Kevin Roche – Page 940 – Healthy Skeptic

May 07 2010

Wall Street Journal

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The morbidly obese—that is to say those with a BMI of more than 40, have increased in America by more than six times since 1960, and three times since 1990. They are now about 6% of adults.

May 07 2010

New York Times

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The government’s 240-page report, published online Thursday by the President’s Cancer Panel, says the proportion of cancer cases caused by environmental exposures has been “grossly underestimated.”

May 06 2010

Washington Times

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Eighteen states have officially declined to participate in the new high-risk insurance pools: Why would any state want to participate?

May 06 2010

Washington Times

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The massively disruptive reorganization of health insurance by the federal government is about to collide with state budgets, causing much collateral damage nationwide.

May 06 2010

Hospital Readmissions

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A study in JAMA explores hospital readmissions for Medicare beneficiaries, finding that there is significant variation in discharge planning and follow-up, and that early attention to care after discharge leads…

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May 06 2010

Yahoo Finance

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eHealthInsurance.com and eHealthMedicare.com, today announced that it has acquired privately-held PlanPrescriber, Inc. for approximately $28.7 million in cash

May 06 2010

Washington Post

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President Obama signed legislation Wednesday that significantly expands health services available to veterans

May 06 2010

Washington Times

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Obamacare is a series of assignments to bureaucrats in the Department of Health and Human Services. It is emblematic of what scholars call the administrative state

May 06 2010

Wall Street Journal

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Next spring we get the official report on how the nation collectively fared in reaching the goals included in Healthy People 2010, an every-decade governmental assessment of various health indicators.

May 06 2010

Healthcare IT News

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Pay-for-performance programs could increase medical disparities experienced by racial and ethnic minorities and people of low socioeconomic status

May 06 2010

Washington Times

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Where did this entitlement thinking come from? Only a generation ago, everyone expected to pay his or her own medical bills.

May 06 2010

Washington Times

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The mandated MLR may help facilitate tacit price collusion among health insurers by setting a common cost upon which a similar markup rate can be applied to determine premiums.

May 05 2010

New York Times

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The CLASS ACT underwent a number of changes during the health care debate – but here are some answers to some basic questions

May 05 2010

Wall Street Journal

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The Obama administration is urging state regulators and lawmakers to investigate whether WellPoint made mathematical errors in justifying sharp rate increases around the country.

May 05 2010

New York Times

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Health policy experts hope that electronic medical records becomes a tool for educating doctors about costs by providing doctors the price of tests and drugs when they are ordered

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