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Health Care Reform Articles - June 28, 2011

Canada May Have the Cure For US's Medicare Ailment

by: Paul Krugman, Krugman & Co. | Op-Ed
I keep hearing people say that Medicare in its current form is not sustainable in the United States, as if that were an established fact. It’s anything but.
What is Medicare? It’s single-payer coverage for the elderly.
http://www.truth-out.org/print/3346



June 26, 2011

U.S. Plans Stealth Survey on Access to Doctors




WASHINGTON — Alarmed by a shortage of primary care doctors, Obama administration officials are recruiting a team of “mystery shoppers” to pose as patients, call doctors’ offices and request appointments to see how difficult it is for people to get care when they need it.


Medicare: "Biggest Deficit Driver" or "Solution" to Economic Recovery?

by: Michele Swenson, Daily Kos [3] | Op-Ed



Biotech fights Medicare cost panel

Kerry is a target of lobbying effort

By Tracy Jan








Globe Staff / June 27, 2011




ADRIAN WALKER

A healthy dose of irony

By Adrian Walker
Globe Columnist / June 27, 2011
Mitt Romney deserves to simply take a bow for his role in bringing health care coverage to almost everyone in Massachusetts, and he knows it. If only politics were so simple.







June 27, 2011

New Drugs Fight Prostate Cancer, but at High Cost


A group of new drugs is promising to prolong the lives and relieve the symptoms of men with advanced prostate cancer, but could also add billions of dollars to the nation’s medical bills.



une 27, 2011

Concerns About Costs Rise With Hospices’ Use




As she surveyed patients’ charts, Nancy Romeo, a medical review auditor at a hospice company, was surprised by the resilience of those supposedly near death.
One patient admitted to hospice care in 2002 was still healthy enough in 2007 to stroll around his yard at home, she found. Another patient received hospice care for four years before the company for which Ms. Romeo worked, SouthernCare, determined she was not dying. “I looked at charts every day, and almost every chart was inappropriate,” said Ms. Romeo, a nurse.


Legislators vow bill to curb health care costs

By Liz Kowalczyk
Globe Staff / June 28, 2011
State legislative leaders made their strongest statements yet in support of placing significant cost controls on health care, predicting yesterday that they will agree on a bill as early as the fall.




ROBERT KUTTNER

RomneyCare vs. ObamaCare

REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL candidate Tim Pawlenty was right. While he backed away from the nice term he coined — ObamneyCare — the health reforms enacted by then-governor Mitt Romney in 2006 and President Obama in 2010 have much in common, although both would deny it.





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