Archive for 'Health Care'
Obama Healthy but Struggles With Smoking
Feb 28, 2010 –
Doctors recommend that the president continue his “smoking cessation efforts” and that he change his diet to bring down a cholesterol level that is borderline high. Read more: Obama Healthy but Struggles...
Read MoreHospitals and Doctors Drove Up California Health Costs
Feb 26, 2010 –
By Christopher Weaver Californians outraged over insurance rate hikes may have some new targets. A study just out may direct some of their ire toward doctors and hospitals. The findings, published in...
Read MoreDr. Quentin Young: Put Single Payer Back on the Table
Feb 22, 2010 –
One year after its much-ballyhooed launch, the Obama administration’s approach to health reform is now in serious disarray. The president’s health care summit on Feb. 25 is being portrayed...
Read MoreBig-Employer Health Care Costs Rise 6.5 Percent In 2010: Study
Feb 22, 2010 –
INDIANAPOLIS — A new study says health care costs for large employers will rise more than 6 percent this year, and more companies are thinking about revamping their benefits. The study from benefits...
Read MoreTamara McClintock Greenberg: Can Overweight Women Trust Their Doctors?
Feb 22, 2010 –
Being a doctor these days is hard. But so is being a patient, especially if you happen to be female and overweight. A study last year found that more than 40% of doctors feel “frustrated”...
Read MoreAbdulrahman El-Sayed: Failing the Test: Did Our Discomfort With Numbers Doom Health Reform?
Feb 22, 2010 –
Academic physicians interested in analyzing medical decisions among patients have increasingly turned their attention toward “numeracy,” or facility and ease with numbers, as a predictor of...
Read MoreSahar Sepehri: President Obama, Please Hurry Up
Feb 22, 2010 –
Today President Obama unveiled new healthcare plans, but he will be talking about the details in a couple of days. This proposal supposed to help more than thirty million Americans who need healthcare...
Read MoreQanta Ahmed, MD: Movement As Medicine: Spinning And The Self-Care Movement
Feb 22, 2010 –
I recently wrote about the paradigm-shifting experience of exercise when I stumbled upon SoulCycle. I read about it when Chelsea Clinton held a Haiti fund-raising event there. I thought two things:...
Read MorePresident Obama: Waking the Debate Around Health Care
Feb 19, 2010 –
The health of a people is vital to the health of a nation. As the White House announces President Obama’s plan to post his version of the Health Care Bill on the internet, many Californians face...
Read MoreObama Readies Health Overhaul Proposal Ahead Of Summit
Feb 19, 2010 –
By Scott Hensley Are we the only ones wondering what took the Obama administration so long to lay out its own blueprint for a health overhaul bill? At a media briefing on insurance rate hikes Thursday,...
Read MoreObama Makes Health Care Push At Nevada Town Hall
Feb 19, 2010 –
HENDERSON, Nev. — Days before hosting an intensive health care summit with both Republicans and Democrats, President Barack Obama made a fervent push for his overhaul, calling it critical not just...
Read MoreFeinstein Seeks To Block Insurance Rate Increases Across The Nation
Feb 19, 2010 –
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) said Friday that she plans to introduce legislation that would bar insurance companies from enacting health insurance premium rate increases that the Secretary of the...
Read MorePublic Option Activists Launch ‘Cascade’ Campaign, Polling Effort
Feb 19, 2010 –
Activists hoping to keep up momentum for the late stage push for a public option for insurance coverage are commissioning a set of polls in strategic states to show the level of support for passing the...
Read MoreMedicare Premium Increase: Private Plans Jump 14% In 2010
Feb 18, 2010 –
WASHINGTON — Millions of seniors who signed up for popular private health plans through Medicare are facing sharp premium increases this year – another sign that spiraling costs are a problem even...
Read MoreWellPoint Goes On Offense To Defend Insurance Rates
Feb 18, 2010 –
By Joanne Silberner Giant health insurer WellPoint is putting up its dukes up in defense of higher premiums at its California subsidiary, Anthem Blue Cross. For those new to the fight, last week Health...
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