Health Care Reform – Page 40 – Healthy Skeptic

Aug 09 2010

HealthLeaders Media

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Look for the AHA to try an end-run around Berwick to rescind the cuts through Congress. If they’re smart, they’ll ask the same representatives that signed their letters to come through for them again via legislation.

Aug 05 2010

Wall Street Journal

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Senate Majority Leader Reid responded today to a Missouri vote that Republicans call a rebuke to the sweeping new health law by saying voters like the legislation better the more they know more about it

Aug 05 2010

New York Times

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Missouri voters on Tuesday overwhelmingly approved a measure intended to nullify the new federal health care law

Aug 04 2010

Politico

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Don’t bother trying to count up the number of agencies, boards and commissions created under the new health care law. Estimating the number is “impossible,” a recent Congressional Research Service report says, and a true count “unknowable.”

Aug 04 2010

HealthLeaders Media

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

On July 30, CMS issued the inpatient prospective payment system (IPPS) final rule to update policies and rates for fiscal year (FY) 2011, which maintains long-standing CMS policy and implements some provisions of the PPACA

Aug 04 2010

New York Times

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Missouri voters on Tuesday easily approved a measure aimed at nullifying the new federal health care law, becoming the first state in the nation where ordinary people made known their dismay over the issue at the ballot box

Aug 04 2010

AP News

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Insurance coverage that starts on or after Sept. 23 will have to comply with new provisions that were put in place when President Barack Obama signed the health overhaul into law March 23.

Aug 03 2010

Massachusetts Reports

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments

Although its reform effort appears to have gone amok, largely for cost reasons, the state of Massachusetts is producing a lot of useful data and research on medical service delivery,…

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Aug 03 2010

Bloomberg

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WellPoint Inc., UnitedHealth Group Inc. and three other health insurers, criticized by Democrats during the overhaul debate, are seeking to influence how the new law will be implemented

Aug 03 2010

New York Times

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Consumers and policy makers will be crossing treacherous terrain as they make the transition to a new health care system in the next three and a half years.

Aug 03 2010

Politico

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Republicans may not be able to repeal the Democrats’ health care reform law next year, but they’re eyeing the next best thing: denying the Obama administration the money it needs to implement the law.

Aug 02 2010

Fiscal Times

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

The state-based pools provision is one of the high-profile features of the new health law taking effect this year. It allocates $5 billion to create plans to cover people who have been uninsured for at least six months and have a pre-existing health condition.

Aug 02 2010

Bloomberg

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Obamacare Only Gets Worse Upon Further Review: Commentary by Kevin Hassett

Aug 02 2010

Congressman Kevin Brady

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Four months after U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi famously declared “We have to pass the bill so you can find out what’s in it,”a congressional panel has released the first chart illustrating the 2,801 page health care law

Aug 02 2010

HealthLeaders Media

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Hospitals are still waiting for word from new CMS chief Donald Berwick on whether they will get relief from the proposed 2.9% reimbursement cut from Medicare, known as the “coding offset”

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