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Assessing the cost of the Affordable Care Act and expanding Medicaid

(Medical Xpress)—Extending Medicaid coverage to currently uninsured adults is likely to increase the cost of the program, according to health policy researchers, because those patients are prone to have more expensive health ...

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New research on employment-based insurance sheds light on health care reform

Men with employment-contingent health insurance (ECHI) who suffer a health shock, such as a cancer diagnosis or hospitalization, are more likely to feel "locked" into remaining at work and are at greater risk for losing their ...

Health created Nov 02, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Medicare: Barrier to hospice increases hospitalization

(Medical Xpress)—A Medicare rule that blocks thousands of nursing home residents from receiving simultaneous reimbursement for hospice and skilled nursing facility (SNF) care at the end of life may result ...

Health created Oct 31, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Partisanship guides americans' attitudes on health-care reform law: poll

(HealthDay)—Two years after it was signed into law, Americans' views on the Affordable Care Act continue to track along party lines, even among those who say they've personally been affected by the controversial ...

Health created Oct 25, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Health care history through humor

Featuring more than 200 examples of the century's best political art, a new history of health care reform provides an entertaining review of 100 years of partisan wrangling – from Theodore Roosevelt's support ...

Health created Oct 25, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Survival of the affordable care act assessed in new commentaries

As the presidential candidates clash over the fate of the Affordable Care Act, a set of seven essays by leading legal experts, economists, and scholars examines the implications of the Supreme Court's decision on the ACA ...

Health created Oct 24, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

3L tubular bandaging significantly improves healing of chronic wounds, study finds

(Medical Xpress)—A characteristically inflamed, weeping sore that fails to heal, heals slowly or tends to recur is known as a chronic wound, a common debilitating and painful medical condition which requires ...

Medical research created Oct 18, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Analysis finds likely voters rank health care second most important issue in presidential choice

A new analysis of 37 national opinion polls conducted by 17 survey organizations finds that health care is the second most important issue for likely voters in deciding their 2012 presidential vote. This is the highest that ...

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New analysis of presidential candidates' health care plans estimates uninsured by 2022

The number of uninsured individuals is estimated to increase in every state and to 72 million nationwide—with children and low- and middle-income Americans particularly hard hit—under Governor Mitt Romney's plan to repeal ...

Health created Oct 02, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New study identifies large gaps in lifetime earnings of specialist and primary-care physicians

A national study has found that earnings over the course of the careers of primary-care physicians averaged as much as $2.8 million less than the earnings of their specialist colleagues, potentially making primary care a ...

Health created Sep 28, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Poll: Most see health law being implemented

(AP)—Americans may not be all that crazy about President Barack Obama's health care law, but a new poll shows they don't see it going away.

Health created Sep 26, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Young cancer survivors often forgo medical care due to costs

Many survivors of adolescent and young adult cancers avoid routine medical care because it's too expensive, despite the fact that most have health insurance. That is the conclusion of a new study published early online in ...

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Health reform 2.0: Governors pushing back on Medicaid expansion

(HealthDay)—The Obama administration snatched victory in the battle over health reform when the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the president's controversial health law earlier this year.

Health created Sep 20, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Survival of safety-net hospitals at risk

Many public safety-net hospitals are likely to face increasing financial and competitive pressures stemming in part from the recent Supreme Court decision on the Affordable Care Act, according to researchers at Penn State ...

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Health reform 2.0: states balking at new insurance exchanges

(HealthDay)—Under the Affordable Care Act, the Obama administration's controversial reform of health care, states are supposed to assist uninsured Americans in buying health coverage by setting up so-called ...

Health created Sep 19, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0