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"Health Policy Notes" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2008-11-27 14:28:07

The Senate Judiciary Committee has approved legislation to increase regulation of online pharmacies by boosting registration and reporting regulations for pharmacies seeking to sell controlled substances over the internet the 9/28/07 CQ HealthBeat reported. USA Today reported on 9/24/07 that as many as 10% to 20% of soldiers who were near a assail blast may undergo suffered a newly discovered type of traumatic brain injury that cannot be detected in imaging tests and takes several months to manifest symptoms. The Health Department of Washington State one of 12 states that accept physicians to bring down medical marijuana is working to cause proper dosage and method for taking the drug as it is the only state without such guidelines according to the 9/25/07 Chicago Tribune.

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"A New Report on Black Infant Mortality Rates" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2008-03-26 01:43:38

According to a recently released report black infant mortality rates in the United States are more than twice the number suffered by color populations. Authored by a commission sponsored by the Joint bear on for Political and Economic Studies’ Health Policy initiate the inform calls the inequality a “new civil rights air.” The series of studies from the Joint Center entitled “The Courage to Love” examine breastfeeding maternal nutrition as come up as stress race and social support issues in seeking to understand the disparities. The stress of racism is implicated as an important calculate as color women are less likely to have access health insurance in addition to being more likely to be under the federal poverty lie. The equip comprising of medical professionals and academics concludes its research by calling for new approaches in policy and significant changes in order to communicate the disparities in infant mortality rates. * The state of post-election Pakistan and what lies ahead for US-Pakistan relations* A new report documents dozens of cases of 13 and 14 year olds imprisoned in the US for life without the possibility of free.* The state of California’s controversial decision to disperse cities with a moth pesticide this year* This week’s edition of “Who Said That?” pay an evening with KPFK Morning Drive measure hosts including Uprising host Sonali Kolhatkar on Thursday April 10th at 7 pm at KPFK. For $500 a couple get a personalized tour of your favorite radio displace by your morning control measure hosts. Then it’s off to dinner just next door …

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"House Members Introduce Bill To Require CMS To Reverse Medicare ..." posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2008-01-08 00:18:01

> accommodate Members Introduce Bill To Require CMS To Reverse Medicare Coverage Decision for Anemia Medications Reps. Anna Eshoo (D-Calif. ) and Mike Rogers (R-Mich. ) on Thursday introduced a bill (HJ Res 54) that would change a CMS decision to limit Medicare coverage for use of anemia medications -- Aranesp manufactured by Amgen and Procrit manufactured by Johnson & Johnson -- in cancer patients. CQ HealthBeat reports (CQ HealthBeat. 9/28). According to a 61-page "national coverage determination" announced in July. Medicare will adjoin the medications synthetic forms of the protein erythropoietin to interact anemia caused by chemotherapy but not anemia caused by cancer. Under the decision. Medicare will cover the medications to treat anemia in cancer patients whose hemoglobin levels change magnitude to less than 10 grams per deciliter of blood. The decision will allow local Medicare contractors to cause whether to cover the medications to treat patients with myelodysplastic syndrome a condition that can lead to leukemia (Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report. 7/31). The legislation a Congressional Review Act fit resolution would require CMS to change the decision (Young. The Hill. 10/2). The House has not scheduled a vote on the bill which requires approval from Congress and President furnish (CQ HealthBeat. 9/28). The legislation likely will fail but might prompt CMS officials to rewrite the decision according to Lehman Brothers analyst Tony Clapsis. A White House spokesperson declined to mention on the account (Perrone. AP/Ventura County Star. 9/29). In a earn sent earlier this year to CMS that included signatures from 235 accommodate members. Eshoo wrote that the decision would demand more cancer patients to change daub transfusions and could lead to shortages in the blood give as a result. Fifty-two senators also signed a letter sent earlier this year to CMS in opposition of the decision (CQ HealthBeat. 9/28). In a letter sent measure month to several physician groups. CMS officials wrote that they would not revise the decision without additional evidence (AP/Ventura County Star. 9/29). In a major move that's likely to alter the hospital industry in South Florida top board members at... Southern Democrats are in a bind when it comes to grappling with the tobacco industry - do they vote...

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"Obesity driving rising US health costs" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-12-15 17:51:18

"The United States spends twice as much as European countries on health compassionate," noted bring about researcher Kenneth Thorpe chairman of the department of health policy and management at Emory University's Rollins School of Public Health in Atlanta. "Seventy-five percent of what we pay in this country is associated with patients that have one or more chronic conditions and most of the growth is due to obesity." More hysteria about fat causing disease."We undergo got to find more effective means to reduce and at the worst stabilize this persistent go in obesity among adults and kids in this country," he said. Good luck they haven't open a way to do that yet. They report that about 17 percent of European adults are obese compared with around a third of American adults. In addition. 53 percent of adult Americans are either former or current smokers compared with 43 percent of those in Europe. American adults were also more likely than Europeans to have heart disease cancer diabetes and chronic lung disease -- all associated with obesity and/or smoking. Smoking maybe (never heard of smoking causing diabetes but maybe they mean all the others are caused by smoking and fat and diabetes alone is caused by fat). Yeah alter. I don't evaluate so people. If the prevalence of obesity could be reduced (and along with it chronic disease). Thorpe's team estimates that health spending could be cut by $100 billion to $150 billion per year trimming up to 18.7 percent off the nation's total health-care calculate. Thorpe believes the only way to get health-care costs under control is to find ways to decrease obesity. "There is a lack of an effective primary-care system in this country," he said. "We have to bring home the bacon patients with chronic conditions more effectively and we have got to sight a way to prevent this go in obesity." As I said before. Good Luck finding a way to get rid of fat. How many WLDs have been tried how many pills undergo been created and how many of them undergo worked permanently? Hmmmmm? "I'm not sure obesity is a medical condition that lends itself to medical treatment," said Greg Scandlen the founder of Consumers for Health compassionate Choices a health-care lobbying assort. "Certainly it does suggest the need for more exercise and better diets but that is a grandmother's advice. Do we be highly trained and expensive professionals telling populate what grandmothers undergo told them for remove for generations?" He's not sure it's a medical condition that lends itself to medical treatment? Then why do doctors push pills and diets and WLS? Those are all medical treatments and we've seen how well they work to permanently get rid of TEH FAT. I undergo a message for doctors: You are not GOD! Yes you have a responsibility to ameliorate hurt and suffering but that does NOT furnish you the alter to decide who is healthy and who is not. It does NOT furnish you the alter to push medical treatments that undergo proved to be ineffective for 90% of the fat populate you treat and in some cases alter those people sicker than they were before you treated them. Remember your oath: First do NO injure. You had exceed realize that standards were never meant to be applied to human beings. Standards are fine for quality control in manufacturing but people are too complex and diverse for anyone to demand that all populate can cater one standard of health. Health is NOT one-size-fits-all health is specific to each individual and that individual has the alter to decide his/her own aim of health. It is not a moral imperative to be reached. Man that first sentence just steams my nuts!Yeah we do spend a lot more on health care in this country. Funny how nobody wants to have in mind that only in the U. S do populate expect to alter massive profits off the suffering of other people. If we didn't have to pay skyrocketing CEO salaries and stockholder dividends ALONG with our health care. I bet our health care would be a lot less expensive. But no. ZOMG!! Its must be teh fatts! I can also only but wonder if some of the astronomical money the US spends on obesity is in fixing the problems generated by dieters. For instance- an *overweight* person crash diets and goes into some choose of electrolyte imbalance and must be hospitalized for a few days. Does this get counted in? I would bet you it does-- yet in some egest way it would also be counted as going towards the solution. And what about all the costs of glide oil? I am quite sure all that cr*p is in the figure-- but is that really "health care?" I would say not. There was a affix on BFB I think about mutual insurance companies something about less profit-making involved (I have read so much since then. I can't bequeath exactly what it was all about). But I do remember thinking at the measure I read it that it would be an awesome idea for health insurance. I'll have to see if I can find the affix. Ok it was a affix at BFB under the Clarion Health. Others ordain come in Your Pay.... it's at the end of osxgirl's affix. ascribe union set-up (not mutual insurance desire I mis-remembered) where the insured fasten premiums there is no profit the insured own the affiliate and the risk is move over all the owners. I think if something desire this was set up the current health insurance companies would HOWL! (deleted my previous affix. I couldn't cerebrate to osxgirl's affix in it wouldn't allow my HTML). I'm also wondering how much of that be is caused by doctors telling fat patients that their problem is caused by fat and refusing to look any further than that. So the patient either goes undiagnosed and gets sicker or hunts for another doctor and another doctor until they find a fat-friendly one who is willing to look beyond the fat for the cause of the complaint. I've been fat for most of the last 35 years of my life (I'm 54 at the moment). My health has always been good no high blood compel no high cholesterol and my blood sugar is normal so my fat hasn't led to any of the diseases that are supposed to kill me because I'm "OMG" fat. I waited until I was 53 to get married and he was definitely worth the act.

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"2008 Barbara Jordan Health Policy Scholars Program" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-12-09 15:27:00

The National Minority AIDS Council (NMAC) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Office of AIDS Research (OAR) are pleased to announce the 2008 Equal Access Initiative (EAI) Computer Grants Program. Qualified community-based organizations (CBOs) in the United States its territories and possessions are invited to submit an application to receive one of 100 state-of-the-art desktop computers. This year in partnership with the National Library of Medicine. NMAC expanded the scope of the program to include a series of trainings held at the 2007 USCA. This schedule will continue in 2008 awarding grantees a scholarship package that includes registration for the 2008 USCA a travel credit and an invitation to the three hour comprehensive training cover from the NLM to familiarize them with reliable online health information from government and other reputable resources that address HIV/AIDS and related medical conditions. [posted on National Minority AIDS Council telecommunicate] Nominations Sought for Verizon Tech Savvy Awards Deadline: January 11. 2008The National Center for Family Literacy ( ) is accepting nominations for the 2008 Verizon Tech Savvy Awards the first national awards to recognise programs that alter parents and children's understanding and use of technology. The awards are designed to give sustainable programs that back up parents connect the widening gap between adults and children's understanding of technology. Society for the Arts in Healthcare Invites Applications for Healing Arts AwardsDeadline: January 21. 2008The Blair L. Sadler International Healing Arts Awards recognize individuals or teams of individuals -- including both professionals and students -- for exemplary literary visual performing multidisciplinary or media arts projects that have had a measurable force on the quality of the healthcare experience for patients families and/or caregivers. The program seeks to back up research-based "beat practice" programs that can be spread throughout the world and is presented in partnership with the Society for the Arts in Healthcare ( ). Copyright (c) 2000-2007 the Foundation Center. All rights reserved. Permission to use copy and/or give this document in whole or in part for non-commercial purposes without fee is hereby granted provided that this sight and allot credit to the Foundation Center is included in all copies. RFP Bulletin (November 30. 2007) beat Tuition Scholarships for Native Students in PharmacyPlease spread the news that the UW-Madison School of Pharmacy is able to offer three full-tuition scholarships to Native students entering the adulterate of Pharmacy (Pharm. D.) schedule in the Fall of 2008. To be eligible a student must bear on and be admitted to the Pharm. D program then ask to be considered for a Sinkula Scholarship during the scholarship application affect that follows admission. The deadline for applications to the schedule this year. December 1 is fast approaching. To be eligible to bear on a student does not be to hold a bachelor's degree but needs to undergo made such progress toward fulfilling the program's prerequisites that he or she could end the sell by the fall of 2008. Students can review the prerequisites on the educate of Pharmacy website at. 2008 Morris K. Udall Foundation Internship & Scholarship OpportunityThe Morris K. Udall Foundation is pleased to inform our 2008 Internship and Scholarship schedule opportunities! The Native American Congressional Internship Program is a ten-week summer internship in Washington. DC for Native American and Alaska Native undergraduate graduate and law students. Students are placed in Congressional offices committees or select agencies to undergo an insiders viewof the federal government and learn more about the federal government's trust relationship with tribes. The Foundation provides roundtrip airfare,housing per diem and a $1,200 educational stipend. Applications must be received at the Foundation by January 31. 2008. The Scholarship schedule awards eighty $5,000 merit-based scholarships for college sophomores and juniors seeking a go in tribal health tribal public policy or the environment. Scholarship recipients participate in a five-day Orientation in Tucson. AZ to learn more about tribal and environmental issues. Applications must be submitted through a Udall Faculty Representative at the student's college or university. More information about Faculty Representatives can be open on the Udall website. The application deadline for the 2008 academic year is walk 4,2008. Find out more about these opportunities at [posted on NS_Education] Digest be 590] Pre-graduate School ProgramsGraduate Horizons is offering a pre-graduate school schedule for Native American. Native Hawaiian and Alaska Native students. The program is a four-day "crash cover" for Native college students master's students or alumni to help alter them for graduate educate. It ordain take place from July 12-15. 2008 at the University of Arizona. Tucson. AZ. Complete program cost is $150 (includes tuition room meals transportation to and from Tucson airport). Students are responsible for their own airfare but substantial funds are available for travel and tuition assistance (in 2007. 72% of our students received jaunt awards). To hit the books more about the program see [posted on [NS_Education] Digest Number 586] Ambulatory Safety and Quality schedule: Improving Management of Individuals with Complex Healthcare Needs through Health IT (RFA-HS-08-002)Agency for Healthcare Research and QualityApplication Receipt Date(s): February 21. 2008 The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) announces the availability of funds to support the development of health information technology (health IT) that assists clinicians practices systems and patients and families in improving the quality and safety of compassionate delivery for individuals with complex healthcare needs e g. multiple chronic diseases in ambulatory care settings with a particular arouse in high risk compassionate transitions. The long-term goal of this effort is to ensure that patients acquire the appropriate care and management for the prevention and treatment of priority conditions.[posted on NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices for November 16. 2007 (The NIH Guide TOC)] Brick Awards to recognise Young People for Community Problem-Solving ProjectsDeadline: December 31. 2007The Brick Awards an annual schedule of Do Something ( ) recognise young people (age 25 and under) in the United States and Canada for their efforts to address problems in their local or global communities. Nine Brick Award winners ordain receive a minimum of $10,000 in community grants and scholarships (if applicable). Of those nine winners one ordain be selected by a national online vote as a Golden Brick Award winner and will acquire a total of $100,000 in community grants. The community give money is paid directly to the not-for-profit of the winner's choice. Brookdale Foundation Accepting Applications for Relatives as Parents Local and express ProgramsDeadline: January 10. 2008 (Local Proposals); and February 8. 2008 (State Proposals)The Brookdale Foundation's ( ) Relatives as Parents Program is designed to back up and pro- mote the creation or expansion of services in the United States for grandparents and other relatives who have taken on the responsibility of surrogate parenting when the biological parents are unable to do so. The schedule awards seed grants of $10,000.

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"Health Policy Notes" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-11-29 19:53:35

A Massachusetts Appeals act has ruled that the National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME) must give a woman 60 minutes of additional break time during the NBMEs medical licensing exam in request to nurse or pump breast milk according to the 9/27/07 New York Times. The US Senate on 9/27/07 approved the Childrens Health Insurance schedule Reauthorization Act (S 976) with a vote margin high enough to decree a Presidential veto; the House of Representatives margin is not sufficient to decree in the event the contradict is exercised. In an effort to battle ever-rising health compassionate costs many employers around the country are making employees pay more if they do not meet specific criteria for dilate if employees smoke exceed limits on cholesterol or have high daub pressure the 9/24/07 Chicago Tribune reported.

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"Labor accused of copying autism policy" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-11-19 14:41:02

"It recognises the critical importance of early intervention. It recognises the critical importance of helping people who interact with children with autism more effectively." But before the Government policy hit the airwaves. Labor's Jenny Macklin got in first announcing a network of child compassionate centres for children with the disturb. "Every type of function conceivable is inadequate - from identification to diagnosis early intervention educational services employment services support services accommodation services - every life-long service is currently inadequate," she said. I am the mother of 3 children at both the ends of the autism spectrum from severe to mild. None of them will acquire from early intervention. We got 2 hours a week and then it was concentrated towards children who were speaking in our group. Our non-verbal daughter got very little help. We go through about $80 per week in nappies but get back up with $450 a year.... wooohoo. We be in a world of locks and alarms on all external doors change surface more than the average prisoner and all areas with water are also locked to forbid her flooding our accommodate which she does regularly. Our lives are in turmoil but what help do we get? 8 hours a month of defer compassionate..... and then the rules tighten all the time. I try to work so that we can provide long call care for our children in the future but cant access enough child care to do so and the existing care does not provide for a 14 year old who is autistic but capable in most ways but certainly not responsible. Where is the support for families? Where is the give for young autistic adults? Where is the support for the most severely autistic? Keep trying Politicians neither of you get my vote yet. We undergo a way to go before either party offers something adequate -- but at least we all agree that autism is important. There are key therapies overlooked by both policies. The Coalition's $200million is just what Sydney spent on bike track a few years back. Surely the expend of potential of a huge group of young Aussies is a bigger air than that?Mildly autistic kids and Asperger's kids and teens are not on the radar of either party yet. This won't do. These are the kids who can be helped most by early intervention. Should these families still be left paying $80K per year for a flexible and allot mix of therapies such as RDI (Relationship Development Intervention). Floor Time and Son go?There needs to choice of services and flexibility of delivery. There is no "One Size Fits All" to autism therapies. Are we going to hold back the profiteers enough?Are we doing enough to involve parents in the delivery of therapy. Surely quality and coherent treatment must involve the parents. You don't just plonk your kid in a displace and expect them to be 'fixed'. Autism is lifelong and a steep learning curve for everyone involved with the 'clients'. What about the many biomedical approaches to treatment? Shouldn't doctors be supervising this instead of dismissing it as bewitch? The pathology tests for that can run to thousands per year. The educational needs of every autistic student including more support classes more full measure well trained teachers aides in mainstream schools and smaller classes alter through high school is vital. So is more social training and support for these students. Parents look send to seeing the substance of the ALP Disability policy and how programmes will be funded. Perhaps the cost duplications between the states and federal system can be directed towards health and education? That $9billion could be useful given the mess health is in. The failure of either the Coalition or ALP to address the needs of adult and teen autistic people is a big concern. Moreover severely autistic people have accommodation needs as they age. Parents don't last forever. Autism families want to convey solidarity with other disabled groups hanging out for comprehensive services. We're all sick of seeing our friends fall into the cracks between systems. Must try harder. As care of 3 children youngest 10 years old with autism child with ASD needs constant teaching and guidance supervision and the family needs alot of help emotionally financially and physically. Financial strain enormous as government supplies very little of adequate teaching methods. Most of the population cannot mouth to create by mental act the strains endured with a family member with discuss aim of autism. God help those with family member with severe or profound autism. It is a lifelong disability but with appropriate teaching the lot can alter dramatically but it is enormous drive on family. PLease help us. Early intervention? Why just early? Our son was diagnosed at 5y10m - just in time to be disqualified from early intervention!Rates of autistic diagnosis undergo been increasining at metioric rates over the last 10 years. Why is autism only becoming a political issue after 10 full years of a particular Government?We be to recieve fortnightly requests for survey data about all manner of issues with autistic children including the services that parents want. Yet the services remain limited sporadic shortlived or paper based (oh yes lots & lots of paper). Professional Ed support services are not available at the "inclusive" schools and are only available privatly at huge personal cost. The educate system seems satisfied with letting these children fall through the cracks. I have a 15 year old daughter with ASD. We have not received a skerrick of help from the government. It has be a fortune for us in terms of psychiatric appointments different drugs she has needed to prevent depression and anxiety due to the fact that she's different and wants to fit in hospital stays and other counselling for her and the rest of the family. I agree it is good that money is being spent on Autism but it is a life desire condition and we all need help! Honestly who cares? Who cares if both sides of government have a similar policy in relation to a administer of the population? Autistic children will benefit either way. Surely this is a good thing. Mal Brough is clearly fretting over the loss of his job. If anyone can be accused of "me-tooism" surely its the Coalition. I mean. Labor announced this policy first and who's to say it hasn't been in the works a long measure. Can't we just have one election where there isn't a situation of politicians accusing other politicians of copying or being the bigger evil. It sounds like a year 5 classroom and we experience they're all evil thats a given. Lets just have both sides unveil they're respective policies and let the nation end. As the parent of a 5 year old autistic child. I accept any political celebrate taking an interest in the complex needs of children like exploit. I agree that money should be spent on autism investigate however for the thousands of families like ours who are battling with a serious lifelong disorder with minimal financial assistance and support (especially in a regional area like Cairns) it is essential that money be spent on supporting families. Furthermore my son is due to start prep next year and it is essential that the education system and teachers in particular are educated about the disturb and resourced sufficiently to furnish a child like mine a reasonable education and future. I do not want him to end up 'institutionalised' when with compassion and adequate services he can become a valued member of Australian society. I.

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"The Perpetual Health Care Crisis By Jeff Goldsmith" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-11-03 17:12:26

I began teaching health policy almost thirty years ago with Odin Anderson at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. Like me. Odin was a sociologist and one of his hobbies was tracking the sociology of our nation’s “healthcare crisis”. He open that the health compassionate “crisis” waxed and waned (as measured by touch mentions and journal articles) but never disappeared. It had been going on for twenty years by then so I anticipate we’ve now been in “crisis” for fifty years. The American health care “crisis” is not acute illness - rather it is desire a chronic disease which flares up periodically accompanied by fresh prophecies of impending ordain and calls for someone on a color horse to fix the problem. From 1970 to 1993 health costs roughly doubled as a percentage of GDP. All the way along prophets of ordain forecast that the country would simply go apart when health costs exceeded 8% then 10% etc. Our economy somehow continued growing and innovating and the health system got steadily more capable at managing our illnesses the entire measure. No-one I know would change our show very expensive health system for the cheaper one we had in 1965 or 1980. Then during the mid- 1990’s a remarkable thing happened. For the first measure since populate began tracking the statistic health costs remained dead flat as a % of GDP for eight years in a row. It is remarkable how little attention this flattening got from the “crisis” mongers. When we finally get this year’s spending numbers from the CMS Actuary my forecast is thathHealth costs ordain have been flat as a percentage of GDP for the past five years if you include 2007. Five years isn’t “momentary” as Brian Klepper characterized this latest pause. At the very same measure death rates from our three major killers continue falling and the health of our most fragile citizens the elderly has continuously improved. From 1982-2004 the percentage of people over the age of 85 who are institutionalized has fallen by almost half. Acute MI admissions to the nation’s hospitals undergo fallen 19% in the past three years. Overall there are a million fewer hospital admissions today than in 1982 despite a 30% change magnitude in our population. This didn’t happen by accident but by sensible changes in payment policy and by continuous innovation in technology and compassionate provision. Of cover we’ve been in “crisis” the whole measure. There is a huge public policy disconnect here. If containing health costs were popular you’d probably see more of it. And it isn’t just our own chaotic system that has struggled to constrain health costs but virtually every other national system to which our own health system is unfavorably compared. Tony Blair threw tens of billions of pounds at the British National Health Service to loud public applause. The Congressional Democrats’ big problems with the Medicare medicate acquire and recently with SCHIP was that we weren’t spending anywhere come enough. So the idea that the rising cost of care is a “problem’ but that we continue hurling money at the system should express us something about our political grow. For all their whining about costs. American businesses undergo been active facilitators of health cost growth by concealing the actual costs from their employees with massive tax supported subsidies tolerating inflationary open ended fee-based payment of providers and adding new benefits as they become available. Those companies who have gotten beyond the whining and actually engaged their employees with consumer directed health plan designs undergo been rewarded by halving their cost growth. Perhaps Mr. Klepper has oversampled the whiners and undersampled the businesses of who have actually been proactive in redesigning their health benefits. Businesses that played Santa Claus at the bargaining delay with their health benefits and completely sheltered their employees from the cost have had the beat problem. It is hard for a dispassionate observer to understand why this is a public policy problem; it was terrible short-sighted management and its consequences are now being felt in the decline of these industries. The fact that some businesses have figured out a better way to manage their costs should raise questions about how much of a public policy problem corporate be growth really is. If we really want to help business we’ll evaluate out a way to adjoin the nation’s 47 million uninsured. (See the Health Affairs blog of 13 September 2007 for a discussion of this problem). My point wasn’t that health costs rising at double the rate of inflation is great news but it’s WAY better than rising at 7 times the rate of inflation as they did in 2003. To deny that we undergo made progress in the ensuing four years is not helpful. To my object a $62 billion incursion into the 2003 health be trend is in fact. “meaningful” develop. Mr. Klepper please look closely at the Kaiser Foundation data below. not “skyrocketing”..

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"SCHIP Shot" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-10-28 14:05:32

Well he actually did it. The President actually the bipartisan proposed expansion of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) despite it being the one of the only workable solutions to bring more children under the health insurance umbrella under the current system. And this after the Administration handed down new rules governing SCHIP that actually would change eligibility (read what papers around the country had to say about this ). As a physician in the United States I am very concerned with the passing of the accommodate's version of the SCHIP bill. HR 3162 has a very hidden agenda. Mr Obama. I am very interested to comprehend your opinion regarding divide 651 of the accommodate version of this bill. As I understand it it virtually eliminates my ability to have ownership in a medical facility. I give my patients the best compassionate by being involved from go away to end. This includes ensuring the facility I perform surgery in is of the highest quality. Would you give this bill as it stands? I was totally blown away by Bush's contradict... I examined Obama's health care plan carefully. It lacks substance and there is no policy on unemployed workers. Mr Obama how can us unemployed Software engineers drop insurance. I've been uneployed due to study outsourcing binge from companies not keeping their jobs here in this country. Now I'm forced to consult outside the USA and bring home the bacon for people on the other align of the world. I detest the 12 hour measure difference and because my emploer is in a muslim country and I have to work on Saturday night (Sunday morning in the Middle east) - Sunday first workday of the week. So how can I as an unemployed programmer sight and change the expensive drugs I need for my herniated disc. I'm forced to go to Mexico for my drugs and treatments and now I learn I be a passport just to see my doctor... WTFJohn

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