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No, you can't keep your health plan The Wall Street Journal Share     President Obama guaranteed Americans that after health reform became law they could keep their insurance plans and their doctors. It's clear that this promise cannot be kept. Insurers and physicians are already reshaping their businesses as a result of Mr. Obama's plan. The health-reform law caps how much insurers can spend on expenses and take for profits. More Georgia joins health care reform lawsuit The Atlanta Business Chronicle Share
Georgia officially joined 19 other states to challenge the recently passed federal health care reform act. "Congress's health care bill will exact a huge cost on our state and curtail our economic growth," said Gov. Sonny Perdue, in a statement. More
Texas doctors opting out of Medicare at alarming rate The Houston Chronicle Share
Texas doctors are opting out of Medicare at alarming rates, frustrated by reimbursement cuts they say make participation in government-funded care of seniors unaffordable. Two years after a survey found nearly half of Texas doctors weren't taking some new Medicare patients, new data shows 100 to 200 a year are now ending all involvement with the program. More 75,000 Medicare signatures and counting...Georgia near top of pack MAG Share
Congress just passed the most far-reaching health reform legislation in decades. Unfortunately, lawmakers failed to address the Medicare funding mechanism for physicians. That's why the Medical Association of Georgia is promoting a nationwide grassroots campaign to collect one million signatures from patients and physicians that's calling for a fair and stable Medicare physician payment formula -- one that automatically keeps up with the cost of running a practice. Georgia had accounted for the sixth most signatures as of last week. More Pro & Con Op-Ed.: Should Georgia implement federal health care reform? The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Share
Some in Washington and Georgia want to derail health insurance reform. Our Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine, a candidate for governor, even went so far as to reject the opportunity to set up the high-risk insurance pool called for in the bill. More  The health care reform already costs more than we thought it would The Atlantic Share
There's been a spate of bad news recently about the health care bill. Henry Waxman canceled his War on Accounting, not because there was a sudden breakout of common sense on Capitol Hill, but because his committee's investigation revealed that companies had begun exploring whether they should drop their health insurance plans entirely -- a move that would cost over $100 billion thanks to the huge new subsidies the government would have to dole out. More Now that health care reform is the law, what happens now? CBS Money Watch Share
Health care reform -- officially known as The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act -- is now the law of the land. The law is a collection of new rules, regulations, and policies. In this year alone there are over 25 changes that will go into effect. Some of the biggest changes won't happen for several years and some changes will be phased in. More
In health law, a clearer view of coverage The New York Times Share
Ever since Thomas DeLorenzo was accepted to three law schools outside his home state of California, he has spent entire days on the phone with health insurers in other states, compiling information that he enters on a giant spreadsheet. More ER docs predict jump in emergency room visits U.S. News & World Report Share
Despite last month's passage of health care reform, a new poll reveals that more than two-thirds of emergency room doctors believe ER visits will continue to go up. The survey -- conducted by e-mail -- also finds that almost half predict that ER conditions will get worse for incoming patients down the road. More
Doctor and patient: Delivering better primary care The New York Times Share
What is clear is this: primary care is hurtling toward a crisis point. Once lauded as health care's frontline clinicians, primary care practitioners -- general internists, family physicians, geriatricians, general pediatricians, nurse practitioners and physician assistants -- are instead struggling with growing paperwork demands, inadequate and misaligned reimbursement and dwindling numbers of providers. More Pesticides on produce tied to ADHD in children U.S. News & World Report Share
New research suggests that exposure to high levels of organophosphate pesticides, commonly found on berries, celery and other produce, could raise the odds for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in children. At this point, though, there is no evidence that pesticide exposure can actually cause ADHD, stated the authors of a paper appearing in the June issue of Pediatrics. More New DNA robots strut their tiny stuff The Wall Street Journal Share
For the first time, microscopic robots made from DNA molecules can walk, follow instructions and work together to assemble simple products on an atomic-scale assembly line, mimicking the machinery of living cells, two independent research teams announced. More |
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