Medicare Key To Conquering Deficit Dilemma : NPR
Judge Rejects Health Law Challenge
By KEVIN SACK
WASHINGTON — For the second time in two months, a federal judge has upheld the constitutionality of the new health care law, ruling on Tuesday that the requirement that most Americans obtain medical coverage falls within Congress’s authority to regulate interstate commerce.
Health Forum Sees Sacrifices For Doctors, Insurers
Health care costs can’t continue to rise rapidly without crippling the state’s economy and public services. But efforts to rein them in will require new team-based health care payment and delivery approaches, which would demand sacrifices from hospitals, doctors, and insurers.
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Reinhardt: Repeal Health Care, Make GOP Cut Costs
By JOHN GREENWALD, The Fiscal Times on Nov 28, 2010
Go ahead. Repeal health care reform.
That's what President Obama should tell Congressional Republicans, according to Princeton economist and health care expert Uwe E. Reinhardt. His logic: That way the GOP would have to come up with its own solutions to the health care cost crisis, many of which, he wagers, would look much like parts of the current law. "I think it would be a healthy thing," he says.
Maine May Help Shape Health Care Cost-Cutting
The state's early innovations on pay systems may guide national reforms, experts say at a forum.
PORTLAND — Congress passed national health care reform this year, but it will be up to Maine and the other states to figure out how to improve care and reduce costs.
Drug Maker Wrote Book Under 2 Doctors’ Names, Documents Say
By DUFF WILSON
Published: November 29, 2010
Two prominent authors of a 1999 book teaching family doctors how to treat psychiatric disorders provided acknowledgment in the preface for an “unrestricted educational grant” from a major pharmaceutical company.
From the book “Recognition and Treatment of Psychiatric Disorders: A Psychopharmacology Handbook for Primary Care.”
But the drug maker, then known as SmithKline Beecham, actually had much more involvement than the book described, newly disclosed documents show.
Opponents Take Aim at Limit
ed Health Plans
By REED ABELSON
Maybe something isn’t always better than nothing.
Or so went the argument offered by Senator John D. Rockefeller IV, the West Virginia Democrat, in a hearing on Wednesday about a controversial kind of health plan that seems destined to remain on the market for the next several years.
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Blue Shield, Kaiser among state insurers fined
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
State regulators Monday fined seven of California's largest health insurers nearly $5 million for systematically failing to pay doctors and hospitals fairly and on time.The California Department of Managed Health Care issued the fines following an 18-month audit in which investigators looked at a small but statistically significant sample of claims. The investigation found the plans were paying on average about 80 percent of the claims correctly, far below the legal threshold of 95 percent.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/11/30/BUSR1GJ01V.DTL&type=printable
Presidential Commission Urges Medicare, Other Health Care Cuts To Close Deficit — Bangor Daily News
WASHINGTON — The health care cuts proposed by President Barack Obama’s deficit commission would reach virtually every corner of society, making cost curbs in the new overhaul law look tame by comparison.
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