Affordable Care Act (ACA)
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Side Effects May Include Hospital Consolidation
Although the Supreme Court has finished debating the constitutionality of the Obama Administration’s health care reform, the ripple effect of its initial passage has already begun. Across southern Idaho, hospital mergers have become the go-to solution for health care providers struggling to survive with the reforms.
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Single Payer Is Needed Cure
After spending 25 years in the health care field, most of it related to making hospitals more efficient and effective, I have become skeptical of many of Washington’s reform efforts, especially by my party, the GOP. Read More »
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Single-Payer Prescription For What Ails Obamacare
“We apologize for the inconvenience. The Marketplace is currently undergoing regularly scheduled maintenance and will be back up Monday 10/7/3013.” You read it right, 3013. That was the message on the homepage of the New York state health insurance exchange website this past weekend. Read More »
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Single-Payer Proponents Take To The Hill
Advocates for a single-payer “Medicare for all” health system are fanning out across Capitol Hill this week, lobbying members of Congress.
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Soaring Clinical Trials Costs And Effects On Drug Prices
The cost to bring a new drug to market has skyrocketed over the past several decades and, in large part, is due to the rising cost of clinical trials. In 2013, Forbes magazine estimated it would cost a company over $350 million for one drug to reach patients...
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Some Doctors Refusing To Adopt Electronic Records
Under a plan first endorsed by President George W. Bush and signed into law by President Obama, the health care industry in the United States has started to change one of the signature elements in doctor's offices — switching chicken-scratched hand-written notes and records to electronic forms. Read More »
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Speech by Aetna CEO Signals a Sea Change in How Americans Obtain Coverage
Aetna CEO Mark Bertolini caused quite a stir when he said at a Las Vegas conference a few days ago that the insurance industry as we know it is, for all practical purposes, a dinosaur on the verge of extinction. Read More »
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Startup Strategy: HIT And Device Entrepreneurs Name 2014 Risks And Opportunities
While healthcare reform is well underway, a true shift in care delivery and economics appears to be more of a looming threat than a proven reality. The question remains: How do you manage and grow a successful business in the dynamic environment of today while positioning for the future? Read More »
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State Insurance Exchanges: Hospital IT's Next Challenge
As state insurance exchanges take hold, hospital IT departments must figure out how to keep up with patients' insurance eligibility, health status and benefits in fluid environment. Read More »
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State-Based Obamacare Exchanges Cost Far More Than The Federal Marketplace
...New data from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation details the amount spent on consumer assistance for the Affordable Care Act in each state, and like overall enrollment numbers, the state totals vary a huge amount. Consumer-assistance programs are those intended to help individuals understand and enroll in coverage under Obamacare, including the Navigator program, the In-Person Assister program, and Certified Application Counselors...
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States Spend $28M, Then Leave Exchanges To The Feds
Late last year, Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer announced that her state would not build its own online insurance marketplace, a pillar of the Affordable Care Act, because there were too many unknowns. Read More »
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States’ Hospital Data For Sale Puts Privacy In Jeopardy
Hospitals in the U.S. pledge to keep a patient’s health background confidential. Yet states from Washington to New York are putting privacy at risk by selling records that can be used to link a person’s identity to medical conditions using public information. Read More »
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Sunday Shutdown Reader: Harold Varmus On Self-Destruction In The Sciences
"Now that the shutdown is nearing the end of its second week, further consequences are coming into view ..." Read More »
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Sunlight Foundation helps shine a light on Obamacare Contractors
According to a recent article posted on the Sunlight Foundation web site, they recently reviewed contract award information from USASpending.gov and FedBizOpps.gov, and found 47 organizations that won contracts from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) or the Treasury Department to manage, support or service the implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Among them were top contractors like Northrop Grumman, Deloitte LLP, SAIC Inc., General Dynamics, CGI Group, and Booz Allen Hamilton. Read More »
Supreme Court upholds Affordable Healthcare Act
Read the actual Supreme Court's Decision Read More »
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