Health Reform News

Health-Care Reform's Fate Won't Alter Health Care's Larger Problems
Huffington Post (blog)
Health-care reform will not begin in earnest until 2014. However, 2012 will define whether it makes it that far. The US Supreme Court is expected to rule on reform's constitutionality before it adjourns in June. If the new law survives the court ...

Assembly panel moves forward with key component of health care reform
phillyBurbs.com
TRENTON — State lawmakers took a step toward implementing a major component of President Barack Obama's health care reform law Monday as an Assembly panel moved legislation to establish a New Jersey health insurance exchange. The Assembly Health and ...
Health care reform stalls out in previously supportive statesCivSource
Health care reform: Insurance exchange should include large employersOregonLive.com
Questions raised about proposal for Pennsylvania's insurance exchangeAllentown Morning Call
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MLive.com
Simple health care reform would shorten time spent in waiting rooms (guest column)
MLive.com
Senate Bills 429 and 430 empower physicians and their staffs to focus on improving their patients' health while cutting red tape and improving efficiencies in the delivery of health care. And it is a reform that will make better use of time for both ...

Tickets on sale for health-care event
Boulder County Business Report
By Business Report Staff BOULDER - Tickets are on sale for the Boulder County Business Report's event, The Inside View: Health-Care Reform, that will be from 7:30 am to 1:30 pm, Thursday, Feb. 9, at the Millennium Harvest House, 1345 28th St. The event ...
Bill to stop Colorado health exchange diesDenver Business Journal
Senate committee kills GOP bill aimed at undoing Obamacare-related measureDenver Post (blog)

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Politico
Rick Santorum hits even popular parts of the ACA
Politico
Continue Reading Text Size - + reset Santorum hits Mitt on reform Santorum, who has touted free market health principles like health savings accounts as an alternative to the Affordable Care Act, defended insurance industry practices the law eliminates ...
Health Care Reform Update -- February 6, 2012JD Supra (press release)
President Obama Met the challenge: Passage of the Affordable Care Actallvoices
Immigration and Obamacare join as issueThe Advocate
PRWeek -The White House (blog) -AnnArbor.com
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Health care reform stalls out in previously supportive states
CivSource
Federal health care reform is facing more hurdles, this time with states that agreed to move forward implementing requirements before a Supreme Court ruling on the law. Some lawmakers and health insurance advocates in Pennslyvania are pushing back on ...
Health care reform: Insurance exchange should include large employersOregonLive.com
Questions raised about proposal for Pennsylvania's insurance exchangeAllentown Morning Call
OP-ED | The Cost of Excluding ConsumersCT Newsjunkie
Nashua Telegraph
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Telegraph.co.uk
FAQ: The health reform law and contraception
Washington Post (blog)
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius (Charles Dharapak - Associated Press) The health reform law's requirement that health insurance companies cover birth control without co-pay has seen increased media attention last week.
Cardinal O'Malley: Either Violate Our Consciences Or Drop Health CoverageWBUR
Health care reform policy sparks outcry by someRochester Democrat and Chronicle
Health reform and contraceptionWinfield Daily Courier Online
WISC Madison -Louisville Courier-Journal -Comedy Central (blog)
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Louisiana Senator Co-Sponsors Bill to Protect Agent Health Commissions
Insurance Journal
Two US senators have filed a bill to clarify that agent compensation should be excluded from the federal health reform Medical Loss Ratio (MLR) requirement for the individual and small group markets. Sen. Mary L. Landrieu, D-La., chair of the Senate ...

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DOJ, Plaintiffs Asking for More Argument Time in Health Reform Law Case
California Healthline
On Friday, the Department of Justice on Friday filed a brief with the Supreme Court outlining a suggested schedule for the arguments in the multistate lawsuit against the federal health reform law, but the plaintiffs are disputing how much time should ...

Evening Standard
Miliband: Drop NHS reform over jobs
The Press Association
Ed Miliband has claimed that 6000 under-threat nursing jobs could be protected with the money saved from abandoning the Government's NHS reforms. The Labour leader stepped up calls for the Health and Social Care Bill to be stopped in its tracks, ...
Ed Miliband: NHS reform defeat could save 6000 nursing jobsThe Guardian
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These foolish NHS reforms will hurt patient careEvening Standard
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Wallack: The pivotal role of practitioners in health care reform
vtdigger.org
That's not the right way to reduce health care costs. This is why providers must lead in crafting a solution. Health care practitioners have to own this one, and we must develop reforms that enhance their role in the health care system, which has been ...
ANALYSIS: The battle for Vermont's healthiWatch News
Vt. would allow 'bronze plan' to encourage healthCBS News
Shumlin Bows To Business Community On Health Care PlanVermont Public Radio
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Health care reform: Insurance exchange should include large employers
OregonLive.com
John Kitzhaber and the 2011 Legislature deserve credit for moving swiftly to implement the federal health reform law by creating the Oregon Health Insurance Exchange. Starting Jan. 1, 2014, the exchange will be a central marketplace for individuals and ...
Questions raised about proposal for Pennsylvania's insurance exchangeAllentown Morning Call
OP-ED | The Cost of Excluding ConsumersCT Newsjunkie

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Ohio taking a two-track approach to health reform
Mansfield News Journal
COLUMBUS -- When it comes to federal health reform, the Kasich administration seems to be of two minds. One of Gov. John Kasich's top appointees, Greg Moody, has enthusiastically embraced a key goal of health reform: boosting quality and moving toward ...

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Evening Standard
These foolish NHS reforms will hurt patient care
Evening Standard
Of the one per cent who can follow the argument, which includes all the major health unions, the MPs on the Health Select Committee and the editors of the Nursing Times, the Health Service Journal and the BMJ, the vast majority are now opposed to it.
Public 'Bemused' Over Coalition's NHS ReformsSky News
NHS reforms: the bill that will cost us dearThe Guardian
Fears of looming NHS crisisThis is Plymouth
BBC News -TopNews United States -The Press Association
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Health care reform would ensure all have access to preventive care
Zanesville Times Recorder
Their plight underscores the urgent need to retain the health care reform law that will expand proven screening and prevention programs at no charge to patients. The study, based on a survey taken in 2010, was conducted by the Centers for Disease ...

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ANALYSIS: The battle for Vermont's health
iWatch News
Toby Talbot/AP By Wendell Potter Former CIGNA executive-turned-whistleblower Wendell Potter is writing about the health care industry and the ongoing battle for health reform. His columns are published on iWatch News every Monday and Thursday.
State developments: Florida hospitals dodge budget bulletNews-Medical.net

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Health Reform via Super Bowl
American Thinker (blog)
She just figured out an ingenious way to illustrate one of the major problems with our health care system and stumbled on a solution to boot. The solution would be to just have the Super Bowl on daily basis. Now, wait a minute and hear me out.

Fears of looming NHS crisis
This is Plymouth
A LEADING city doctor has warned health reforms could fuel a workforce crisis among GPs. Plymouth clinicians and union reps have added their voices to growing concerns over the NHS overhaul. Dr John Pickard, chair of Plymouth Local Medical Council, ...

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VIEW FROM ELSEWHERE: Fewer cancer screenings without health care
Morning Sentinel
Their plight underscores the urgent need to retain the health care reform law that will expand proven screening and prevention programs at no charge to patients. The study, based on a survey taken in 2010, was conducted by the Centers for Disease ...

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Sky News
Public 'Bemused' Over Coalition's NHS Reforms
Sky News
Senior doctors claim the bitter political row over the Government's Health Reform Bill is leaving patients "bemused". In a newspaper article, he declared there are just three months "to prevent great harm being done to the NHS".
NHS reforms: the bill that will cost us dearThe Guardian
Fears of looming NHS crisisThis is Plymouth
NHS Reform Causing Unrest Among Medical ProfessionalsTopNews United States
The Press Association -TopNews New Zealand -InPharm
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