Kevin Roche – Page 696 – Healthy Skeptic

Oct 25 2011

LA Times

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Forming teams that can help the chronically or terminally ill has show tremendous benefit and is a growing field.

Oct 25 2011

Controlling Health Spending

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An Urban Institute report looks at the seemingly unsolvable problem of US health care spending growth, identifying four key potential causes and several solutions which might in total reduce spending…

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Oct 24 2011

Politico

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If the Supreme Court decides to review President Barack Obama’s health reform law, it will also have to choose which issues it wants to hear — and that decision could have a significant impact on the law’s final fate.

Oct 24 2011

HealthLeaders Media

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The final ACO regulations were issued with major concessions to the original plan. One of the critical changes: The rule no longer requires that 50% of participating physicians be meaningful users of electronic health records.

Oct 24 2011

KevinMD.com

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Advances in medicine and technology have improved medical outcomes, but have often resulted in more waiting at a time when every other aspect of life is speeding up

Oct 24 2011

Wall Street Journal

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The key provisions of the federal health overhaul take effect in 2014, including a requirement for most people to have health insurance; a ban on insurance companies considering individuals’ health status when they sell plans; and the creation of new health-coverage marketplaces called “exchanges.”

Oct 24 2011

Washington Post

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The Obama administration’s decision to pull the plug on a financially flawed long-term care insurance plan is likely to worsen a dilemma most middle-class families are totally unprepared for.

Oct 24 2011

Wall Street Journal

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Carl Icahn Takes Big Stake in WebMD

Oct 24 2011

HealthLeaders Media

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Perhaps you’re familiar with a two-tiered healthcare system. Under this model, the government provides a basic level of medically necessary healthcare, for which timeliness, and, some say, quality, are not guaranteed.

Oct 24 2011

HealthLeaders Media

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ACOs Seen As Tough Sell, Despite Concessions

Oct 24 2011

NPR.org

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Big-Name Drugs Are Falling Off The ‘Patent Cliff

Oct 24 2011

Insurance Market Competitiveness

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The Kaiser Foundation takes a look at the competitiveness of individual and small group health insurance markets on a state-by-state basis, finding that most are relatively concentrated. The report also…

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Oct 21 2011

New York Times

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After trying to mollify its critics in recent years by offering better health care benefits to its employees, Wal-Mart is substantially rolling back coverage for part-time workers and significantly raising premiums for many full-time staff

Oct 21 2011

Medpagetoday.com

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Primary Care Docs Urged to Cut Care Not ‘Medically Beneficial’

Oct 21 2011

Bloomberg

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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issued final rules today for so-called accountable care organizations for the elderly and disabled