By Jonathan Cohn July 13, 2009 This column is a collaboration between KHN and The New Republic. Negotiations over health care reform screeched to a halt late last week when 40 centrist Democrats–members of the House Blue Dog Coalition–signed a letter saying they could not support the House’s emerging legislation without significant changes. Their major [...]
Health care will be expensive as long as someone else is paying for it, writes Dr. Roger Stark, a health-care policy analyst at the Washington Policy Center, a Seattle-based think tank that promotes market-based solutions. “Only when individuals can direct their own medical spending through a market will costs become transparent and likewise come under [...]
Because of Washington state’s “Cover All Kids” law the state “now has one of the nation’s lowest rates children without (health) insurance,” writes Paola Maranan in a Sept. 9 op-ed piece in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
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Experts divided over recommendation to screen children for cholesterol
Some clinicians say universal screening is an important tool to help identify children who are genetically predisposed to high cholesterol and to pinpoint others who could benefit from treatment. Others express concerns that screening may do more harm than good.
People in state high-risk insurance plans often feel left behind
The federal health law set up new plans that are cheaper and more comprehensive than the older ones run by states but consumers need to go without insurance for six months to qualify.
Peeking in on your doctor’s notes
Although federal law guarantees patients the right to examine and get copies of their medical records, providers haven’t always made it easy to do so. But the movement to give patients direct access to their health information has picked up steam, and policymakers have encouraged it as a way to empower patients to help manage their health and their medical care.
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