A morning roundup of health policy coverage: Mississippi's legislature passes a bill requiring abortion providers to be board-certified OB-GYNs with local admitting privileges, and a report finds chemotherapy costs about 24 percent more in hospital outpatient settings than in doctors' offices.
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Kaiser Health News - 04/04/2012
A roundup of Kaiser Health News reporting: a guide to Medicare restructuring proposals and their timeline, nine physician groups' lists of 45 common tests and treatments they call often unnecessary, and video of President Obama attacking the Republican 2013 budget.
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Kaiser Health News - 04/03/2012
A roundup of the day's health policy headlines, including Medicare's new coverage of annual depression screening, insurers planning around the individual mandate, and Obama calling the House Republican budget a Trojan horse.
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Kaiser Health News - 03/31/12
A Kaiser Health News roundup of coverage after the Supreme Court's marathon arguments on the health law: AP on the justices' low regard for Congress, Politico on Obama's combative fundraiser remarks in Vermont, and the New York Times on a decision expected in June.
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What Hospitals Won't Tell You - Vital Strategies that Could Save Your Life
Andrew Saul, co-author of Hospitals and Health, argues patients should bring a personal advocate and know their rights. The piece cites more than 2 million US hospital-acquired infections a year, 100,000 deaths, and a 2011 estimate of over 40,000 instances of medical harm daily.
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Kaiser Health News - 03/30/2012
A roundup of health policy news, including insurers objecting to the proposed wording of letters accompanying August's rebate checks, and a webcast dissecting the Supreme Court's arguments on the health law.
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The Supreme Court Arguments Are Over - What Happens Now?
A roundup of news coverage after three days of Supreme Court arguments on the health care law, with a decision due in June and commentators reading the justices' questions for signs of a 5-4 split along the lines of who appointed them.
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Webcast Replay: Deconstructing The Supreme Court's Historic Health Law Arguments
A transcript of the Kaiser Health News webcast in which Mary Agnes Carey, Stuart Taylor, Tom Goldstein and Julie Rovner go over the Supreme Court's six hours of arguments on the health law, the fate of the individual mandate and the Medicaid expansion.
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Kaiser Health News - Thursday, March 29, 2012
A Kaiser Health News roundup of coverage from the final day of Supreme Court arguments over the health law, including analysis of severability and the Medicaid expansion, and a report on what the law would still do without the insurance mandate.
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Do you know that the cancer industry can reduce rate of cancer death without even having to treat any cancer?
The site invites readers to email an explanation of why cancer death rates have fallen without better treatment, offering a $50 gift for the most rational answer, and reprints a CDC release reporting continuing declines in U.S. cancer death rates between 2004 and 2008.
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Kaiser Health News - Wednesday, March 28, 2012
A roundup of Kaiser Health News coverage from day two of the Supreme Court arguments over the 2010 health law, including a video interview, a transcript of argument highlights, commentary on conservative justices' questioning of the individual mandate, and a photo gallery from outside the court.
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Kaiser Health News - First Edition - Tuesday, March 27, 2012
A morning roundup of health policy coverage: Indianapolis patients shifting to doctors employed by large health systems, insurers paying cash rewards to members who pick cheaper care, and the first day of Supreme Court arguments over the 2010 health law.
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Tell Your Doctor: If You Don't Show Me This, You're Breaking the Law
Dr. Mercola reports that Colorado's Board of Health is weighing an annual flu shot mandate for healthcare workers with no religious or philosophical exemption, and reminds readers that doctors must hand over the CDC Vaccine Information Statement before vaccinating.
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Medicaid Arguments At Court May Affect Other Federal Programs
A roundup of coverage before the Supreme Court hears the health law case: states argue the Medicaid expansion is unconstitutionally coercive because all their Medicaid money is at risk, Mitch McConnell presses repeal in the GOP weekly address, and papers profile the lawyers arguing it.
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Romney Assails Health Law; Obama Embraces 'Obamacare'
A roundup of coverage of the health law's second anniversary: Romney called it the centerpiece of Obama's failure and promised waivers for all 50 states and Medicaid block grants, without mentioning the individual mandate he signed in Massachusetts.
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Feds To Test Paying For Medicaid Patients With Psychiatric Emergencies
Federal law bars Medicaid reimbursement for patients aged 21 to 64 treated at mental disease institutions with 17 or more beds. CMS is running a demonstration in 11 states and the District of Columbia that lifts that exclusion for emergency psychiatric care to see whether patients do better.
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The Health Law's March Madness
Kaiser Health News collects its coverage of the health law's second anniversary and the Supreme Court arguments, including how insurers, hospitals and drug makers are defending the deals they cut, what happens if the mandate falls, and New Jersey's experience without one.
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House GOP Doctors Say Ryan Medicare Plan Doesn't Reduce Costs Enough
The 21-member House GOP Doctors Caucus wrote to 50 economists and health experts asking for Medicare ideas. Co-chair Rep. Phil Gingrey praised Paul Ryan's premium support plan but said it does not cut costs enough to keep the program sustainable.
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