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Elmendorf: Health Reform Will Reduce Deficit, Warns Of Fiscal Crisis
Politico: In remarks to reporters Thursday, Congressional Budget Office director Doug Elmendorf warned of a looming budget crisis that “cannot be solved through minor tinkering.” The nation’s “unsustainable” spending could increase the national debt from $7.5 trillion at the end of 2009 to 20…
Community Health Centers Eagerly Await Funding From Reform Law
The Squirrel Hill Health Center in Pittsburgh is one of many community health centers that will see a significant funding increase under the health overhaul law, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette…
New York Attorney General: Some College Health Plans Violate State Regulations
The New York Times: An investigation by New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo’s office into health insurance plans offered to college students found that most plans “pay out far less in benefits than they collect in premiums,” sometimes in violation of state regulations…
Top State Health Officials Confused Over National Reform’s Effects On States
Stateline.org reports on confusion over health care reform at a quarterly meeting with top state health officials in Washington, D.C…
Threats Against Lawmakers On The Rise After Health Reform
Threats against lawmakers have risen threefold in recent months, The Washington Post reports. Lawmakers reported 42 threats in the first three months of this year, compared with 15 in last three months of 2009, said Senate Sergeant-at-Arms Terrance W. Gainer, who had information about threats involving both chambers…
Mass. Judge Could Rule On Health Insurer Dispute By Monday
Here’s the latest in the standoff between Massachusetts regulators and the state’s health insurers. The Boston Globe: “Lawyers for health insurers and the state sparred in court yesterday over regulators’ rejection of 235 proposed rate increases, and a judge said he would decide by Monday whether the companies will be allowed to charge the higher prices…
Today’s Opinions And Editorials
Scary ‘IRS Agents’ Claims Chicago Tribune In its most frightening version to date, the new Big Lie about health care reform is that it will require the Internal Revenue Service to hire “16,500 armed bureaucrats” to enforce the coming requirement that those who can afford it must purchase insurance (Eric Zorn, 4/8)…
European Health Insurance Card – Change From 1 May 2010
Due to a change in European law, from the 1st May 2010 responsibility for issuing the European Health Insurance Card will no longer rest with a person’s state of residence. In practise this means that the HSE will have to issue the EHIC for all Irish insured persons or pensioners and their dependant’s resident in other member States, e.g…
Why We Need A World Social Health Insurance
We are in need of a social security fund on a global scale. That is what scientists of the Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp (ITM) argue in a Viewpoint in the leading medical journal The Lancet. Such a ‘Global Fund for Health’ would make the use of international donor money a lot more transparent and efficient…
Hospitalists Key To Success Of Health Care Reform
On March 21, 2010, Congress passed the most comprehensive healthcare reform bill since the formation of Medicare. While a monumental achievement, the bill leaves much of the critical work of healthcare reform unfinished, according to a new editorial by Dr…