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Health Care Reform Articles - October 31, 2011

Lawyer Opposing Health Law Is Familiar Face to the Justices


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WASHINGTON — It would be hard for any lawyer to fathom a more riveting caseload than the one Paul D. Clement carried during his seven years in President George W. Bush’s Justice Department.
As solicitor general for three years and deputy solicitor for four, Mr. Clement appeared before the Supreme Court 49 times, defended the administration’s detention of terrorism suspects, fought off challenges to the McCain-Feingold campaign finance law and validated the prosecution of medical marijuana growers in a landmark commerce case.
But if possible, the docket that Mr. Clement has compiled in the private sector as one of Washington’s leading appellate litigators may situate him even closer to the center of national discourse.


Justices to consider health care suits soon

By Associated Press


WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court could decide as early as Nov. 10 whether to hear a challenge to President Obama’s health care overhaul this term.
Federal appeals court rulings on health care from Atlanta, Cincinnati, and Richmond are on the agenda for the justices’ private conference on Nov. 10.



OCTOBER 27, 2011, 12:53 PM

Spending More Doesn’t Make Us Healthier

By EZEKIEL J. EMANUEL
Ezekiel J. Emanuel on health policy and other topics.

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If you have heard it once, you have heard it hundreds of times. “The United States spends too much on health care.” This is not a partisan point. You can hear this from Republicans as well as Democrats. “We know that our families, our economy and our nation itself will not succeed in the 21st century if we continue to be held down by the weight of rapidly rising health care costs,” President Obama said in 2009. Representative Paul D. Ryan, Republican of Wisconsin, agrees: “There is no serious dispute — on either side of the aisle.”


October 27, 2011

Rise in Medicare Premium Is Lower Than Predicted


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WASHINGTON — Monthly Medicare premiums for most beneficiaries will rise next year by $3.50, to $99.90, a much smaller increase than had been expected, the Obama administration said Thursday.
Administration officials rejoiced at the modest increase, which could pay political dividends to President Obama as he tries to win the votes of older Americans in his bid for re-election.




7 More Insurers End Objections on Rate Filings

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In a competitive stampede toward transparency in health insurance premiums, seven more large carriers have dropped their objections to the public disclosure of their filings with New York State in support of rate increases.
The seven followed UnitedHealth/Oxford, which this week was the first to formally end a fight to keep the filings secret. Together, the eight insurers have 90 percent of the market of small group and individual insurance plans in the state.

Democrats drive drop in support for healthcare law in new poll

By Noam N. Levey
Washington Bureau
4:01 AM PDT, October 28, 2011
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-health-poll-20111027,0,5369490,print.story


Public Support Of Health Law Drops Sharply

TOPICS: POLITICS, HEALTH REFORM
By Jordan Rau
KHN Staff Writer
OCT 28, 2011
http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/Stories/2011/October/28/health-reform-poll-obama-kaiser-foundation.aspx



Considering When It Might Be Best Not to Know About Cancer


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After decades in which cancer screening was promoted as an unmitigated good, as the best — perhaps only — way for people to protect themselves from the ravages of a frightening disease, a pronounced shift is under way.
Now expert groups are proposing less screening for prostate, breast and cervical cancer and have emphasized that screening comes with harms as well as benefits.
Two years ago, the influential United States Preventive Services Task Force, which evaluates evidence and publishes screening guidelines, said that women in their 40s do not appear to benefit frommammograms and that women ages 50 to 74 should consider having them every two years instead of every year.
This year the group said the widely used P.S.A. screening test for prostate cancer does not save lives and causes enormous harm. It also concluded that most women should have Pap tests for cervical cancer every three years instead of every year.
What changed?
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Downside of Doctors Who Feel Your Pain

By LISA ROSENBAUM, M.D.
Published: October 31, 2011
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/01/health/views/the-downside-of-doctors-who-feel-your-pain.html?ref=health


October 28, 2011

Sports Medicine Said to Overuse M.R.I.’s

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Dr. James Andrews, a widely known sports medicine orthopedist in Gulf Breeze, Fla., wanted to test his suspicion that M.R.I.’s, the scans given to almost every injured athlete or casual exerciser, might be a bit misleading. So he scanned the shoulders of 31 perfectly healthy professional baseball pitchers.
The pitchers were not injured and had no pain. But the M.R.I.’s found abnormal shoulder cartilage in 90 percent of them and abnormal rotator cuff tendons in 87 percent. “If you want an excuse to operate on a pitcher’s throwing shoulder, just get an M.R.I.,” Dr. Andrewssays.
He and other eminent sports medicine specialists are taking a stand against what they see as the vast overuse of magnetic resonance imaging in their specialty.






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