The Obama administration is moving forward with an ambitious agenda to improve the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease and unlock a method to prevent it by 2025. The plan also sets up a wide-ranging effort to improve the care that Alzheimer’s patients receive and support families.
A report by the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation finds the state has spent just $91 million more a year since 2006 to cover the uninsured, than it was spending before the law passed. The sum amounts to 1.4 percent of the state budget.
“We have four members of the court going one way and four members going the other way. Those who have been saying this is going to be an 8-to-1, or a 7-to-2 decision have clearly been refuted.”
What are the major arguments concerning the individual mandate? Medicaid expansion? That Anti-injunction Act? What is the Anti-injunction Act? And what’s severability? Stuart Taylor, Jr. answers these and other questions about this weeks Supreme Court arguments.
Weekend Reading: Health-care reform and women’s health. Our drug shortage. The science of midwifery. How the Supreme Court will rule on health-care reform law?
The White House has released a three-and-half minute video defending the Affordable Care Act.
How big is the constitutional challenge to the Obama health care law, which the Supreme Court will hear on March 26-28? It’s big enough for the justices to schedule six hours of arguments — more time than given to any case since 1966. Stuart Taylor, Jr. provides a primer on the key issues.
If passed, the Reproductive Parity Act would make the Evergreen State the first in the country to require public and private insurers to cover abortion if the plan covers maternity services.
Does the GOP want to have a “moral” veto over your health insurance? Is U.S. healthcare already ‘socialized’? What’s it like to work as a home health aide?
To learn more: Visit the White House Healthcare Issue page. Visit the American Medical Association’s Web site.
President Barack Obama’s Remarks at the American Medical Association Annual Meeting in Chicago As Released By The White House, June 15, 2009 From the moment I took office as President, the central challenge we have confronted as a nation has been the need to lift ourselves out of the worst recession since World War II. [...]
In his weekly address, President Barack Obama said $313 billion in savings will make it possible to reform health-care without driving up the deficit. “These savings will come from commonsense changes,” Mr. Obama said, “For example – if more Americans are insured, we can cut payments that help hospitals treat patients without health insurance. If [...]
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Lost in translation: Lack of trained interpreters can lead to medical errors
Interpreter services at hospitals and other medical settings are often inadequate, forcing family members, including children, to step in, or the task falls to medical staff members who may not speak the language well.
Some insurers deny ER coverage to people who have been drinking
Laws in more than half the states permit insurers to deny payment for medical services related to alcohol or drug use. Faced with the prospect of not getting paid for care, some ER personnel sidestep the problem by simply not testing patients’ blood or urine for alcohol.
Travel insurance can protect your wallet — and your health on vacation
Think your regular health insurance policy will cover you if you get into medical trouble overseas?
Don’t bet on it.
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