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National Review Online (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
S en. Harry Reid needs 60 Senate votes to pass his health-care bill and, as Jonathan Karl of ABC News reported last night , is attempting to bribe Sen. Mary Landrieu of Louisiana to be the 60th vote by shoveling money into her state. His bribe takes the form of an increased federal reimbursement of Louisiana’s Medicaid expenses. Medicaid -- the government health-insurance program for certain...
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
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.
Business Wire (Free subscription) | yesterday
DOVER, Del.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--For the second year in a row, Delaware Physicians Care has been selected as one of the top 25 Medicaid Plans out of hundreds in the nation by the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) and U.S. News & World Report magazine. The ranking is based on clinical quality, member satisfaction and NCQA accreditation scores. The 2009-10 America’s Best Health Insurance...
News-Insurances (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Aon eSolutions, provider of award winning technology-based tools that improve the management of risk, insurance and safety programs, today announced that risk management tools RiskConsole and iVOS will provide clients with solutions to comply with the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services, or CMS, mandatory reporting requirements. Section 111 of the Medicare, Medicaid and SCHIP [...]
Michael Goldfarb - The Blog (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
A doctor who's been following the health care debate closely writes in an email: The Senate bill has a demonstration project, section 2074, that seeks to control costs in Medicaid by trying to create a fixed payment for doctors and...
Star Tribune (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., is among a handful of senators who have not said what they will do when Reid holds a showdown vote on beginning debate on the legislation Saturday night. Landrieu said in an interview Thursday that the extra Medicaid assistance is "one of the things that's important" to her decision but won't determine her vote on the $848 billion, 10-year revamping of the nation's...
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Florida health care providers will now be able to access information on Medicaid patients, including diagnoses and prescription history, electronically.
Piper Report on Health Care (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Payment reform is an integral part of national and state-based health reform efforts. Indeed, payment reform is essential to moving from quantity-based reimbursement to a performance-based health care system. That is, moving from fee-for-service to fee-for-value. Payment innovations, such as global payment, are designed to reward efficiency and higher quality, while supporting providers as they invest...
Business Wire (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Vital Data Technology, an innovator of emergency medical information systems, announced today that the company has signed an agreement with AMERIGROUP Corporation to serve health plans in Texas and Florida. Vital Data Technology will implement the six-month pilot program utilizing its MyVitalData PlanLink™, a comprehensive service with specifically designed...
obi jo | yesterday
http://realhealthreform.wordpress.com/2009/11/20/senator-reid-should-you-opt-out/ The press is singing the praises of Senator Harry Reid as an impresario of political tactics. Sadly, political tactics by the left and the right are what have most Americans most deeply upset these days. It is clear that back room dealing is going on like never before and millions upon millions of tax payer dollars are
Collecting my Thoughts (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
Do you remember that phrase after the last election? "Now maybe we can spend money on things that matter," by rejoicing, teary Obama supporters. What a laugh. The welfare state grows no matter who is in office, sometimes more under Republicans, but definitely under the less-than-conservative two Bush presidencies. Once a human services program is in place, who controls the White House or...
PharmaGossip (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
Is the support of the pharmaceutical industry needed for Congress to pass health care reform? Or is the price of that support too high for the people the reform package is trying to help? Those questions took on new urgency this week with the release of a study by AARP, the seniors advocacy group, that found that drug makers had raised the wholesale price of brand-name prescription drugs by 9 percent,...
Thoughts Of A Conservative Christian (Free subscription) | yesterday
The $100 Million Health Care Vote? November 19, 2009 3:03 PM ABC News’ Jonathan Karl reports: What does it take to get a wavering senator to vote for health care reform? Here’s a case study. On page 432 of the Reid bill, there is a section increasing federal Medicaid subsidies for “certain states recovering from a major disaster.” The section spends [...]
Exposing Liberal Lies (Free subscription) | yesterday
A new angle regarding ObamaCare is presented by Dick Morris . How do increased state taxes sound to you? Anything to take the heat off of Obama and his cronies in Congress. OBAMACARE = BIG STATE TAX HIKES By Dick Morris And Eileen McGann "Anxious to avoid raising taxes too much to pay for their health care proposals, the Obama Administration and its Congressional allies hit on a great new idea:...
snapped shot (Free subscription) | yesterday
I find it ironic that Sen Arlen Specter claimed that the Republican party left him, thus forcing him to become a Democrat. But yet, when one looks at his career, voting record, and his statements on American values, a person can't come to any other conclusion but that this man is a Socialist. Pure and Simple . Specter suggested writing into all health insurance policies an annual physical exam, which...
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obi jo | yesterday
http://realhealthreform.wordpress.com/2009/11/20/senator-reid-should-you-opt-out/ The press is singing the praises of Senator Harry Reid as an impresario of political tactics. Sadly, political tactics by the left and the right are what have most Americans most deeply upset these days. It is clear that back room dealing is going on like never before and millions upon millions of tax payer dollars are...
obi jo | 11/04/2009
http://realhealthreform.wordpress.com/2009/11/04/mandating-health-insurance-constitutional/http://realhealthreform.wordpress.com/2009/11/04/mandating-health-insurance-constitutional/ It is typically American to wish to be independent in thought and action. That typical American attitude serves us all well most of the time. However, that attitude also carries with it a responsibility to accept the consequences...
obi jo | 10/16/2009
http://realhealthreform.wordpress.com/2009/10/16/sgr-vote-in-senate-on-monday-being-closely-watched-by-physicians/ For many years Congress has avoided dealing with a nagging problem that has plauged Medicare and physicians – the SGR or sustainable growth rate formula. It is a complex formula by which CMS (Centers for Medicare/Medicaid Services) comes up with an adjustment factor for the Medicare fee...
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