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Thursday, April 18, 2013 |
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'Grand Bargain' Cuts Hospital Support $18B
By Heritage Foundation @ 10:34 AM :: 3041 Views :: Health Care
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...They are now trying to convince governors and state legislators that a series of state-level “grand bargains” could produce “savings“ in exchange for expanding Medicaid....
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Wednesday, April 17, 2013 |
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Obamacare Tax Credits Target 70,000 Hawaii Households
By News Release @ 10:59 PM :: 4609 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care
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Meanwhile ... Hawaii Health Insurance Rates to Rise 12% to 21% Next Year....
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Tuesday, April 16, 2013 |
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Young Adults on Parents' Health Plans Cost More
By NCPA @ 3:34 PM :: 2992 Views :: Health Care
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Under the Affordable Care Act, children up to the age of 26 years can stay on their parents' health insurance plan....
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Tuesday, April 16, 2013 |
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Hawaii Suspends TB Test Requirement for Food Handlers
By Selected News Articles @ 3:00 AM :: 4246 Views :: Health Care
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In a typical year, Hawaii conducts about 50,000 tuberculosis skin tests and treats 120 people found to be carrying the bacteria. The state anticipates suspensions of TB clearances to last for 120 days....
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Monday, April 15, 2013 |
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Emergency Services Briefing: Lack of Emergency Rooms in West Oahu
By News Release @ 2:40 PM :: 4164 Views :: Health Care
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...two City Councilmembers will host a briefing with hospital officials and emergency responders, who will report the availability of emergency rooms in the Ewa region....
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Monday, April 15, 2013 |
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Cost of Health Insurance Exchanges Shoots Up
By NCPA @ 2:22 PM :: 2838 Views :: Health Care
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As installation of the exchanges becomes more complicated, the cost of the exchanges has risen rapidly over the last year....
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Thursday, April 11, 2013 |
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Temporary insurance program foreshadows exploding costs for ObamaCare
By Selected News Articles @ 9:59 AM :: 3444 Views :: Health Care
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An early ObamaCare health insurance program that has been operating for nearly three years is foreshadowing big problems to come....
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Monday, April 8, 2013 |
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Feds Give Hawaii Health Connector $128M to Pay for Overhead
By News Release @ 10:59 AM :: 5388 Views :: Health Care
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This award will fund the customer service call center, consumer assistance program and general maintenance and operations of the Connector through December 2014....
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Sunday, April 7, 2013 |
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Creative Insolvency: EUTF to Enter ‘Shadow Insurance Industry’?
By Andrew Walden @ 1:36 PM :: 9149 Views :: Health Care, Labor
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...a multi-billion dollar scheme to rework Hawaii government employees pension and health insurance funding is made its way through the legislature....
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Friday, April 5, 2013 |
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Civilian Doctors Wary of Accepting Military's TRICARE
By NCPA @ 11:16 AM :: 3850 Views :: Health Care
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An estimated 620,000 Pentagon health care recipients struggle to find private doctors who will accept them as patients ....
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Wednesday, March 27, 2013 |
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Hawaii Health Insurance Rates to Rise 12% to 21% Next Year
By Andrew Walden @ 1:39 PM :: 7934 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care
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“the costs shown in the tables are at projected 2014 levels”
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Friday, March 22, 2013 |
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Thanks to Obamacare…
By Heritage Foundation @ 6:57 PM :: 4029 Views :: Health Care
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...Please share these impacts to mark three years of this bureaucratic nightmare....
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Thursday, March 21, 2013 |
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Compassionate Care Versus Religious Freedom
By Hawaii Family Forum @ 7:04 PM :: 6368 Views :: Health Care, Life
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HB 411 HD2 and SB 1109 SD2. HFF, HCC and HFA all testified in opposition to the bills because no conscience provisions are included....
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Thursday, March 21, 2013 |
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AARP: Health Connector Transparency Legislation Did Not Pass
By News Release @ 1:17 AM :: 5395 Views :: Health Care
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"AARP opposes the appropriation of State funds for the operation of the Connector in 2015"
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Wednesday, March 20, 2013 |
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ObamaCare: Drastic Payment Cuts or Ballooning Deficit
By NCPA @ 2:26 PM :: 3324 Views :: Health Care
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If Congress alters the health care law's payment cuts to doctors and hospitals, costs could skyrocket....
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Tuesday, March 19, 2013 |
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Hawaii Scores ‘F’ on Health Care Price Transparency Laws
By NCPA @ 2:36 PM :: 5753 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care
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Hawaii Does Not Have A Single Health Care Price Transparency Law....
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Monday, March 18, 2013 |
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Affordable Care Act Application Long and Cumbersome
By NCPA @ 3:18 PM :: 3431 Views :: Health Care
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Emerging new details about the application process for the Affordable Care Act (ACA) suggest that applying for benefits will be an onerous and grueling process....
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Thursday, March 14, 2013 |
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Medicaid Expansion Is the Wrong Move
By NCPA @ 1:59 PM :: 3297 Views :: Health Care
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By 2021, 46 percent of all Americans will be dependent on the government for their health care....
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Wednesday, March 13, 2013 |
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Many Patients Object to Focusing on Costs
By NCPA @ 3:37 PM :: 3074 Views :: Health Care
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The study shows that many patients believe that medical decisions should not consider financial costs but only consider health....
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Wednesday, March 13, 2013 |
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Obamacare's Medicaid Trap
By Heritage Foundation @ 3:21 PM :: 3989 Views :: Health Care
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While Members of Congress are arguing about defunding parts of Obamacare, the rubber is meeting the road in the states....
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Tuesday, March 12, 2013 |
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Medicare Advantage Cuts under ObamaCare Will Affect Low-Income Seniors Most
By NCPA @ 3:44 PM :: 4556 Views :: Health Care
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Low-income seniors will see an estimated 7 percent to 8 percent reduction in their Medicare Advantage benefits in 2014....
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Monday, March 11, 2013 |
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RFP: Hawaii Health Connector Seeks Seamless Customer Experience
By News Release @ 7:28 PM :: 4703 Views :: Health Care
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The nonprofit State-based Exchange is seeking a customer service partner that knows how to service Hawai‘i’s residents, and that can bring strong capabilities that will enable a seamless customer experience....
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Monday, March 11, 2013 |
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Naming Names: Big Pharma Pays $3.2M to Hawaii MDs
By Selected News Articles @ 4:46 PM :: 7351 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care, Drugs
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Drug companies have long kept secret details of the payments they make to doctors and other health professionals for promoting their drugs....
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Friday, March 8, 2013 |
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ObamaCare Insurance Plans Will Be Bare Bones – And Expensive
By NCPA @ 2:26 PM :: 3422 Views :: Health Care
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In the 1990s, insurance schemes pushed managed care and restricted networks. Some evidence suggests that insurance plans under the Affordable Care Act will be equally restrictive and paltry....
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Wednesday, March 6, 2013 |
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Forced Participation in Abortion: Nine Legislators Take a Stand for Religious Freedom
By Hawaii Family Forum @ 9:01 PM :: 6918 Views :: Ethics, First Amendment, Health Care
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Both bills state in the preamble that the emergency contraceptive "is not an abortion pill" and "is not an abortifacient." That seemingly simple, and untrue statement, nullifies any protection that a federal conscience exemption might have provided....
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Monday, March 4, 2013 |
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HB411 Forces Hospitals, Doctors to Hand Out Abortion Pill
By Hawaii Family Forum @ 10:30 PM :: 5432 Views :: First Amendment, Health Care
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The hearing was full of people who are against religious freedom. One individual even stated that if Christians have a problem with it, they shouldn’t work in an emergency room....
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Thursday, February 28, 2013 |
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Gallup: Hawaii Again Tops Nation in Well-Being
By Selected News Articles @ 2:41 PM :: 10033 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care, Labor, Cost of Living
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Between 2011 and 2012 Hawaii jumped from 44th to 1st in “Work Environment” but fell from 4th to 14th in “Basic Access"....
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Wednesday, February 27, 2013 |
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What is a Progressive?
By John Goodman @ 1:37 PM :: 6250 Views :: National News, Health Care
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...liberalism is not an ideology at all; it is a sociology. The same may be said of conservatism....
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Tuesday, February 26, 2013 |
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Hawaii Welfare Recipients 2nd Healthiest in US: 75% Not Disabled
By Selected News Articles @ 11:56 PM :: 6238 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care
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SSI, SNAP, Medicaid, TANF, or other government assistance....
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Tuesday, February 26, 2013 |
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Hawaii Nursing Homes Ranked by US News
By Selected News Articles @ 11:37 PM :: 6399 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care
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About 38 percent of all nursing homes in Hawaii earned an overall five-star rating....
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Tuesday, February 26, 2013 |
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OHA Offers Cash Prizes for Weight Loss
By News Release @ 1:21 PM :: 6575 Views :: Health Care, OHA
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What they aren't telling you is that people with obesity and/or diabetes are going to lose out big under the Hawaii Health Exchange and the 'Pay for Performance' plans being negotiated between Hawaii hospitals and Hawaii Insurers....
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Monday, February 25, 2013 |
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The Numbers Don’t Match: Obama vs Harkin on Hawaii Sequester Impact
By Andrew Walden @ 11:39 PM :: 11945 Views :: Education K-12, National News, Economy, Hawaii Statistics, Health Care
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Here is a point-by-point comparison of the White House numbers for Hawaii and Sen. Harkin’s numbers for Hawaii.
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Monday, February 25, 2013 |
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Exchanges and The Future of Free Market Health Care
By NCPA @ 1:35 PM :: 3888 Views :: Health Care
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There is a way to use health insurance exchanges to both reform our health care entitlements and reduce premiums for those with private insurance. This transition could take four steps....
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Monday, February 25, 2013 |
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NYT: Digital Shift Swells Profits for Electronic Medical Record Industry
By NCPA @ 1:33 PM :: 3766 Views :: Health Care
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...the largest digital records companies like Allscripts, Cerner and Epic Systems have generated enormous profits and Wall Street-style executive pay because of the legislation they supported financially....
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Friday, February 22, 2013 |
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Obama Gives Abercrombie $937K to Devise System to Force Doctors into 'Medical Homes'
By News Release @ 4:40 PM :: 6253 Views :: Health Care
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...examining standardized definitions and payment approaches for patient-centered medical homes and care management services....
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Thursday, February 21, 2013 |
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Could Soda Tax Shutter Hawaii's Only Can Maker?
By News Release @ 4:11 PM :: 7960 Views :: Economy, Health Care, Taxes
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The Ball Corporation is the only manufacturer of metal cans in the islands. The company employs 45 people and the beverage tax places their jobs directly at risk.
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Thursday, February 21, 2013 |
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Federal Government Releases List of Health Benefits Insurers Must Offer
By NCPA @ 12:57 PM :: 3812 Views :: Health Care
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The Obama administration issued its long-awaited final rule on essential health benefits that insurers must offer consumers in the individual and small-group market beginning in 2014....
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Wednesday, February 20, 2013 |
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Hospitals Chase Medicare Performance-Based Bonuses
By NCPA @ 2:33 PM :: 4799 Views :: Health Care
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$964 million in fiscal year 2013 will be withheld from more than 3,000 hospitals....
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Monday, February 18, 2013 |
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Health Insurance Exchanges Create State Problems
By NCPA @ 2:41 PM :: 4710 Views :: Health Care
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The exchanges create the appearance of private-sector delivery but instead create politically favored monopolies....
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Friday, February 15, 2013 |
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Consumer Freedom: Taxes Shouldn't be a Tool for Social Engineering
By News Release @ 4:10 PM :: 5408 Views :: Health Care, Taxes
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“Taxes shouldn’t be a tool for social engineering or an instrument to penalize Hawaiians for doing nothing wrong....”
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Friday, February 15, 2013 |
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Recall: Organic Spinach Sold in Hawaii Tainted with Hemorrhagic E Coli
By News Release @ 2:49 PM :: 8924 Views :: Health Care, Religion, GMOs
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...market withdrawal of select Organic Baby Spinach products with the potential to be contaminated with Enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC)....
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Thursday, February 14, 2013 |
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Abercrombie Uses $275K in State Money to Push Soda Tax Hike
By Video @ 10:35 PM :: 6134 Views :: Health Care, Taxes
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During a special premiere at the State Capitol, Gov. Neil Abercrombie and the Hawaii State Department of Health (DOH) today launched a new teen-focused multi-media campaign to combat obesity....
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Thursday, February 14, 2013 |
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What’s Wrong with Pay for Performance?
By NCPA @ 2:49 PM :: 6963 Views :: Education K-12, Health Care
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Medicare will begin adjusting payments to physicians based on “the value of the care provided” in 2015....
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Thursday, February 14, 2013 |
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Obamacare: Hospices Declare Bankruptcy
By Heritage Foundation @ 2:44 PM :: 3975 Views :: Health Care
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...hospice care was hit by a $17 billion payment cut from 2013 to 2022. Now, contrary to all of the misleading claims, this effect is already beginning....
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Thursday, February 14, 2013 |
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Sin Taxes: A Questionable Source of Revenue
By NCPA @ 2:36 PM :: 4432 Views :: Health Care, Taxes
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...lobbyists are relied upon heavily to vie for the interests of the higher-income consumers and producers, leaving the burden of the new tax to lower income consumers who cannot afford representation....
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Monday, February 11, 2013 |
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Defensive Medicine May Be Costlier Than It Seems
By NCPA @ 12:17 PM :: 3393 Views :: Health Care
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...states that have enacted malpractice reforms experienced a mere 2 percent to 5 percent reduction in health care spending compared to states that have not....
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Thursday, February 7, 2013 |
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Legislators Study Mandatory Long Term Care Insurance Plan
By Selected News Articles @ 10:15 PM :: 5390 Views :: Health Care
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Any successful program "must be mandatory (no one can opt out), public (government-supported and managed) and limited (will not provide full coverage)," the ILWU said....
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Thursday, February 7, 2013 |
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SB639: Big Pharma Opposes Control of Meth Precursor
By News Release @ 4:46 PM :: 7389 Views :: Health Care, Drugs
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State Senator Josh Green has introduced legislation, SB 639, to require a prescription for medications that contain the decongestant pseudoephedrine (PSE).
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Thursday, February 7, 2013 |
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NRA: Deeply Flawed Hawaii Mental Health Bill to be Heard Friday
By News Release @ 3:07 AM :: 6126 Views :: Health Care, Second Amendment
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Under this proposed legislation, Hawaiians would be subject to warrantless entry into their homes, warrantless seizure of their firearms and other weapons based solely on a mere “report” by a so-called “mental health professional.”
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Saturday, February 2, 2013 |
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Banner CMO to Meet HHSC MDs, Staff
By News Release @ 9:44 PM :: 5811 Views :: Health Care
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Through information technology and system design, Banner is able to make a profit in a Medicare environment by DATA driven health care....
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