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New SCHIP enrollees have unmet health care needs

Even with prior private health insurance, patients enrolling in the state children's health insurance program (SCHIP) had unmet health care needs. Instituting a waiting period would further prolong these children's need to address asthma and other chronic health conditions.

5 May 2008

Who pays for health care when workers are uninsured?

Health insurance coverage and unpaid health care for full-time workers and their family members without employer coverage costs the U.S. public $45 billion a year, according to a report from The Commonwealth Fund released today.

2 May 2008

Does it matter that medical graduates don't get jobs as doctors?

In 2007, 1300 UK medical graduates were unable to secure training places, and this shortfall looks set to be repeated this year. But is this a betrayal of students' expectations or is this inevitable if patients are to get the best care?

1 May 2008

Intensive training for medical staff in Latin American hospitals reduces serious complication of pregnancy

An intensive educational program for physicians and midwives involving 19 hospitals in Argentina and Uruguay dramatically reduced the rate of postpartum hemorrhage, according to researchers from the National Institutes of Health and other institutions.

1 May 2008

Patient safety project complete as entire U-M Health System offers online ordering

Nearly three years and thousands of hours later, patient safety received another boost at the University of Michigan Health System as the institution completed implementation of its online order entry system in the University Hospital and the Cardiovascular Center this week.

1 May 2008

Health Minister says rural health in Australia is in a dire state

An audit of regional and rural Australia's health workforce has revealed that the 'bush' has become increasingly reliant on overseas-trained doctors to ensure health services are maintained.

30 Apr 2008

New Jersey official discusses concerns about proposed Medicaid copayments

New Jersey Human Services Commissioner Jenner Velez on Monday said that proposed Medicaid copayments for prescription drugs and some hospital visits raise a "valid concern" that low-income, uninsured residents would forgo medical care, the AP/Philadelphia Inquirer reports.

30 Apr 2008

HHS Secretary Leavitt urges lawmakers, public to 'start now' to make changes to Medicare

HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt said Tuesday that it is "simply unreasonable" to think Medicare can maintain its solvency without changes to the program and that if "we start now, the change can be made over time and with genuine fairness," CQ HealthBeat reports.

30 Apr 2008

Presumptive GOP Presidential nominee McCain provides further detail on his health care proposal

Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) on Tuesday in a speech at the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute in Tampa, Fla., detailed his health care proposal and for the first time proposed a plan to help individuals who cannot obtain private health insurance because of pre-existing medical conditions, the Miami Herald reports (Dorschner, Miami Herald, 4/30).

30 Apr 2008

PBS' 'NewsHour' examines effects of Massachusetts health insurance law two years after enactment

PBS' "NewsHour with Jim Lehrer" on Monday reported on how the Massachusetts health insurance law has affected the state's fiscal situation and uninsurance rates.

30 Apr 2008

Schwarzenegger to attempt second health care proposal

In an interview with the Associated Press on Tuesday, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) said that he would try again to pass legislation to overhaul the state's health care system and that he would not reduce the scale of his plan to get it approved, the AP/San Jose Mercury News reports.

30 Apr 2008

Costs for elder care increase for fifth consecutive year, study finds

Costs for nursing homes, assisted living facilities and some in-home care services have increased for a fifth consecutive year and might continue to increase as a result of an expected shortage of long-term health care workers, according to a study released on Tuesday by Genworth Financial, the AP/Houston Chronicle reports.

30 Apr 2008

More than half of U.S. hospitals insolvent, near insolvency, study finds

More than half of U.S. hospitals are "teetering on the brink of insolvency" or have become insolvent because they do not treat an adequate number of patients to provide sufficient revenue, according to a study recently released by Alvarez & Marsal, the Wall Street Journal reports.

30 Apr 2008

HHS Secretary Leavitt says Bush administration would accept short-term moratorium on two new Medicaid regulations, while five others would take effect

HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt on Tuesday said that the Bush administration would accept a short-term moratorium on two of seven proposed Medicaid regulations to give lawmakers time to reach an agreement on the changes, CongressDaily reports (Johnson, CongressDaily, 4/29).

30 Apr 2008

Newt Gingrich discusses need for more physicians to adopt electronic health record systems

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) on Monday at a health care symposium sponsored by Siemens said that the Bush administration and Congress should do more to implement electronic health records nationwide, the Baltimore Sun reports.

29 Apr 2008

House members discuss SCHIP, Medicare, Medicaid during debate in Cincinnati

A bipartisan group of eight House members on Monday discussed several health care issues -- such as SCHIP, Medicare and Medicaid -- during a debate at Cincinnati Children's Hospital, The Hill reports.

29 Apr 2008

Health care costs rank among top economic problems for U.S. residents

Health care costs are among the top economic problems experienced by U.S. residents, according to a poll released on Tuesday by the Kaiser Family Foundation, the Los Angeles Times reports. For the poll, a nationally representative sample of 2,003 adults was interviewed by telephone between April 3 and 13. The poll has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus three percentage points.

29 Apr 2008

McCain promotes health care proposal at Miami Children's Hospital

Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) on Monday at the Miami Children's Hospital promoted his health care proposal, which he said would "put families in charge," USA Today reports (Jackson, USA Today, 4/29).

29 Apr 2008

Most California voters concerned about health care, would have supported Governor's overhaul plan

More than half of California voters are worried about the state's health care system and nearly three-quarters said they would have approved a health system overhaul proposed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) last year, according to a Field Poll survey released on Monday, the San Francisco Chronicle reports (Yi, San Francisco Chronicle, 4/28).

29 Apr 2008

Number of uninsured U.S. residents projected to rise by 1.1 million for each percentage point increase in unemployment rate

For every one point rise in the U.S. unemployment rate, the number of uninsured is projected to increase by 1.1 million people, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured analysis released Tuesday, the New York Times reports (Sack, New York Times, 4/29).

29 Apr 2008

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New SCHIP enrollees have unmet health care needs

Who pays for health care when workers are uninsured?

Does it matter that medical graduates don't get jobs as doctors?

Intensive training for medical staff in Latin American hospitals reduces serious complication of pregnancy

Patient safety project complete as entire U-M Health System offers online ordering

Health Minister says rural health in Australia is in a dire state

New Jersey official discusses concerns about proposed Medicaid copayments

HHS Secretary Leavitt urges lawmakers, public to 'start now' to make changes to Medicare

Presumptive GOP Presidential nominee McCain provides further detail on his health care proposal

PBS' 'NewsHour' examines effects of Massachusetts health insurance law two years after enactment

Schwarzenegger to attempt second health care proposal

Costs for elder care increase for fifth consecutive year, study finds

More than half of U.S. hospitals insolvent, near insolvency, study finds

HHS Secretary Leavitt says Bush administration would accept short-term moratorium on two new Medicaid regulations, while five others would take effect

Newt Gingrich discusses need for more physicians to adopt electronic health record systems

House members discuss SCHIP, Medicare, Medicaid during debate in Cincinnati

Health care costs rank among top economic problems for U.S. residents

McCain promotes health care proposal at Miami Children's Hospital

Most California voters concerned about health care, would have supported Governor's overhaul plan

Number of uninsured U.S. residents projected to rise by 1.1 million for each percentage point increase in unemployment rate

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