affairs’ May issue , released today, analyzes the recent slowing in the growth of health care expenditures and explores whether the trend will last. The issue also addresses major cost drivers in Medicare and presents proposals for putting the program on a more sustainable path. Another article tracks ...
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• Nurse-midwives: then and now

  
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  In honor of the 40 th  anniversary of the University of Minnesota School of Nursing’s nurse-midwife degree program, Melissa Avery, Ph.D., C.N.M., R.N., director of the midwifery specialty, reflected on how nurse-midwifery has changed. Midwives have been attending births for thousands of years. “But in the ...
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