Health Care Reform – Page 39 – Healthy Skeptic

Aug 17 2010

Kaiser Health News

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

The biggest losers in federal health care reform — the country’s physician-owned specialty hospitals — are on pins and needles

Aug 16 2010

New York Times

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Faced with the need to review insurance rates and enforce a panoply of new rights granted to consumers, states are scrambling to make sure they have the necessary legal authority to carry out the responsibilities being placed on them by health care law.

Aug 16 2010

Wall Street Journal

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Add Colorado to the list of states that are saying to ObamaCare: not here, thank you.

Aug 16 2010

Kaiser Health News

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

The House voted Tuesday to send money to the states – most of it to prevent the states from cutting off health benefits for millions. If that doesn’t strike you as strange, perhaps you weren’t paying attention to last year’s health care debate.

Aug 16 2010

Washington Post

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Are bigger health-care networks better or just creating a monopoly?

Aug 16 2010

Reuters

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The federally funded risk pools offer subsidized coverage until 2014, when the broader state-run insurance exchanges are due to go into effect and insurance companies can no longer deny coverage to people with pre-existing conditions.

Aug 13 2010

USA Today

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The new health overhaul law aims to end all annual dollar limits on health insurance policies by 2014. Federal regulators contend such limits can leave policyholders “virtually uninsured” for the rest of the year once caps are hit

Aug 13 2010

Wall Street Journal

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What counts as a “federal tax” in insurer-land? That’s the latest question facing regulators charged with turning the health-care overhaul law into actual rules.

Aug 12 2010

The Hill

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Health plans will lobby lawmakers and regulators over the August recess for greater flexibility to avoid some provisions of the healthcare reform law

Aug 12 2010

New York Times

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“Roadmap for America’s Future,” is an unusually austere proposal to vanquish the federal debt by, among other things, partly dismantling Social Security and Medicare as they currently exist

Aug 12 2010

USA Today

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True or false: The new health care law will cut Medicare benefits for seniors. It will slash Medicare payments to doctors. It will ration health care.

Aug 11 2010

Accountable Care Organizations

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments

A Health Affairs/Robert Wood Johnson Issue Brief examines the accountable care organization concept, particularly as embodied in the recent federal health legislation. While there may be potential, as ACOs are…

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Aug 10 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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Thousands of nurses and geriatric specialists—many of them minorities—will be trained for the provider workforce under $159.1 million in federal grants under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

Aug 10 2010

Kaiser Health News

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Medicare beneficiaries will be able to receive for free all preventive services and screenings that receive an A or B recommendation for seniors from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force.

Aug 10 2010

NPR

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Interview with Virginia Attorney General a week after a federal court refused to dismiss Cuccinelli’s suit against the new federal health care law

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