Ron Winslow
Also: the mental toll of war on soldiers; five NYC hospitals trying “health courts”; minor league baseball players will be tested for HGH.
Read more this great post here
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JGrimes
Well, there was no breakthrough of understanding between Democrats and Republicans over health care at today’s summit, but there were areas of agreement on some issues. Of course even where there were shared goals, there was division over how to achieve them.
But the aim of the summit was to find shared ground, so […]
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Back in September, the Congressional Budget Office raised its estimate of how much money the feds would save if tort law were changed to reduce liability for doctors and hospitals.
Even the new, higher estimates don’t suggest that tort changes (such as capping noneconomic damages) would be a silver bullet for health costs; […]
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JGrimes
A bunch of pharma CEOs showed up at a meeting the Cleveland Clinic hosted this week.
Being CEOs, they’re not the types to confine themselves to the small picture, and several had suggestions for overhauling the nation’s health-care system, Dow Jones Newswires reports.
Among their suggestions:
Schering-Plough CEO Fred Hassan called for taxes on sugary soft […]
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Jacob Goldstein
Doctors’ decisions to order unneeded and expensive tests out of fear of being sued cost the health-care system a lot of money, an issue that President Obama and others have talked about in the debate on health reform.
But how much so-called defensive medicine are physicians actually practicing? No one actually knows because […]
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JGrimes
President Obama speaks before the American Medical Association today, the nations biggest doctors group that has already come out against aspects of Democrats’ ideas for a government-run health-plan option, but which is less of a political force than it has been in the past.
The AMA now represents only a third of doctors in […]
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JGrimes
It looks like a few rule changes have dramatically lowered the number of malpractice suits filed in Pennsylvania. There were 1,602 filings last year, a 41% decline from the annual average between 2000 and 2002, before the changes were put in place.
One of the new rules requires a “certificate of merit” from a […]
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JGrimes
Could tort reform derail health reform?
The issue of medical malpractice lawsuits is among the touchiest in the debate over rising health-care costs. Doctors are burdened by the high cost of malpractice insurance and say they’re forced to practice “defensive” medicine, while lawyers say the suits are a check in the system meant to […]
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JGrimes
The uninsured and doctors’ malpractice costs are colliding in Pennsylvania.
A group representing Pennsylvania hospitals has petitioned the state’s Commonwealth Court to order Gov. Ed Rendell to fund something called the Mcare Abatement, a Philadelphia Inquirer blog reports. That’s a program that has helped doctors pay for malpractice insurance, but it hasn’t yet been […]
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JGrimes
The uninsured and doctors’ malpractice costs are colliding in Pennsylvania.
A group representing Pennsylvania hospitals has petitioned the state’s Commonwealth Court to order Gov. Ed Rendell to fund something called the Mcare Abatement, a Philadelphia Inquirer blog reports. That’s a program that has helped doctors pay for malpractice insurance, but it hasn’t yet been […]
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