Health Care Reform – Page 42 – Healthy Skeptic

Jul 20 2010

Washington Post

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Starting this fall, changes under the health-care overhaul will take some of the worry out of emergency room visits

Jul 19 2010

Boston Globe

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The relentlessly rising cost of health insurance is prompting some small Massachusetts companies to drop coverage for their workers

Jul 19 2010

New York Times

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The Obama administration and its allies now defend the requirement as an exercise of the government’s “power to lay and collect taxes.”

Jul 19 2010

Washington Post

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Massachusetts – aside from squeezing take-home pay (employers provide almost 70 percent of insurance), higher costs have automatically shifted government priorities toward health care and away from everything else

Jul 15 2010

Kaiser Health News

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Under the new health care overhaul law, insurers will be required to pay fully for services that get an “A” or “B” recommendation from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force – good news for patients but it puts the group in the cross-hairs of lobbyists

Jul 14 2010

Wall Street Journal

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The Obama administration on Wednesday will unveil new rules specifying which preventive health services will be free to consumers under the new health law.

Jul 14 2010

Ethiopian News

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ZocDoc, a New York-based provider of physician finder and appointment booking services, has raised $15 million in Series B funding

Jul 13 2010

Politico

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A handful of states that have begun accepting applications for their new federally funded high-risk health insurance pools have seen a slow trickle of enrollees but expect a bigger wave as word spreads about the option

Jul 10 2010

2010 Potpourri XXIV

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments

Sitting indoors seeking relief from the summer heat? Here's a montage of cool and refreshing health care items, including CPOE systems, accountable care organizations, Massachusetts' reform experience, reducing imaging, and…

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Jul 09 2010

Washington Post

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The new federal health-care law may pose compliance challenges for taxpayers and the Internal Revenue Service, an IRS ombudsman said

Jul 09 2010

Kaiser Health News

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Several lesser-known provisions also take effect in coming months that could have a lasting impact on the nation’s health care system

Jul 08 2010

Washington Post

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Medicaid will expand by at least 16 million people as eligibility is raised in 2014 to a new nationwide standard of 133 percent of the poverty level. The surge in enrollment will be highest in states in the South and West

Jul 08 2010

Bloomberg

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HealthCare.gov is the U.S. government’s effort to help consumers understand how they’ll be affected by the 907-page health overhaul signed into law three months ago

Jul 08 2010

AP News

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Missouri Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder filed a lawsuit Wednesday over the federal health care overhaul, accusing Congress of overstepping its authority

Jul 07 2010

Wall Street Journal

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Obama said earlier this year that the health-care bill that Congress passed three months ago is “essentially identical” to the Massachusetts universal coverage plan – which is a damning indictment of ObamaCare

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