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New Mexico considers Medicaid overhaul to cut costs because of looming budget shortfall
Santa Fé :: Argentina | 20 days ago
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Gov. Bill Richardson's administration is proposing to overhaul Medicaid and scale back health care services to some lower-income New Mexicans to cope with a projected budget shortfall of $300 million next year in the state's largest health care program.
Tags: health care, budget shortfall, Argentina, Santa Fé, Presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson, United States Department of Health and Human Services, Uninsured in the United States, TennCare, Medicaid Drug Rebate Program, Healthcare reform in the United States, Healthcare in the United States, Medicaid, Health Medical Pharma, Social Issues
Obamacare heads to Senate for Saturday night vote
A severe recession, double-digit unemployment, record foreclosures and $12 trillion debt doesn’t paint a very rosy picture about the country’s future; Americans across the country are working harder and longer to meet their monthly budget...
Tags: health care reform, Reid, Obama, Social Issues, Senate&, Politics, allnews, Labor, San Diego, Andy Stern, Blue, Harry Reid, The Office, Mary Landrieu, 111th United States Congress, Health insurance, Economy of the United States, Healthcare reform in the United States, Government debt, health care, United States public debt
An Eye-Opening Account of Health Care Lobbying
Seattle :: WA :: USA | 20 days ago
Credibility Bishops have been “betrayed” The implication is that Obama favored the funding ban in order to get the bill out of the House and now opposes it. The bishops have been “betrayed,” Donohue claims. But who played into whose hands? One of the sharpest critics...
Tags: Catholic Charities, Catholic League, Catholic Hospitals, Catholic Bishops, health care, Democratic House, Bill Donohue, USCCB, Obama, socialized medicine, Seattle, Abortion, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Roman Catholic Church in the United States, Nancy Pelosi, Barack Obama, Politics, Social Issues, Religion Belief
Government Snooping Around in Women's Health Care Issues!
First, it was the mammogram test this week. An independent medical group stated that women under 40 did not need yearly routine mammograms. When legitimate groups such as the AMA heard about this, they all rejected the notion that women had...
Tags: pap, pap smear, mammogram, forty, twenty, twenties, two years, obstetricians, gynecologists, cbo, bill, health care, healthcare, health care bill, healthcare bill, discrimination, women, feminine, government snooping, health, Washington, Cervical cancer, Mammography, Pap test, Cancer, Medical tests, Papillomavirus, Health Medical Pharma, Oncology, Social Issues, Health Care Issues
Health care issues: Bundling payments
Minneapolis :: MN :: USA | 20 days ago
Credibility What can the government do to get doctors and hospitals to deliver cheaper medical services? Medicare's fee-for-service structure means that doctors, hospitals and other providers have a greater financial incentive to provide large quantities of medical...
Tags: health care, medical services, Minneapolis, Healthcare in Australia, Health policy, Medicare, United States National Health Care Act, Health economics, Healthcare reform in the United States, Healthcare in the United States, Health Medical Pharma, Politics, Social Issues
Politico: Hispanics blame Rahm for immigrant ban
Wilson :: NY :: USA | 20 days ago
Credibility Hispanic lawmakers say an old adversary, White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, has his fingerprints all over a push to prohibit illegal immigrants from buying health insurance plans in a new market for people who don’t get insurance through their employers....
Tags: House-Senate, White House, House Democrats, House Judiciary Committee, Republican House, Rahm Emanuel, CHC, illegal immigration, health care, hispanic lawmakers, Wilson, John Conyers, Chris Van Hollen, Democratic Party, Nydia Velￃﾡzquez, Congressional Hispanic Caucus, Xavier Becerra, Politics, Social Issues
Cervical cancer screening postponed to age 21
Anchorage :: AK :: USA | 20 days ago
Credibility The new guidelines, however, claim that women should be screened for cervical cancer at the age 21, rather than earlier in life. It also urges every two years instead of annual screening in those aged between 21 and 30, adding that there is no difference...
Tags: cervical cancers, health care, cancers screenings, pap smears, pap test, American College of Obstetricians, affect care, routine mammogram, medical group, Anchorage, Mammography, Cancer, Papillomavirus, Cervical cancer, Health Medical Pharma, Social Issues, Human papillomavirus, Cancer screening, Screening, Papilloma, Medical imaging, Sexually transmitted diseases and infections, Oncology, Medical tests, Breast cancer, Rationing, Politics, Labor, Prevention, Obstetrics, Sexually transmitted disease
Ill. launches online hospital report cards
Chicago :: IL :: USA | 20 days ago
Credibility Illinois has launched an online tool consumers can use to find information on hospitals and surgical centers. A state law passed in 2003 requires all Illinois hospitals to report nurse staffing, infection prevention measures and hospital acquired infections...
Tags: ASSOCIATED PRESS Illinois, Chicago, Julie Hamos, Nosocomial infection, Health care, Health Medical Pharma, Social Issues
Gov. Bob Riley frees another turkey
Montgomery :: AL :: USA | 20 days ago
Credibility Gov. Bob Riley pardoned a Thanksgiving turkey on Friday as part of an annual tradition in Alabama that dates back to 1949. The event, held at the governor's Montgomery mansion, marks the 60th time an Alabama governor has issued a pardon for a turkey --...
Tags: Bob Riley, Alabama, health care, care reform, Montgomery, Thanksgiving, Blankets, Riley, Domestic turkey, Bedding, Linens, Human Interest, Democratic Party, Healthcare reform in the United States, Medicaid, Health Medical Pharma, Politics, Social Issues
Funding for UC Merced medical school missing in Senate's health care bill
Merced :: CA :: USA | 20 days ago
Credibility A 2,074-page health care bill unveiled in the Senate this week omits funding for proposed medical schools at UC Merced and other institutions. So now the Capitol Hill maneuvering on behalf of the proposed medical school get more complicated...Lobbyists...
Tags: Senate, medically schools, health care, UC Merced, White House, Dennis Cardoza, care bills, Jim Costa, David Brown, University of California, Merced, Barbara Boxer, United States Senate, Politics, Western Association of Schools and Colleges, Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities, Merced County California, Health Medical Pharma
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