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Pneumococcal pneumonia linked to lung cancer risk

Pneumococcal pneumonia is significantly associated with risk for lung cancer, show findings from a national study in Taiwan.

11 Nov 2013

First Edition: November 11, 2013

Today's headlines include reports about how Republicans are positioning themselves to capitalize on the health law's implementation difficulties in the upcoming election season.

11 Nov 2013

Viewpoints: Campaigning won't help solve health care problems; health law sought 'sturdier safety net;' court's decision on contraception benefit 'goes wrong way'

The Obamacare Web site doesn't work. Hundreds of thousands of insured Americans are seeing their plans summarily terminated. Millions more face the same prospect next year. Confronted with a crisis of governance, how does President Obama respond? He campaigns (Charles Krauthammer, 11/7).

11 Nov 2013

ChinaSoft inks agreement with CITIC 21CN on Pharmaceutical Information Sharing Program

ChinaSoft International Limited, announced that it has signed a strategic agreement with CITIC 21CN Company Limited on the Pharmaceutical Information Sharing Program.

11 Nov 2013

10 GOP senators want Sebelius to be fired; some Democratic senators beginning to press for individual mandate delay

Health law politics are triggering a new wave of political posturing among lawmakers who are attempting to position themselves for the upcoming election season.

11 Nov 2013

Research roundup: Pricing and the SHOP exchange; health use in rural vs. urban areas; the health law and AIDS care

Each week, KHN compiles a selection of recently released health policy studies and briefs.

11 Nov 2013

Obama administration pushes GOP-controlled states to accept Medicaid dollars

The White House is pushing Florida and Louisiana to accept the health law's Medicaid expansion -- and the federal dollars that come with it. In the meantime, lawmakers from New Hampshire and Pennsylvania look for ways their states can also expand the state-federal health care program.

11 Nov 2013

USA Today reports 140,000 people have enrolled in plans on marketplaces run by 13 states

State officials say the numbers are low because of snags in the websites and because consumers aren't yet worried about the sign-up deadline. Other news organizations examine some of the marketplace issues in states.

11 Nov 2013

People with canceled policies could dampen financial risks of online marketplaces

People who had their insurance policies canceled could improve the financial risks for the health law's online marketplace risk pool, a fact often ignored by those hammering the law.

11 Nov 2013

Parity rule affirms equal insurance coverage for mental health care

The regulation, five years in the making, means insurers won't be able to charge higher co-payments or deductibles for mental health services than they charge for treating physical ailments. Here's a sampling of this afternoon's news coverage of the final rule.

11 Nov 2013

Officials acknowledge new capacity problems with Healthcare.gov

New Healthcare.gov capacity problems are emerging -- this time as people trying to sign up for coverage get further along in the process, officials said in a conference call Thursday.

11 Nov 2013

GOP seeking to rebound on the issue of the health law

Republican leaders believe the problems with the rollout of the law's website and the concerns about policy cancellations gives them an opportunity to get beyond complaints about the government shutdown.

10 Nov 2013

Small businesses too are getting insurance cancellation notices

Some small businesses are getting notice of insurance policy cancellations, just like their individual coverage counterparts. Other small business owners continue to wait to learn what options will be available to them through the law's online marketplaces.

10 Nov 2013

Obama apologizes for his 'you can keep it' promise as some Americans face health insurance cancellations

President Barack Obama issued the apology in an interview with NBC News that aired Thursday evening. He also said his administration was working on a fix for the problem.

10 Nov 2013

First Edition: November 8, 2013

Today's headlines include coverage of President Barack Obama's apology to people who lost their individual market health coverage because of requirements of the health law.

8 Nov 2013

Viewpoints: The battle over one woman's medical story; why Mass. didn't see a wave of cancellations; politicians' love of anecdotes

Edie Littlefield Sundby may not have thought she'd ignite a national debate when the stage-4 cancer survivor asked us to publish her Monday op-ed on losing her oncologist due to the Affordable Care Act. But she certainly has, and it's important to understand why. Mrs. Sundby and millions like her must be denied their medical choices if ObamaCare is going to work as its liberal planners intend (11/6).

8 Nov 2013

Sebelius says Healthcare.gov fixes coming, rejects calls for delay

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius sought to reassure lawmakers in a Senate Finance Committee hearing Wednesday that fixes -- hundreds of them -- are being made to Healthcare.gov, but rejected calls to delay the law or shut the website down.

8 Nov 2013

For some republicans, support for Medicaid expansion draws new adversaries

The Los Angeles Times examines the political backlash in Ohio to GOP lawmakers who supported the Medicaid expansion. Meanwhile, CQ HealthBeat reports on efforts to phase-in the electronic data system that will send states information about people who appear to be eligible for Medicaid who have tried to sign up for coverage through healthcare.gov.

8 Nov 2013

Some union health plans could get break from health law's reinsurance fee

Language included in a Health and Human Services regulation released last week indicated that some self-insured, self-administered plans would not have to pay this fee in 2015 or 2016. It is not entirely clear, however, which plans would qualify for this exemption.

8 Nov 2013

Obama in Texas: While defending health law, he went on offense about Medicaid expansion

President Barack Obama continued to lament the problems plaguing the federal online insurance marketplace, but he also scolded the Texas government for its resistance to the health law's Medicaid expansion, which, he said, left more than a million of the state's people uninsured.

8 Nov 2013

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Pneumococcal pneumonia linked to lung cancer risk

First Edition: November 11, 2013

Viewpoints: Campaigning won't help solve health care problems; health law sought 'sturdier safety net;' court's decision on contraception benefit 'goes wrong way'

ChinaSoft inks agreement with CITIC 21CN on Pharmaceutical Information Sharing Program

10 GOP senators want Sebelius to be fired; some Democratic senators beginning to press for individual mandate delay

Research roundup: Pricing and the SHOP exchange; health use in rural vs. urban areas; the health law and AIDS care

Obama administration pushes GOP-controlled states to accept Medicaid dollars

USA Today reports 140,000 people have enrolled in plans on marketplaces run by 13 states

People with canceled policies could dampen financial risks of online marketplaces

Parity rule affirms equal insurance coverage for mental health care

Officials acknowledge new capacity problems with Healthcare.gov

GOP seeking to rebound on the issue of the health law

Small businesses too are getting insurance cancellation notices

Obama apologizes for his 'you can keep it' promise as some Americans face health insurance cancellations

First Edition: November 8, 2013

Viewpoints: The battle over one woman's medical story; why Mass. didn't see a wave of cancellations; politicians' love of anecdotes

Sebelius says Healthcare.gov fixes coming, rejects calls for delay

For some republicans, support for Medicaid expansion draws new adversaries

Some union health plans could get break from health law's reinsurance fee

Obama in Texas: While defending health law, he went on offense about Medicaid expansion

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