Transplants Cut, Arizona Is Challenged by Survivors
By MARC LACEY
PHOENIX — First, it was distraught patients awaiting organ transplants who protested Arizona’s decision to no longer cover such operations under its Medicaid program.
Now, Arizonans who received such transplants, and are alive and well as a result of them, are questioning the data that lawmakers relied on to make their controversial benefit cuts.
The Supreme Court and Obama’s Health Care Law
By JOHN SCHWARTZ
When it comes to the future of the Obama administration’s health care plan, the judicial math can seem simple.
So far in three lawsuits against the plan, two federal judges appointed by Democrats have upheld the law; one Republican-appointed judge has declared an important part of it unconstitutional. Use party as your measure, send the cases up the appeals ladder, and you quickly get to a 5-4 decision at the Supreme Court: the justices appointed by Republican presidents will vote to strike down the law. Game over, thanks for playing.
Daniel Ellsberg, Ray McGovern, Margaret Flowers Speak Before Their Arrests At White House Protest
(Margaret Flowers is one of the "Baucus 13)
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Daniel-Ellsberg-Ray-McGov-by-Rob-Kall-101218-333.html
(Margaret Flowers is one of the "Baucus 13)
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Daniel-Ellsberg-Ray-McGov-by-Rob-Kall-101218-333.html
Senator Sanders's Socialism - Nancy Folbre
Nancy Folbre is an economics professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
When the rumpled, plain-spoken Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont spoke virtually nonstop for more than eight hours on Dec. 10 to explain his opposition to tax cuts for the rich, he quickly became a YouTubeand Twitter celebrity.
A Doctor’s Mammogram Mission Turns Personal
Dr. Marisa Weiss scheduled her mammogram this spring, just as she does every year. She had just turned 51, and after having annual scans for a decade, she knew what to expect: her dense breast tissue made reading the films difficult — “like looking for a polar bear in a blizzard” — and the technician would probably ask her to sit for a few extra views.
This year was different. After Dr. Weiss went home, she got a call from the doctor’s office.
“They said, ‘Can you come back, now?’ ” she recalled. “I said I’d prefer not to, and they said, ‘Are you sure?’ And I realized at that moment that it was more serious.”
I Know Not - NYTimes.com
KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA — When I was a wide-eyed medical student, I looked forward to taking the Hippocratic Oath at my graduation. Sadly it was not to be. In fact, contrary to popular belief, the Hippocratic Oath is not required by most medical schools.
It would have been the height of cool to have sworn by Apollo, Asclepius, Hygieia and Panacea. Apollo was the Greek god of healing, truth and prophecy. Asclepius was the son of Apollo and he too was in the business of healing and medicine. Both Hygieia and Panacea were the daughters of Asclepius and by birthright were goddesses. They were the first family of physicians and it would have been fitting to have their blessings during our rite of passage.
Death By Enlarged Prostate? It Almost Happened To Him
William Siewert almost died from an enlarged prostate.
Not prostate cancer, just a “benign” enlarged prostate. He is yet another example of the people who fall victim to our currently broken health care system. He agreed to share his story in the hope that someday cases like his would be rare exceptions.
Mr. Siewert, a 61-year-old native of San Francisco, had been living in Idaho for the past 10 years to care for his disabled girlfriend. He had to give up his job as a truck driver — and along with it, his medical insurance — but he did so willingly so his girlfriend could remain in her home as long as possible.
Blue Cross Antitrust Suit In Michigan Will Test Premise Of Health Law
DETROIT — When the Justice Department filed an antitrust lawsuit against Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan in October, the unusual action was widely seen as a warning shot to dominant health insurancecarriers in many other states.
The case is viewed as a test for the Obama administration’s introduction of the federal health care law, which is aimed at spurring competition and driving down costs.
Health Chief To Take On Medicaid
Longtime state public health director Dr. Dora Anne Mills will help implement reforms that she hopes will lower MaineCare costs.
Dr. Dora Anne Mills is leaving her longtime post as Maine's public health director to help reform MaineCare, the state's Medicaid health insurance program for low-income and disabled residents.
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