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Eliminating The Medicaid Expansion May Cause More Damage Than Congress Realizes
The American Health Care Act (AHCA) and the Senate’s ill-fated Better Care Reconciliation Act (BCRA) attempted to deliver on two promises: 1) protecting patients with preexisting conditions, and 2) eliminating the Medicaid expansion. Though repeal efforts seem to have stalled for the time being, future GOP attempts to replace the ACA will undoubtedly involve the delicate task of appeasing conservative party members while maintaining provisions of the ACA that remain immensely popular with voters. While others have already discussed the failings of the proposed legislation with respect to the Medicaid expansion and preexi...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - July 20, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Justin Puckett and Jalpa Doshi Tags: Featured Following the ACA Medicaid and CHIP HIV/AIDS medicaid expansion states Source Type: blogs
Unsustainable Costs of Library Resources
Sometimes I feel like medical librarians have been talking to brick walls. Either that, or we are talking to bobble heads who don’t really listen to us but nod their heads in agreement.
I get a weekly email summarizing the healthcare industry. It is broken into local and national information and it is often an interesting quick read. Today I read the article “US medical expenditures on the rise, except for primary and home health.” The largest expenditures were attributed to prescribed medications, specialty physicians, visits to the emergency department and inpatient hospitalizations. While that ...
Source: The Krafty Librarian - July 18, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: KraftyLibrarian Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
United States House of Representatives Passes PDUFA
On Wednesday, July 12, 2017, the United States House of Representatives passed a bill via voice vote to reauthorize the prescription drug, generic drug, medical device and biosimilar user fee programs through 2022.
The current user fee programs expire September 30th, though the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has said that if the reauthorization bill is not signed by President Donald Trump before August 1st, the FDA will be forced to send out layoff notices to about 5,000 employees.
“This legislation will save lives,” Representative Greg Walden said on the House floor, noting he thinks the Senate wil...
Source: Policy and Medicine - July 18, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: Thomas Sullivan - Policy & Medicine Writing Staff Source Type: blogs
PhRMA Report Shows More than 240 Immuno-Oncology Treatments in Development
In early June 2017, the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) – in partnership with the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) – released a report that found there are over 240 immuno-oncology medicines and vaccines currently in development.
Immuno-oncology treatments are found through research into the role of the body’s immune system in fighting cancer. New immuno-oncology treatment options are allowing the patient’s own immune system to fight cancer similar to the way it fights disease-causing viruses and bacteria. The treatments can help the patient’s own immune system...
Source: Policy and Medicine - July 14, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: Thomas Sullivan - Policy & Medicine Writing Staff Source Type: blogs
The Most Important Questions About the GOP ’ s Health Plan Go Beyond Insurance and Deficits
By ROSS KOPPEL and JASMINE MARTINEZ
Ending healthcare for those who need it will not make them or their problems disappear. On the contrary, the GOP plan will shatter American families and the economy. Nothing magical happens if we stop caring for the elderly, the ones who need vaccinations, the small infections that can be treated for $2 worth of antibiotics, the uncontrolled diabetics, and those with contagious diseases who clean our schools’ offices and homes. They don’t just get healthy.
As George Orwell said in Down and Out in Paris and London, “the more one pays for food, the more sweat and spittle one is obli...
Source: The Health Care Blog - July 13, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
NIAAA Prostitutes Its Scientific Integrity and Helps Alcohol Industry Promote Drinking
This study could completely backfire on the alcoholic beverage industry, and they’re going to have to live with it,” Dr. Koob said. “The money from the Foundation for the N.I.H. has no strings attached. Whoever donates to that fund has no leverage whatsoever — no contribution to the study, no input to the study, no say whatsoever.” "What a bunch of crap!The money hashuge strings attached: namely, the money is to be used for a trialto examine the potential benefits of drinking! In other words, the alcohol industry doesn ' t need any further leverage because they have already won. They have succeeded in gettin...
Source: The Rest of the Story: Tobacco News Analysis and Commentary - July 6, 2017 Category: Addiction Source Type: blogs
Progress in SENS Rejuvenation Research Over the Past 15 Years
Reforming and rebuilding an entire field of medical research and development isn't an easy task, and sadly nor is it something that can be achieved overnight. A comprehensive reformation of the aging research community is nonetheless the goal of the SENS initiative, the Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence - a way to build rejuvenation therapies that work by repairing forms of cell and tissue damage that cause aging. SENS came into being precisely because aging research was not heading in the right direction: researchers were not attempting to treat aging as a medical condition, influential figures were in fact ...
Source: Fight Aging! - June 30, 2017 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Activism, Advocacy and Education Source Type: blogs
Did “Medicus economicus” Kill Medicare Part B Reform?
By DAVID, MATTHEWS and MAUGHN
When doctors complain about proposed changes to health care reimbursement, do they speak for patients or their pocketbooks? As the recent debate over Medicare Part B shows, even with access to publicly available billing data, it’s hard to disentangle financial motivations from more altruistic ones.
Since 2005, Medicare Part B has paid for physician-administered drugs like infused chemotherapeutics by reimbursing 106% of the average selling price (ASP) – a formula commonly referred to as “ASP+6”. In order to reduce overall spending and the program’s apparent incentive for physicians...
Source: The Health Care Blog - June 28, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Medicus Econ Source Type: blogs
Amended Senate Bill Includes Waiting Period for Those Who Let Coverage Lapse
On June 26, 2017, the Republican Leadership released an amended version of the Senate Better Care Reconciliation Act. It is very similar to the version they released on June 22, but includes two changes.
First, it amends a couple of provisions of the stability and innovation funds section to allow both short and long-term funds to be used to purchase health insurance benefits. This was apparently done to align the program more closely with the CHIP program. The stability and innovation fund is being created through the CHIP program, reportedly so as to incorporate CHIP’s abortion funding restrictions.
Second, it ma...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - June 26, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Timothy Jost Tags: Featured Following the ACA Insurance and Coverage ACA repeal and replace coverage gap waiting period Source Type: blogs
Sounding The Alarms On Children ’s Health Coverage
We reported on this trend in a recent Health Affairs article, in which we found that in 2013, nearly one-third of children in low-income working families above the poverty line got their health coverage through Medicaid or CHIP, up 8 percent from just six years earlier.
Today, more than 40 percent of children and adolescents in this country are now covered by Medicaid and CHIP, second only to employer-sponsored insurance. As a result, children are disproportionately vulnerable to health care reforms that cut public programs. In making any changes, caution is needed, as is an awareness of the many factors leading to familie...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - June 26, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: David Rubin Tags: Following the ACA Medicaid and CHIP Public Health Quality ACA repeal and replace AHCA Source Type: blogs
Will Senate Republicans Get 50 Votes to Repeal the ACA?
By DAVID INTROCASO
THCB readers are well aware this coming week Senate Republicans plan to begin debate on passing their amended version of the House-passed American Health Care Act (AHCA), titled the Better Care Reconciliation Act. As of today, June 23rd, immediate reactions by Republican senators to the June 22nd released discussion draft have been limited largely because members immediately left town after the draft’s release. The Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO’s) score, that will again be influential, is expected this Monday or Tuesday. Senate debate on the legislation will likely begin next W...
Source: The Health Care Blog - June 24, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized AHCA CBO David Introcaso Repeal Replace Senate Republicans Source Type: blogs
Make It Count
This story is brought to you bySecrets of the Cancer-Slaying Super Man, my second memoir about having confidence when there ’s no reason to have any in the face of deadly illness.Secrets is for ages 10 and up. If you like this free blog story, then you ’ll loveSecrets which is only 800 cents more!***Walterrrrrrrrrrrsssssssss!!!!!!!!!! and I stood on the grassy hill in the University of Virginia football stadium for the final time together as students. Maybe we ’d stand again later as graduates, maybe we’d sit together in seats later like proper old men, or maybe neither. Who knew how often my former dormmate and I ...
Source: cancerslayerblog - June 24, 2017 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: life lessons sports Source Type: blogs
Examining How Senate Republicans Frame Their Health Care Bill
Discussion Draft of Senate Amendment to H.R. 1628
Help stabilize collapsing insurance markets that have left millions of Americans with no options.
Short-Term Stabilization Fund: To help balance premium costs and promote more choice in insurance markets throughout the country, this stabilization fund would help address coverage and access disruption – providing $15 billion per year in 2018 and 2019; $10 billion per year in 2020 and 2021.
Jason Chung writes: S. 106(h)(1) specifies that these amounts are intended to “fund arrangements with health insurance issuers to address coverage and access disruption…” Rand P...
Source: The Health Care Blog - June 22, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Jason Chung Senate Bill Source Type: blogs
The American Health Care Act Could Chip Away At The Medicare Savings Programs
The American Health Care Act (AHCA) is not just an alarming, slapdash effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act—it’s also a plan to radically weaken Medicaid, our nation’s health care safety net. Indeed, the US House-passed bill’s most dramatic savings—$834 billion according to Congressional Budget Office estimates—are achieved by slashing federal funding to Medicaid, which provides health coverage to nearly 75 million low-income Americans, and undoing the program’s basic guarantee.
Nevertheless, these draconian reforms have been among the lesser told stories of the AHCA’s anticipated impact. The...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - June 15, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Maura Calsyn and Stacy Sanders Tags: Costs and Spending Following the ACA Insurance and Coverage Medicaid and CHIP Medicare Payment Policy ACA repeal and replace American Health Care Act dual eligibles Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, June 5th 2017
Fight Aging! provides a weekly digest of news and commentary for thousands of subscribers interested in the latest longevity science: progress towards the medical control of aging in order to prevent age-related frailty, suffering, and disease, as well as improvements in the present understanding of what works and what doesn't work when it comes to extending healthy life. Expect to see summaries of recent advances in medical research, news from the scientific community, advocacy and fundraising initiatives to help speed work on the repair and reversal of aging, links to online resources, and much more.
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Source: Fight Aging! - June 4, 2017 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
