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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 :: 4660 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 :: 4837 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 :: 7545 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 :: 3507 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 :: 7085 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 :: 5586 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 :: 10264 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 :: 6424 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 :: 6408 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 :: 6535 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 :: 6723 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 :: 12228 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 :: 4006 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 :: 3870 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 :: 6381 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 :: 8149 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 :: 3913 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 :: 4922 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 :: 4820 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 :: 5540 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 :: 9188 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 :: 6294 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 :: 7137 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 :: 4053 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 :: 4555 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 :: 3487 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 :: 5499 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 :: 7544 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 :: 6293 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 :: 5937 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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Friday, February 1, 2013 |
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Some Families to Be Priced out of Health Overhaul
By NCPA @ 12:59 PM :: 4797 Views :: National News, Health Care
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IRS regulations issued Wednesday failed to fix the problem as liberal backers of the president's plan had hoped, says the Associated Press....
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Tuesday, January 29, 2013 |
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HHSC Exec: Hospitals "Being Pushed to Brink of Collapse"
By Selected News Articles @ 6:35 PM :: 6655 Views :: Health Care
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"Hilo Medical Center, the other thirteen HHSC facilities, and hospitals nationwide are being pushed to the brink of collapse, given the new health reform law changes."
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Saturday, January 26, 2013 |
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HFF: Mainland Money Behind Push for Gay Marriage
By Hawaii Family Forum @ 11:24 PM :: 10212 Views :: Family, Gambling, Health Care, Religion
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...continued attempts to legalize same-sex marriage, gambling and physician-assisted suicide....
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Saturday, January 26, 2013 |
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CDC: Hawaii 3rd Lowest Tobacco Use
By News Release @ 11:09 PM :: 6795 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care
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State ranks third lowest in the country for adult smoking and second lowest for youth tobacco use....
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Thursday, January 24, 2013 |
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Health Insuance: Hawaii Has One of Lowest Rejection Rates in Nation
By Selected News Articles @ 5:15 PM :: 6151 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care
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Hundreds of thousands of consumers have their health insurance applications declined each year according to a 2010 congressional study....
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Thursday, January 24, 2013 |
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Survey: 195 Patients in Hospitals Waiting for Long Term Care Beds
By Andrew Walden @ 4:57 PM :: 6340 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care
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- Queens: 54 patients waiting
- Maui Memorial: 41 patients waiting
- Kuakini Hospital: 20 patients waiting
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Tuesday, January 22, 2013 |
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HI-5 Fraud Shows DoH Cannot be Trusted With Soda Tax
By News Release @ 9:23 PM :: 5864 Views :: Health Care, Taxes
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As public audits recently revealed, it's difficult to trust the Department of Health to spend our tax dollars wisely....
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Tuesday, January 22, 2013 |
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Gun Discussions Should Not Be Required for Physicians
By Selected News Articles @ 2:15 PM :: 5284 Views :: Health Care, Second Amendment
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...who is going to be held responsible if one of their patients decides to take out some poor store clerk? Is the shooter's doctor now a potential target for a lawsuit? Can the shooter claim at his trial that he was not properly counseled by his physician?
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Monday, January 21, 2013 |
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Abercrombie Soda Tax: $1.28 per Gallon
By Selected News Articles @ 8:26 PM :: 7494 Views :: Health Care, Taxes, Cost of Living
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In 2011, he had attempted to pass a soda tax under the Orwellian title “Sugary Beverage Healthy Hawaii Fee,” but the state legislature saw through the obfuscating rhetoric and defeated it.
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Sunday, January 20, 2013 |
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Abercrombie to Push Penny an Ounce Soda Tax
By Selected News Articles @ 3:52 PM :: 6450 Views :: Health Care, Taxes
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A 12 ounce soda would cost 12 cents more....
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Friday, January 18, 2013 |
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A Health Scare for Small Businesses
By NCPA @ 2:20 PM :: 6202 Views :: National News, Health Care, Small Business
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Many small-business owners haven't yet realized that the way they structure their firm in 2013 could determine their status under the law in a year's time....
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Friday, January 18, 2013 |
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Responding to Newtown
By Heritage Foundation @ 1:58 PM :: 5968 Views :: National News, Health Care, Second Amendment
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“Given the weak track record of federal mental health programs, states should exercise primary responsibility for determining appropriate mental health services, which will entail eliminating restrictions currently imposed by the federal government.”
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Thursday, January 17, 2013 |
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Study: Bag Ban Tied to 25% Increase in ER Admissions, Deaths
By Selected News Articles @ 2:04 PM :: 4872 Views :: Environment, Health Care
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ER visits spiked when the ban went into effect. Relative to other counties, ER admissions increase by at least one fourth, and deaths exhibit a similar increase....
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Thursday, January 17, 2013 |
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Obama Signs 23 Gun-Related Executive Orders
By Selected News Articles @ 1:40 PM :: 5736 Views :: Health Care, Second Amendment
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"Launch a national dialogue led by Secretaries Sebelius and Duncan on mental health."
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Wednesday, January 16, 2013 |
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HHSC Exec Discusses Banner Partnership with Hilo MDs
By Selected News Articles @ 9:36 PM :: 11480 Views :: Hawaii County , Hawaii State Government, Health Care, Labor
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Approximately four years ago, the Hawaii State Legislature commissioned Stroudwater Associates to evaluate our Hawaii Health System Safety Net Hospitals....
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Tuesday, January 15, 2013 |
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Disease Management Programs Don't Work
By NCPA @ 6:30 PM :: 6236 Views :: National News, Health Care
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According to the data, there were no decreases in emergency admissions or inpatient charges....
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Tuesday, January 15, 2013 |
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Feds Pay Maui County Office of Aging to Keep Medicare Patients Away from Hospital
By News Release @ 6:09 PM :: 8576 Views :: Maui County, National News, Health Care
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...Maui County Office on Aging, will expand ongoing transitions efforts to reduce Medicare hospital readmissions....
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Friday, January 11, 2013 |
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Braces for the Kids Just Got More Expensive: Obamacare Tax Hike Case Study
By Americans for Tax Reform @ 11:23 AM :: 6230 Views :: National News, Health Care, Taxes
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In 2013, the tax increases in Obamacare will increasingly conspire against kitchen-table family healthcare decisions....
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Thursday, January 10, 2013 |
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WaPo: Reform Medicare, Sustain It Long Term
By Heritage Foundation @ 1:46 PM :: 4166 Views :: National News, Health Care
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The editorial board of The Washington Post is absolutely right: “Medicare as we know it is not sustainable,” and the “ultimate solution” is structural reform.
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Wednesday, January 9, 2013 |
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How the Supreme Court Doomed the Affordable Care Act to Failure
By NCPA @ 7:46 PM :: 5261 Views :: National News, Health Care
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The Supreme Court's surprise ruling on the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has left many observers wondering about the implications of the ruling on the law itself....
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