The American College of Physicians (ACP), representing 129,000 internal medicine physicians and medical student members, believes that it is essential that research on the effectiveness and comparative effectiveness of different medical treatments not be influenced by political considerations. The U.S.
In this installment of Health On The Hill, Kaiser Health News staff writer Mary Agnes Carey talks with NPR’s Julie Rovner, The Fiscal Times’ Eric Pianin and KFF’s Jackie Judd about the Senate’s Saturday vote to begin debate on health reform legislation and discuss what’s ahead. Read the
BusinessWeek: “In chasing revenue to help pay for health-care reform, Democrats have managed to rally two groups that tend to oppose each other – unions and Big Business. The focus of their ire: a proposed 40% excise tax on high-premium or so-called Cadillac health plans.
When people talk about revamping the health care system, among the often-mentioned reasons for change are unfair denials of care by insurance companies and medical debt, both of which are in the news today.
The following summarizes selected women’s health-related blog entries. ~ “BlogTalk: Grading Obama, Abortion Flares,” Maria Newman, New York Times’ “The Caucus”: Although several aspects of the health care reform debate “will be contentious,” the Senate’s