U.S. Panel Says No to Prostate Screening for Healthy Men
By GARDINER HARRIS
Healthy men should no longer receive a P.S.A. blood test to screen for prostate cancer because the test does not save lives over all and often leads to more tests and treatments that needlessly cause pain, impotence and incontinence in many, a key government health panel has decided.
The draft recommendation, by the United States Preventive Services Task Force and due for official release next week, is based on the results of five well-controlled clinical trials and could substantially change the care given to men 50 and older. There are 44 million such men in the United States, and 33 million of them have already had aP.S.A. test — sometimes without their knowledge — during routine physicals.
Confronting the Malefactors
By PAUL KRUGMAN
There’s something happening here. What it is ain’t exactly clear, but we may, at long last, be seeing the rise of a popular movement that, unlike the Tea Party, is angry at the right people.
When the Occupy Wall Street protests began three weeks ago, most news organizations were derisive if they deigned to mention the events at all. For example, nine days into the protests, National Public Radio had provided no coverage whatsoever.
It is, therefore, a testament to the passion of those involved that the protests not only continued but grew, eventually becoming too big to ignore. With unions and a growing number of Democrats now expressing at least qualified support for the protesters, Occupy Wall Street is starting to look like an important event that might even eventually be seen as a turning point.
Health-care executive’s Medicare fraud scheme included lobbying Washington
By Dan Eggen,
Miami health-care executive Larry Duran orchestrated one of the largest Medicare frauds in U.S. history, submitting more than $205 million in phony claims and landing a record-breaking 50-year prison sentence for his crimes.http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/health-executive-lobbied-in-washington-to-advance-medicare-fraud-scheme/2011/09/28/gIQA7dRXNL_print.html
Healthcare reform law: What's the big deal?
There really is no such thing as an individual health insurance mandate. Let's stop suggesting otherwise, and start referring to the individual health insurance incentive.
By William D. LeachOctober 7, 2011
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-leach-health-care-indvidual-mandate-20111007,0,831858,print.story
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