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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”

 

• Most Individual Polices Would Not Meet Affordable Care Act Standards

  
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  More than 11 million Americans below the age of 65 are now covered by private individual health insurance plans. A new study, released yesterday by Health Affairs as a Web First, measures the actuarial value (the percentage of medical bills an insurance company pays) for a sample of 2010 health plans offering group ...
  4 days ago

• And, in donut news…

  
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  The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a press release this morning with new numbers on just how much seniors and people with disabilities in Medicare have saved as a result of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Since the law was enacted, back in March 2010, 5.1 million Medicare enrollees who hit the ...
  4 days ago

• Health Care Economics 101 And The Supreme Court

  
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  Editor’s note: Kathryn Gilbert, a J.D. candidate at the University of Michigan Law School, is a coauthor of this post, in addition to Jill Horwitz and Helen Levy (photos and linked bios above). The case that will decide the fate of the most important piece of health care legislation in the past fifty years has, [...]
  5 days ago

• A.M. Vitals: Anticipating the Health Law Ruling

  
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  Heres whats making health news this morning:
  5 days ago

• ME Anti-GOP Health Ins Reform Groups Hold Single-Payer Rally

  
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  The characters who worked to prevent LD 1333/PL 90 from happening are supporters of government run, socialized medicine. Read More Join/Start the AMG Discussion read more
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• McConnell Jabs Obama Ad Campaign

  
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  GOP Senate Leader rips POTUS on $20 million ad campaign promoting benefits of health reform. McConnell: “Let me suggest that the president spend a little more time trying to do something about the spending, debt and gas prices and a little less time trying to spin the unpopular things he’s already done."
  6 days ago

• Mr Ponnuru notes that Mittens is stuck between the devil and the deep blue sea. He suggests a flying leap into the unknown.

  
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  Ramesh Ponnuru, a senior editor for the conservative magazine National Journal, has an interesting take on Mittens health care ideas . He basically wants Mittens to go for a tax credit for insurance instead of a deduction. The difference is significant - a tax deduction reduces the income you have to pay taxes on, ...
  6 days ago

• The Pan Am Bomber – a Side Effect of his Treatment

  
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  The recent death of Abdel Baset al Megrahi, the convicted Lockerbie bomber, three years after his release from prison in Scotland has drawn an interesting Wall Street Journal editorial explaining why he lived so long after the initial prognosis that he only had three months to live. According to the Journal, the ...
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• Six Strategic Variables In Predicting The Impact Of Accountable Care

  
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  As Integrated Delivery Networks (IDNs) assess the financial implications of accountable care, six key variables deserve special attention. These variables are unique because they will shape both the accuracy of future financial projections and begin to set the broader strategy for the ACO. Variable 1: The Halo Effect. ...
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• Here’s Something I Didn’t Know

  
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  This is courtesy of Chris Jacobs : The Medicaid program is so bad that not a single Democrat voted to place themselves in the program when given an opportunity to do so back in 2010. And there’s more: ObamaCare will expand Medicaid – without reforming the program. According to the Administration’s ...
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• Why Priscilla Chan may become the country’s most influential doctor

  
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  Who has the potential to be the most influential physician of our generation? It’s Priscilla Chan , who not only recently graduated from medical school, but also married Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. When I brought this up on Twitter, someone responded that it was “disappointing at the same time. I’m ...
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• Nerd alert: New health data available!

  
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  If you’re like any normal, warm-blooded American, or at least one who subscribes to a health policy blog, you probably really like charts and graphs and numbers. Well, it turns out you’re in luck! The US Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) has just launched a new Health System Measurement Project ...
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• Buying Health Insurance across State Lines

  
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  Last year, Georgia became the first state to allow insurers licensed in other states (and subject to other states’ mandates and regulations) to sell insurance in Georgia. But so far, no insurer has even applied. Why is that? In an exchange between Richard Unger and Michael Cannon , Unger comes across as a general ...
  1 week ago

• Why physicians are susceptible to hardball tactics

  
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  I was invited to a medical staff leadership conference sponsored by our hospital. A company specializing in training physician leaders ran the meeting. The topic was healthcare reform and its effect on hospitals and physicians. Included were discussions on patient-centered medical homes, accountable care ...
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• The filibuster is why we can’t have nice things

  
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  What If There Was No Filibuster? Joshua Green : “Let’s take only the Obama presidency. Had the filibuster not applied, the United States would have a market-based system to control carbon emissions, which would limit the damage from global warming, vitalize the clean technology sector, and challenge other ...
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• What should America’s health care vision be?

  
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  America has this paradox of excellent biomedical science, innovative drug manufacturers and entrepreneurial device developers along with outstanding providers but at the same time has a dysfunctional care delivery system. A new vision is needed. Vision is a leadership concept that presents an idea, garners support ...
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• Implementing Health Reform: The Premium Tax Credit Final Rule

  
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  At the heart of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) health care reforms are the premium tax credits, which will extend health insurance coverage to 18 million lower and middle-income Americans.  The idea of using tax credits to purchase private health insurance for the uninsured is one of a number of the historically ...
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• Feds set deadline for state exchange proposals

  
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  States intending to operate health-insurance exchanges in 2014 must submit proposals by Nov. 16, the Obama administration announced this week (Source: “ Insurance-exchange deadline set ,” Columbus Dispatch, May 17, 2012) According to new guidance released by HHS (pdf, 45 pages), states seeking to operate a ...
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• How The ACA Would Have Cut 2001-08 Out-Of-Pocket Spending Under Individual Coverage

  
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  Currently, individual health insurance typically has less generous benefits than employment-related insurance. However, under the Affordable Care Act, individual insurance will probably become more generous and more like employment-related insurance. For a Health Affairs May 16 Web First study, Steven Hill of the ...
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• Taylor v. Feldstein: Comparing Catastrophic Plans

  
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  I have been blogging about the path to a health reform deal that I offer in my book: universal catastrophic coverage implemented via Medicare. Martin Feldstein, chair of the Council of Economic Advisors under President Reagan, offered a universal catastrophic coverage proposal in October, 2009, that would: provide ...
  1 week ago

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