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• One more victim of Medicaid and employer-based insurance

  
  Independence Institute: Patient Power — Authority: 131
  John R. Graham of the Pacific Research Institute offers a great critique of Nicholas D. Kristof’s recent New York Times column .  Kristof relates a distressing story about a John Brodniak, who lost his job due to illness, exhausted his COBRA benefits, and ended up on Medicaid .   Yet, Kristof reaches an ...
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• HealthPlus Launches New Medicare Advantage Plans

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 700
  HealthPlus of Michigan announced the launch of two new HealthPlus MedicarePlus plans designed for Medicare-eligible people looking for affordable benefit choices and convenient access to quality health care. HealthPlus Medicare plans are the highest-ranked Medicare plans in Michigan, according to the "Americas Best ...
  1 day ago

• Experts Call For Greater Crackdown On Medicare Fraud

  
  disabilityresourcelinks.com — Authority: 150
    Experts Call For Greater Crackdown On Medicare Fraud
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• Todays Opinions And Editorials

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 700
  Dont Rationalize Busting The Budget - Start Over Kaiser Health News You would be hard pressed to find any health policy expert who isnt disappointed that cost containment has fallen off the health care "reform" express (Robert Laszewski, 11/25).
  6 days ago

• Fact Checks Examine Various Health Care Reform Claims

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 700
  News outlets provide a variety of fact checks on health care reform. The Christian Science Monitor reports on four key issues - a public option, raising taxes and cutting costs, individual mandates and abortion - that may become points of major differences when expected debate begins Nov. 30 on the Senate bill.
  6 days ago

• Experts Call For Greater Crackdown On Medicare Fraud

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 700
  Efforts to crack down on Medicare fraud heat up while some experts say more should be done. Reuters reports that the "The Justice Department and Department of Health and Human Services launched a special strike force in Miami in 2007 to combat Medicare fraud in South Florida and similar units have been ...
  6 days ago

• Health Reform Financing Ideas Watered Down, Questions Remain On Premiums, Taxes

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 700
  The New York Times reports that while the Senate health bill "includes nearly every big idea that health economists and medical researchers have for slowing cost growth - as well as for improving the patchwork quality of American health care, ... many of the ideas, like the rule on Medicare reimbursement, have been at ...
  6 days ago

• Hospital Officials Report Job Cuts, Concern About Possible Effects Of Reform

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 700
  Several news outlets find that hospital executives are worried about their facilities finances, and for a Chicago hospital the prospect of health care reform brings even more concerns.
  1 week ago

• KHN Column: Answers From Iowa

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 700
  In this Kaiser Health News column, Michael L. Millenson writes about insights one could gain from paying attention to whats happening in Iowa. "The Des Moines home of the Chicago Cubs AAA farm team boasts of being one of the top minor league facilities in the country.
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• Uninsured children

  
  Larry James' Urban Daily — Authority: 131
  This from a recent Johns Hopkins study: Using more than 23 million hospital records from 37 states between 1988 and 2005, the Johns Hopkins investigators compared the risk of death in children with insurance and in those without. Other factors being equal, researchers found that uninsured children in the study were ...
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• New Medicare Rules On Home-Oxygen Affect Patients, Businesses

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 700
  The Wall Street Journal: "New Medicare rules designed to reduce waste and fraud in medical-equipment reimbursements are driving some home-oxygen suppliers out of business and leaving patients scrambling to find new providers.
  1 week ago

• Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act Of 2009

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 700
  Statement by APTA President R. Scott Ward, PT, PhD The American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) applauds the US House of Representatives for taking recent action to ensure that Americas seniors and people with disabilities have access to high quality care rehabilitative services.
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• Public Opinion Has Changed Since Clinton Tried Health Care Reform

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 700
  Public opinions have changed since President Bill Clinton tried to reform the health care system more than a a decade ago. USA Today reports that "the years since Clintons failed effort have seen the cost of medical services nearly double and softened some of the skepticism voiced by Americans in 1993 and 1994.
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• House Moves To Block Doctors Medicare Pay Cuts

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 700
  The House voted largely along party lines Thursday to permanently end annual cuts in doctors Medicare payments, which the Congress has temporarily averted from year to year, the Associated Press reports.
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• GOP And Industry Groups Quick To Decry Senate Health Bill

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 700
  When Senate Democrats unveiled a bill meant to expand health coverage and restrain spending growth, "Republicans saw little to like," The Associated Press reports. GOP senators characterized the package Thursday "as a collection of tax increases, Medicare cuts and heavy new burdens for deficit-ridden states.
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• Health Policy Research Roundup

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 700
  Urban Institute: Progress Enrolling Children in Medicaid/CHIP: Who Is Left And What Are The Prospects For Covering More Children? - This policy brief examines the characteristics of the estimated 5 million uninsured children who are eligible for CHIP/Medicaid in 2007 (64 percent of all uninsured children; 88 percent ...
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• Government health care cost overruns

  
  Independence Institute: Patient Power — Authority: 131
  Harry Reid’s Senate health bill up for a procedural vote on Saturday, which could allow it to move forward to debate. (Yet Republicans are pushing to read the whole thing , which could take 34 hours!) In any case, be wary of how this bill will cut the deficit: remember how unreliable predictions of how much new ...
  1 week ago

• Pelosi Statement On House Passage Of Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 700
  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued the following statement on legislation that would permanently reform the broken Medicare physician payment system. The Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act, which passed by a vote of 243 to 183, repeals a 21 percent fee reduction scheduled for January 2010, and replaces the physician ...
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• Statement By Medicare Rights Center President Joe Baker On The House Vote To Repeal Medicare Pay Cuts For Doctors

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 700
  Todays vote by the House of Representatives is an important step toward repealing the 21.5 percent Medicare pay cut for doctors set to take effect next year, and moves to stabilize Medicares payment system for doctors for the long term. People with Medicare must be able to maintain relationships with the doctors they ...
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• A Look At How Key Provisions Compare In The House And Senate Bills

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 700
  The New York Times reports that "the health care proposals from the House and the Senate are broadly similar but differ on some major issues." It reports on five issues - the public plan, employer contribution, abortion, illegal immigrants and financing - and puts differences in bold type (11/19).
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