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Financial incentives may influence frequency of cataract surgery in Medicare and VA health system

Patients seen at private facilities reimbursed by Medicare were more than 550 percent more likely to have routine cataract surgery than those who received their care from the Department of Veterans Affairs, a strong indication that the frequency of cataract surgery may be responsive to financial incentives to either or both the medical facility and the physicians who perform the procedure.

19 Mar 2010

New summit: Health care reform for children in California

“Why California’s Children Need Health Reform,” with special video remarks by U.S. Congresswoman Anna Eshoo.

19 Mar 2010

NAFC to help meet medical needs of people in Atlanta who are without health insurance

While health care reform discussions continue in the nation's capitol, the National Association of Free Clinics is bringing help to the Atlanta area for people without health insurance who are in need of medical care.

19 Mar 2010

STOP Obesity Alliance: Adults lack information about effective weight loss methods and strategies

Primary care physicians agree they have a role in addressing obesity, but say they do not have the right weight management resources. Obese or heavier adults take responsibility for weight loss, but adults who need to lose weight may lack information about effective weight loss methods and strategies. These findings and others come from new research commissioned and released today by the Strategies to Overcome and Prevent Obesity Alliance.

19 Mar 2010

Idaho, Virginia gear up for fight to defeat individual mandate; NY law sets procedure for decisions for unresponsive patients

The Associated Press: "Idaho is leading the charge in a states-rights push to defeat a proposal in Congress that would require people to buy health insurance, a key piece of reforms being pushed by President Barack Obama. Republican Gov. C.L. 'Butch' Otter used a ceremony Wednesday afternoon to become the first governor to sign into law a measure requiring the state attorney general to sue the federal government over any such insurance mandates.

19 Mar 2010

NAMI launches new health education program for people with serious mental illness

The National Alliance on Mental Illness has launched a new health education program to promote sound "mind and body" health practices among individuals who live with serious mental illness.

19 Mar 2010

Judicial Watch files lawsuit against HHS

Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that it filed a lawsuit against the Obama Department of Health and Human Services to obtain documents related to President Obama's closed-door health care meetings with Vice President Biden, HHS Secretary Sebelius, Vice President Biden, Speaker Pelosi, Majority Leader Reid and union officials in violation of a campaign promise to broadcast all health care discussions on C-SPAN.

19 Mar 2010

Catholic nuns, some Catholic lawmakers, announce support for health care overhaul

The Los Angeles Times: "Their numbers and influence may be declining, but American nuns demonstrated Wednesday what generations of schoolchildren already knew: They are a force to be reckoned with. By sending a letter to Congress in support of the Senate healthcare bill, a wide coalition of nuns took sides against not only the Republican minority but against their own church hierarchy, as represented by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, which opposes the bill.

19 Mar 2010

Congress should cast final votes to get comprehensive health care reform enacted into law, ACP

The American College of Physicians, representing 129,000 internal medicine physician and medical student members, said today that Congress should cast the final votes needed to get comprehensive health care reform enacted into law. Without reform, ACP said, tens of millions of Americans stand to lose access to affordable health care and out-of-control spending will trigger an unprecedented fiscal and budgetary crisis.

19 Mar 2010

Democrats seeking health care votes get 'yes' from 200 groups

Kaiser Health News staff writer Andrew Villegas reports on organizations which announced support yesterday for the pending health reform proposal.

19 Mar 2010

CHC: Passage of President Obama's health care reform proposal would improve quality of life for Latinos

The Congressional Hispanic Caucus today called for passage of President Obama's health care reform proposal, saying that it would greatly improve the quality of life for millions of Latinos. The measure is expected to expand coverage to 8.8 million Latinos, or 60% of the currently uninsured Hispanic community.

19 Mar 2010

Diabetes patients who have lower tendency to reach out to others have higher mortality rate: Study

Mistrust can exact a high toll. Being overly cautious or dismissive in relating to people, researchers are learning, may shorten the lives of people with diabetes.

19 Mar 2010

Vote count: Obama's lobbying convinces some holdouts to back overhaul, but others still resist

The Washington Post: "President Obama claimed his first convert" - Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, - "on health-care reform Wednesday, as senior Democrats, labor unions and an array of interest groups intensified their efforts to sway wavering lawmakers before a climactic vote in the House this weekend" (Montgomery and Kane, 3/18).

19 Mar 2010

Governor Rendell kicks off 18th birthday celebration for CHIP

Governor Edward G. Rendell today kicked off the 18th birthday celebration for CHIP, Pennsylvania's Children's Health Insurance Program.

19 Mar 2010

House Democrats continue push for weekend House vote on health reform measure

House Democratic leaders continued efforts to pick-up support for health reform in the House while also tinkering around the edges of the overhaul legislative package -- all in anticipation of a Sunday vote in the House.

19 Mar 2010

Members of IAM strongly oppose key provisions of health care reform

Members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) delivered a bipartisan thumping to both political parties as well as the White House in an online survey of workers' attitudes. But there can be no mistaking their strong opposition to key provisions of health care reform.

19 Mar 2010

CBO finds heath overhaul will cost $940 billion over 10 years but trim deficit

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., says the Congressional Budget Office has finished its analysis of the latest Democratic health overhaul bill, Politico is reporting. According to Hoyer, the plan will cost $940 billion over 10 years and will trim the federal deficit by $130 billion in the first 10 years and $1.2 trillion in the second 10 years (Budoff-Brown, 3/18).

19 Mar 2010

Pelosi, Obama defend procedure to pass reform

Roll Call: "Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) dismissed as a 'nonissue' a procedural maneuver House Democrats are eyeing to pass their health care overhaul in the wake of comments by Rep. Stephen Lynch (D-Mass.) that the move would be 'disingenuous' and harm Congressional credibility. House Democrats are considering a process that would allow them to avoid a separate vote on the unpopular Senate version of reform by deeming that measure passed once they approve a package of changes to it.

19 Mar 2010

Report cites rise in uninsured middle-class Americans

A report released Wednesday by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Barely Hanging On: Middle-Class and Uninsured, looks at the rise in the level of uninsured middle-class people in the last eight years.

19 Mar 2010

GOP strategy: Delay, block, repeal

As Democrats focus on advancing health overhaul legislation in the House, Senate Republicans are plotting ways to delay or block the effort, Politico reports. "Republican aides have been mining the Senate's arcane parliamentary rules for an attack that aims at striking elements both broad and narrow from the bill, weakening the measure and ultimately defeating it."

19 Mar 2010

Health Care News and Research

Financial incentives may influence frequency of cataract surgery in Medicare and VA health system

New summit: Health care reform for children in California

NAFC to help meet medical needs of people in Atlanta who are without health insurance

STOP Obesity Alliance: Adults lack information about effective weight loss methods and strategies

Idaho, Virginia gear up for fight to defeat individual mandate; NY law sets procedure for decisions for unresponsive patients

NAMI launches new health education program for people with serious mental illness

Judicial Watch files lawsuit against HHS

Catholic nuns, some Catholic lawmakers, announce support for health care overhaul

Congress should cast final votes to get comprehensive health care reform enacted into law, ACP

Democrats seeking health care votes get 'yes' from 200 groups

CHC: Passage of President Obama's health care reform proposal would improve quality of life for Latinos

Diabetes patients who have lower tendency to reach out to others have higher mortality rate: Study

Vote count: Obama's lobbying convinces some holdouts to back overhaul, but others still resist

Governor Rendell kicks off 18th birthday celebration for CHIP

House Democrats continue push for weekend House vote on health reform measure

Members of IAM strongly oppose key provisions of health care reform

CBO finds heath overhaul will cost $940 billion over 10 years but trim deficit

Pelosi, Obama defend procedure to pass reform

Report cites rise in uninsured middle-class Americans

GOP strategy: Delay, block, repeal

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