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NPR Researching Health Lobbyists and Their Influence

Posted on June 25, 2009
Today National Public Ratio began a new series discussing the lobbyists in the room during health reform debates. Earlier this month, lobbyists trooped in to watch as the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions began working on a...

RIP Dr. Jerri Neilsen FitzGerald

Posted on June 24, 2009
The Associated Press reports on the death of Dr. Jerri Neilsen FitzGerald, Dr. Jerri Nielsen FitzGerald, who diagnosed and treated her own breast cancer before a dramatic rescue from the South Pole, has died. She was 57. Her husband, Thomas...

Expanding Medicaid: Some States Wary

Posted on June 24, 2009
The Wall Street Journal reports on some concerns of state governors about expanding Medicaid. Jonathan Weisman writes: Some governors are pushing to scale back or kill proposals to expand Medicaid to provide health-care coverage to the uninsured, raising a new...

Lobbying Money and Health Reform

Posted on June 23, 2009
Nate Silver at the FiveThirtyEight blog has crunched some numbers on the impact of health lobbying money on the public health option. He concludes that such monetary influence does have an impact on several senators and their votes on the...

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Rationing Health Care British Style

Posted on June 23, 2009
Ezra Klein discusses rationing of health care and why we don't have to be like the British. He writes, Michael Hiltzik has a smart column explaining the way rationing works in the British health-care system: The most extensive laboratory in...

Drug Companies

Posted on June 22, 2009
The Associated Press reports on the new deal that the drug companies have negotiated with Medicare's drug provision. The story provides, President Barack Obama on Monday welcomed the pharmaceutical industry's agreement to help close a gap in Medicare's drug coverage,...

Health Reform in Chart Format

Posted on June 22, 2009
ThinkProgress provides a helpful chart of the differing health reform plans. the Senate Finance Draft, the Tri House Bill, and HELP Bill current being considered in Congress. Here is a brief discussion of the Tri House Bill and you can...

The Swine Flu Remains Active

Posted on June 21, 2009
The CDC Press Briefing from last week reminds Americans that the H1N1/Swine Flu continues to spread. The briefing transript provides, In terms of the numbers of infections that have been laboratory confirmed as H1N1, there are now more than 17,800...

Cloning Animals For Traits?

Posted on June 20, 2009
The LATimes reports on a new twist in animal cloning, Even in the sometimes bizarre world of novelty animal cloning, this case is expected to generate debate and curiosity. The Northern California cloning firm BioArts International is holding a news....

Health Insurance CEOs - The Reason So Many People Support Health Reform?

Posted on June 19, 2009
Kevin Drum writing at Mother Jones reports on the recent hearing on health insurance: Yesterday the House Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations decided to investigate the practice of recission. This is when you pay your premiums for years to a...

Health Stocks and Health Reform

Posted on June 19, 2009
Kaiser Health News reports on recent market activity in the health sector - Setbacks for Democrats on health reforms earlier this week ? including delays in one Senate committee and a higher-than-expected cost estimate in another ? are good for...

Health Reform: On Life Support

Posted on June 18, 2009
Talkingpointsmemo.com links to the New York Times report on the health reform effort and how things are not looking too good right now. What?s the latest assessment from those closely monitoring health care reform? Prognosis negative. ?Health reform is, I...

The Daily Show on Health Care Reform

Posted on June 18, 2009
Jon Stewart had a fun look at President Obama's speech before the AMA and some of the talking points provided by politicians on the public option. Click here to view.

Atul Gawande on Fresh Air

Posted on June 17, 2009
Dr. Gawande will discuss his New Yorker article, The Cost Conundrum, on NPR's Fresh Air today. In "The Cost Conundrum," his latest article for The New Yorker, staff writer Dr. Atul Gawande reports from McAllen, Texas, a border-town with the...

File under - if it sounds to good to be true ...

Posted on June 16, 2009
The New York Times science section contains an article concerning the science behind those studies alleging showing that moderate drinking is good for you. Apparently, the science may be a little weak ... Study after study suggests that alcohol in...

Peer Review Journal-Pace Environmental Law Review

Posted on June 16, 2009
For those of you who publish or wish to publish in environmental law - here is some exciting news: Pace Environmental Law Review Announces Shift to Peer-Review Established in 1982, PELR was one of the first scholarly environmental law journals....

President Obama Speaks to the AMA -The Public Option

Posted on June 15, 2009
Earlier today, President Obama spoke to the AMA about health care reform. Sam Stein at the Huffingtonpost.com reports, President Obama walked into the lion's den on Monday, delivering a lengthy speech on his approach to health care reform in front...

Taxing Health Benefits ...

Posted on June 15, 2009
Over the weekend, there was some discussion of whether taxing employer-provided health benefits should be considered but that idea does not seem to be terribly popular. The Associated Press reports, Lawmakers and administration officials on Sunday distanced themselves from the...

New Study: Ice Cream Favorites Divided by Male/Female

Posted on June 14, 2009
Majikthise helpfully points out an interesting study that breaks down the types of ice cream favored by men and women. The study report states, Mintel has released new findings about the varying ice cream preferences of men and women. According...

What is socialized medicine?

Posted on June 13, 2009
Ezra Klein on socialized medicine The words "socialized medicine" and"single-payer health care" get thrown around with such gleeful abandon that they've both become a bit unmoored from their actual meanings. In the American health-care debate, they tend to refer to...

E-mail, Facebook, Twitter and Medical Care

Posted on June 12, 2009
The New York Times reports on new ways that doctors and patients interact. Dr. Pauline Chen writes, I blog, I tweet and I use Facebook. And as I recently told a medical colleague, social media has been an enormously useful...

Flu Pandemic

Posted on June 12, 2009
Yesterday, the World Health Organization declared a swine flu pandemic. The New York Times reports, The disease has reached 74 countries, and probably met the technical definition of a pandemic ? or global spread ? weeks ago. Nearly 30,000 cases...

Senate Passes Tobacco Regulation Legislation

Posted on June 11, 2009
The Wall Street Journal on-line reports that the Senate passed the tobacco regulation legislation and states, The Senate overwhelmingly passed historic legislation Thursday that puts the tobacco industry under the regulation of the Food and Drug Administration...

The AMA and a Public Health Care Option

Posted on June 11, 2009
The New York Times reported today that the AMA does not support a public health care option. Robert Pear writes, As the health care debate heats up, the American Medical Association is letting Congress know that it will oppose creation...

Diane Rehm on Tobacco Regulation

Posted on June 10, 2009
Diane Rehm's show today will discuss Congress' effort to regulate tobacco. 10:00 Regulating Tobacco Congress seems poised to give the F-D-A authority to regulate how cigarettes are labeled and marketed. We'll discuss possible implications of federal control over tobacco products...

Tale of Health Insurance Renewal

Posted on June 10, 2009
DailyKos' Sarge in Seattle writes about the annual health insurance renewal process for his small business and states, Jennifer Xxxxx, RHU, and Rebecca Xxxxxx, SPHR opened the discussion, as always, with "good news and bad news". The bad news being,....

New Health Care Blog at Washington Post

Posted on June 09, 2009
The Washington Post, already doing a wonderful job on the health care debate with Ezra Klein, has a new blog - the Health Care Rx - that provides a great overview of what certain players within the health care industry...

Some Draft Health Care Legislation

Posted on June 09, 2009
Ezra Klein helpfully links to the Health, Education, Labor and Pension Committee's --- 600 page draft health care reform legislation. He writes, It's the preliminary first draft of the Health, Education, Labor, and Pension Committee's bill (there are still some...

Some Benefits of the a Public Health Plan Explained

Posted on June 08, 2009
Ezra Klein provides an excellent overview of a public health plan. He writes, The private insurance market is a mess. It's supposed to cover the sick and instead competes to insure the well. It employs platoons of adjusters whose sole...

Draft of Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee -- American Health Choices Act

Posted on June 08, 2009
ThinkProgress provides information on the draft health reform bill put forward by the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee in the Senate. The legislation is entitled the "American Health Choices Act" and contains provisions concerning universal coverage and a public...

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