Dr. Mercola criticizes a paper in the AMA's Virtual Mentor that proposes a federal law forcing Americans to make a mandated choice about joining vaccine trials. He argues it would hand drug companies a guaranteed supply of subjects, and reviews the exemptions available to those who refuse.
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States are grappling to implement aspects of the Affordable Care Act.
A roundup of state coverage of the Affordable Care Act, led by a Minnesota bill to create a health insurance exchange that drew rare Republican co-sponsorship, even from a legislator who calls the federal law a scourge and hopes the Supreme Court strikes it down.
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Business and Health Care Costs
In the annual Employer Health Benefits Survey, no cost-control strategy drew more than about a quarter of employers calling it very effective. Disease management led at 26%, consumer-driven plans got 22% and tighter managed care 18%, so firms tend to run several strategies at once.
Healthcare
New Analysis and Interactive Tool Illustrate Variations In How Coverage Expansions Will Affect Local Communities
A Kaiser Family Foundation analysis of more than 2,000 local areas finds up to 40 percent of the non-elderly population in parts of Florida, New Mexico, Texas, Louisiana and California could gain from the ACA's 2014 coverage expansion, against as little as 2 percent in states like Massachusetts.
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President Obama Releases FY13 Budget Proposal With Overall Decrease For GHI
Obama's $3.8 trillion FY2013 budget proposes about $8.5 billion for the Global Health Initiative, more than $300 million below FY2012, with most of the cut from bilateral HIV/AIDS. PEPFAR would take $6.4 billion and the Global Fund $1.65 billion; family planning and GAVI would rise.
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Forbes Examines How Mobile Phones Are Improving Access To Care In Developing World
A Forbes series by Mobiledia describes how people in developing nations use mobile phones to reach health services, highlighting programs in Haiti and Kenya and suggesting mobile banking could let people save toward care or reward parents who immunize children.
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Brief Examines Issues to Consider in Expanding Medicaid Managed Care for People With Disabilities (PR)
A Kaiser Family Foundation brief sets out what states must weigh as more Medicaid beneficiaries with disabilities enter risk-based managed care: setting plan payment rates, building adequate provider networks, and ensuring beneficiary protections and plan oversight.
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Experts Question Medicare's Effort To Rate Hospitals' Patient Safety Records
Medicare's first public ratings of hospital patient safety flagged prestigious teaching institutions including the Cleveland Clinic, Mount Sinai and Massachusetts General. A Kaiser Health News analysis found major teaching hospitals nearly 10 times as likely to be rated poorly.
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How Doctors Do Harm
Mercola argues US medicine is sick care, not health care: Americans spend up to 1.5 times more per person than any other country yet rank 50th in life expectancy and 47th in infant mortality, with avoidable deaths from medical errors, needless surgery and adverse drug reactions.
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FAQ: The Obama Administration's Compromise On Contraception Benefits
A Kaiser Health News Q&A on the Obama administration's revised contraception rule, which shifts the cost to insurers so religious-affiliated employers such as universities and hospitals need not pay, while keeping free coverage for all women.
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How to Tell if Your Doctor is on the Drug Industries' Payroll
A ProPublica investigation found 12 drug companies disclosed more than $761 million in payments to physicians for consulting, speaking and research across 2009 to early 2011, a figure Mercola says is probably higher. Full disclosure rules were set to take effect in March 2013.
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Does health insurance reduce illness-related worker absenteeism?
Tracking 1,780 U.S. workers aged 52 to 62, researchers found insured older workers missed work for illness as often as uninsured ones, with no difference in days missed. Poor baseline health, new disease and longer hospital stays predicted absence instead.
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Toxic Enough to Require Haz-Mat Transport... Yet Safe for You and Your Children?
The WHO's final report on dental restoration materials calls for a switch away from amalgam, noting it releases a significant amount of mercury into the environment and has been associated with general health concerns. An FDA panel urged limits for children and pregnant women in 2010.
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What’s Hot and What’s Not: 2011 Health Care Roundup
Ask a Patient looks back at 2011: the first stem-cell windpipe and stem-cell heart repair, findings favoring chocolate, coffee and wine, listeria in cantaloupes, arsenic worries, drinking tied to slightly higher breast cancer risk, and new tests for Alzheimer's, diabetes and HIV.
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Pediatric Academy Bullies and Seeks to Censor Vaccine Truth
Dr. Mercola reports that the American Academy of Pediatrics, which takes vaccine industry funding, asked Delta Air Lines to pull an inflight flu-prevention video made by the National Vaccine Information Center because it covered handwashing, sleep and diet alongside flu shots.
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Should You Take a Psychiatric Drug For Simple Pain?
Rosenberg accuses WebMD of running damage control for SSRI antidepressants, quoting articles that tell patients not to panic over reports of weight gain, sexual side effects, cost or suicide risk and to keep trying a second or third drug.
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More breast cancer screenings may not render more benefits - study
A Finnish study followed women screened from age 40 and found no significant difference in breast cancer incidence or death between annual and every-three-years mammography. Incidence was 12 percent lower and mortality 20 percent higher with annual screening.
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Surprise! Guess Who's Viewing Your "Confidential" Medical Records?
Dr. Mercola argues medical records are far less private than patients assume: billing codes tell insurers the details of each visit, and insurers can review charts at any doctor's office. He warns that exposed records could cost people jobs, insurance claims or reputations.
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