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By KaiserHealthNews on February 23rd, 2010
Full Text: Obama’s health care proposal
Plan includes insurance mandate and a promise to “end discrimination” from pre-existing conditions.
Category: Medicaid
By Debbie Elliott - NPR News on February 10th, 2010
As Congress shifts its focus to jobs, the uninsured seek solutions
Fernando Arriola, a contractor in New Orleans, can’t get coverage so he’s now working to set up a clinic for the uninsured.
By Christopher Weaver on February 04th, 2010
Government health spending to top private sector by 2012
Nation’s health spending as a share of the economy jumped in 2009 by 1.1 points to 17.3 percent, largest leap yet.
By Julie Appleby - KHN on February 02nd, 2010
States cutting back programs for uninsured
Sherie Brace of Seattle will lose insurance this summer when Washington is set to end coverage for her and 65,000 other low-income residents.
By KaiserHealthNews on January 04th, 2010
View: It’s time to coordinate care for the disabled and frail elderly
Organizing care is especially important for the frail elderly, who may have multiple chronic diseases.
By ProPublica on December 08th, 2009
What Health Care Reform Means for: Medicaid Recipients
Sarah Goodwin, 25, has chronic fatigue syndrome and relies on Medicaid for coverage.
By KaiserHealthNews on October 05th, 2009
Medicaid Explained
60 million receive benefits. Half are children. About one-quarter are elderly or disabled.
By KaiserHealthNews on August 31st, 2009
Why Seniors are Health Reform Winners, Not Losers
Opinion: In truth, seniors are likely to be big winners if responsible health reform passes and prime victims if it fails, says columnist Howard Gleckman of the Urban Insitute.
By admin on August 27th, 2009
Health in the news
Bed bug summit in Seattle. New York Times reporters discuss possible impact of Sen. Edward Kennedy’s death on the health-care debate.
By admin on August 25th, 2009
Children’s Advocates Fear Health Reform Could Undermine Children’s Health Insurance Program
By Mary Agnes Carey
As Democratic leaders pursue their quest to provide millions of Americans with health care insurance, some advocates see an unlikely casualty of reform: youngsters now covered by the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) whom they fear could end up with reduced benefits.
About 7 million children are insured under CHIP, which provides coverage [...]
By admin on August 24th, 2009
Health stories in the news
Unapproved hormone used to prevent premature births
Seattle Times health reporter Kyung Song writes in today’s issue of the paper about a program in which Washington state’s largest Medicaid contractor is promoting the use of a synthetic hormone that is thought to prevent premature births.
But the hormone, called 17P, has not been approved by the U.S. [...]
By admin on August 13th, 2009
Video: President Obama’s “Health Insurance Reform Town Hall” in Portsmouth, NH
President Obama Holds a Health Reform Town Hall in New Hampshire from White House on Vimeo.
President Obama holds a town hall in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, to address questions and concerns on health insurance reform. He talks about ending discrimination based on pre-existing conditions, and takes on some of the rumors about health reform. August 11, [...]
By admin on August 12th, 2009
Transcript of President Obama’s “Health Insurance Reform Town Hall”
The White House has released a transcript of President Barack Obama’s “Health Insurance Reform Town Hall” meeting held yesterday, August 11 at Portsmouth High School in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
To read it click on “Read more…”.
Transcript released by the White House:
THE PRESIDENT: Hello, Portsmouth! Thank you. (Applause.) Thank you so much. Everybody have a seat. [...]
By admin on August 11th, 2009
Health stories in the news
Teachers more likely to spank disabled children
More than 200,000 U.S. schoolchildren are spanked, paddled or subjected to some other form of corporal punishment each year with disabled children receiving a disproportionate share of such punishments, according to a report prepared by Human Rights Watch and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
“At least 41,972 students with [...]
By admin on August 11th, 2009
For Major Health Industry Players, Reform’s Positives Outweigh Negatives
By Phil Galewitz
August 11, 2009
When Congress and the White House began talking about a health care overhaul, the industries that profit from the $2.5 trillion system were understandably nervous.
But as the legislation takes shape, it appears much of the anxiety was misplaced. Most of the major health care players, including hospitals, health insurers and pharmaceutical [...]
By admin on August 10th, 2009
Bending the Curve Requires Health Care Reform, Not Just Sick Care Reform: A History Lesson
OPINION:
Joseph Califano, Chairman of the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA) at Columbia University
As President Obama and Congress struggle to bend the rising cost curve in order to make health care available to all Americans, the history of the first great expansion of health care coverage when Lyndon Johnson drove Medicare and Medicaid through [...]
By admin on August 08th, 2009
Opponents spread “outlandish” rumors about health reform, Obama says in weekly address
In his weekly address, President Barack Obama promises that health-care reform legislation will be passed by the end of the year and he charges that opponents of reform are spreading “the outlandish rumors that reform will promote euthanasia, cut Medicaid, or bring about a government takeover of health care.”
“As we draw close to finalizing – [...]
By Dr. Carolyn Clancy on August 07th, 2009
What is a ‘medical home” and is it right for you?
The concept of a “medical home”—a clinic where you are followed by a team of primary care providers who know you and can coordinate your care—is getting more attention these days. (See NPR’s story on Swedish Medical Center’s “medical home” program in Ballard below.)
Here Dr. Carolyn Clancy, director of the U.S. Agency for Healthcare [...]
By Michael McCarthy on August 07th, 2009
March 30 LHG story on Swedish Medical Center’s new “medical home” in Ballard
This is a reprint of an article we ran March 30th on LocalHealthGuide.
This week Swedish Medical Center opens a new primary-care clinic that will use the medical-home model of healthcare delivery.
Swedish officials believe the clinic, which will be located at its campus in Ballard, is the first in the country to be designed from [...]
By admin on July 21st, 2009
Health stories in the news – July 21
Continuous chemotherapy for some cancers?
New York Times reporter Andrew Pollack writes that some doctors and pharmaceutical companies are advocating treating patients with cancer continuously.
“That would be a departure from the common practice of stopping treatment when the cancer is under control and resuming it only if the cancer worsens,” Pollack writes.
Some doctors say such ”maintenance [...]
By admin on July 20th, 2009
FDA may require glucose monitors to be more accurate
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration may soon require glucose monitors used by more than 11 million diabetics in the U.S. to be more accurate, Gardiner Harris reports in the New York Times.
Under current standards, these monitors can be off by as much as 20 percent putting [...]
By admin on July 11th, 2009
“Partnership” Policies for Long-Term Care Hold Promise–and Pitfalls
By Michelle Andrews – Kaiser Health News
July 10, 2009
Joe Donahue’s mother Alice Donahue spent her last three years in a Connecticut nursing home, slowly succumbing to Alzheimer’s disease.
Her three sons, who lived nearby in central Connecticut, visited regularly. By the time she died in 1990 at age 86, her modest estate—about $200,000 all told–had succumbed [...]
By admin on July 08th, 2009
What’s behind hospitals’ $155 billion healthcare-reform deal with the Obama administration?
Hospitals, After Agreeing to Cuts, Push Ahead With a Full Agenda
By Eric Pianin and Phil Galewitz – Kaiser Health News
July 08, 2009
With the Obama administration’s help, hospitals are moving aggressively to resolve their biggest objections to legislative proposals to overhaul the health system.
The deal announced today by Vice-President Biden — an agreement with the White [...]
By admin on July 06th, 2009
Health stories in the news – July 6
Health reform is within reach says New York Times columnist
New York Times columnist and Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman cites the latest analysis by the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to back his claim that substantive health reform is within reach of Congress this summer.
“…last week the budget office scored the full proposed legislation from [...]
By admin on July 02nd, 2009
Test your knowledge of Medicaid: True or False?
Which is larger: Medicaid or Medicare?
In fact, Medicaid “dwarfs other insurance programs” writes Kaiser Health News reporter Phil Galewitz.
To learn more, take his Medicaid: True of False test below:
Medicaid: True or False?
By Phil Galewitz – Kaiser Health News
July 01, 2009
Because of its size and cost, Medicaid has been called the “workhorse” of the U.S. health [...]
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