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Pre-Existing Conditions: How the New Proposed Healthcare Plan Could Deny You Coverage
Congressional Republicans are dead-set on repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act, seemingly without regard for making improvements to the system. The President’s promise was more people covered with better care at less cost. That is not what the new GOP proposal would provide. The main criteria for GOP proposals seems to be to make plans cheaper by eliminating access to care for millions of Americans. The latest iteration of the Republican healthcare proposal is to remove protections for “pre-existing conditions” from health insurance policies. This is the most disastrous of the Republican proposals to dat...
Source: Cliffside Malibu - May 1, 2017 Category: Addiction Authors: Constance Scharff PhD Tags: Abuse Addiction Recovery Addiction to Pharmaceuticals Addiction Treatment and Program Resources Alcoholism Behavioral Addictions Current Events Drug Rehab Information Drug Treatment Mental Health addiction treatment center drug treat Source Type: blogs

Nature vs Nurture
  By, SAURABH JHA MD My wife chooses sides in the nature-versus-nurture war expeditiously. When our children are polite, she credits her nurture. When they’re rowdy, she blames my genes. But the nature-nurture war won’t be resolved anytime soon. The gene played a significant role in the great Indian epic, the Mahabharata. Karna, abandoned by his mother, Kunti, and raised by a charioteer, was taught warfare by Parashurama, a gifted teacher with a fiery temperament, who despised warriors and only taught Brahmins. One day, Parashurama was asleep with his head on Karna’s lap. Karna was bitten by a scorpion but d...
Source: The Health Care Blog - April 29, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs

Rethinking The United States ’ Military Health System
During Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom (2001 – 2014), the United States’ military health system completely transformed its approach to casualty care, achieving the highest rate of survival from battlefield wounds in the history of warfare. It is one of the most remarkable accomplishments in the history of US medicine. Ironically, the same health care system that worked miracles “down range” in Iraq and Afghanistan faces mounting criticism at home. How can this be? In part, it is because the military health system has two distinctive missions: support combat and humanitarian assistance missions ove...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - April 27, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Arthur Kellermann Tags: Costs and Spending Featured Organization and Delivery Population Health Quality American College of Surgeons Department of Veterans Affairs Jonathan Letterman military health care National Defense Authorization Act TRICARE Source Type: blogs

The MacArthur Amendment Language, Race In The Federal Exchange, And Risk Adjustment Coefficients
For a number of days negotiations have apparently been underway with respect to an amendment to the Republican American Health Care Act (AHCA) that has been proposed by Congressman Tom MacArthur (R.N.J.) A summary of this amendment became available on April 20, 2017 and was analyzed here. On the evening of April 25, the actual language of the amendment became available. As described in the summary, the amendment would repeal the enigmatic language included in a March 23, 2017 amendment to the AHCA that would have allowed states, beginning in 2018, to define the essential health benefits for purposes of determining premium ...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - April 26, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Timothy Jost Tags: Following the ACA Insurance and Coverage Source Type: blogs

Yes, Mr. President. Health Care is Complicated. And Also Hard.
By ASEEM SHUKLA, MD “Nobody knew that health care could be so complicated,” President Donald Trump told us a few weeks ago.  As the failure of the House Republican  bill shows: Healthcare is hard. The American Healthcare Act failed to clear the House of Representatives despite catering to longstanding conservative demands: rid the ‘individual mandate’ (designed to force able-bodied people to pay insurance so it’s cheaper for sick people), subsidies to individuals, and revamping Medicaid into block grants to states. Even with the claim it could be deficit-neutral, the act failed to win enough moderat...
Source: The Health Care Blog - April 14, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs

10 Things Every Alzheimer's Caregiver Needs to Know and Discuss with Their Doctor
TheAmerican Geriatrics Society has published a list of ten things doctors and their patients should consider, know and understand.I think it is important forevery caregiver of a person living with Alzheimer's, or a related dementia, todiscuss these 10 issues with the doctor. Doing this in advance might be one of the most important caregiverdecisions you can make.It might also be a good idea toshare this article in support groups, and bookmark (save) it so you can find it when you need it.What is Alzheimer's Disease?By Carole Larkinhttp://www.alzheimersreadingroom.comI think this is an important list of things that nee...
Source: Alzheimer's Reading Room, The - April 13, 2017 Category: Neurology Authors: rtdemarco at gmail.com Tags: alzheimer care care of dementia patients dementia help for caregivers elderly dementia care geriatrics health help alzheimer's help with dementia help with dementia care life news memory care facility Source Type: blogs

Medicaid Work Requirements: Who ’s At Risk?
While the American Health Care Act (AHCA) has collapsed, adding work requirements to Medicaid continues as a key theme in conservative health reform efforts. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Seema Verma sent a letter to state governors offering greater flexibility in approving Medicaid Section 1115 waivers, including those with work-related proposals. Four states, Indiana, Arizona, Kentucky, and Pennsylvania, have submitted waivers to CMS to add work requirements to Medicaid. In his rejection of a Medicaid expansion bill that was ...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - April 12, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Leighton Ku and Erin Brantley Tags: Following the ACA Insurance and Coverage Medicaid and CHIP American Health Care Act employment health status medicaid work requirement Section 1115 Waivers Seema Verma tom price work requirements Source Type: blogs

Value Frameworks For Rare Diseases: Should They Be Different?
The US health care system is increasingly focusing on value as a basis for reimbursement of pharmacotherapies and devices, and as a result the use of “value frameworks” for measuring and comparing treatment value has grown in recent years. However, the therapies assessed by most frameworks frequently apply to modest-to-large disease populations, rather than the smaller populations affected by rare diseases, where the factors driving value may differ. Rare diseases are different from diseases affecting larger populations in several fundamental ways. In the United States, a rare disease is defined as one that affects few...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - April 12, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Anupam Jena and Darius Lakdawalla Tags: Costs and Spending Drugs and Medical Innovation Quality Orphan Drug Act Precision Medicine rare disease treatment treatment value value frameworks Source Type: blogs

What Now?: A Four Step Plan For Bipartisan Health Reform
As I concluded in my Health Affairs Blog post last Monday, it should be clearer now than ever that new steps to improve our health care system must be pursued on a bipartisan basis. In the past week, several Members of Congress and the President himself have expressed interest in finding consensus solutions to the challenges we face. Democrats, meanwhile, have responded in kind. While it will not be easy, we ought to applaud these gestures and, as health care stakeholders, demonstrate our preparedness to support efforts to improve health care access and reduce costs. With that in mind, I have compiled here a range of sensi...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - April 4, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Billy Wynne Tags: Featured Following the ACA Insurance and Coverage Medicaid and CHIP Quality bipartisanship Congress house v. price MACRA section 1333 Source Type: blogs

Health Care: What Should a Populist Do Now?
Conclusion The most common response to the suggestion that private contracts could be useful in reforming the health-care system for the benefit of ordinary Americans is the observation that people—ordinary Americans in particular—cannot reasonably be expected to read, let alone understand and compare, the multiple contracts they would confront. This point, however, while valid, is beside the real one, which is to give adequately subsidized consumers meaningful choices with respect to the cost and content of their future health care and enough reliable help in making them that they can be reasonably content with their ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - April 1, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs

Did Medical Darwinism Doom the GOP Health Plan?
By MICHAEL L. MILLENSON “We are now contemplating, Heaven save the mark, a bill that would tax the well for the benefit of the ill.” Although the quote reads like it could be part of the Republican repeal-and-replace assault against the Affordable Care Act (ACA), it’s actually from a 1949 editorial in The New York State Journal of Medicine denouncing health insurance itself. Indeed, the attacks on the ACA seem to have revived a survival-of-the-fittest attitude most of us thought had vanished in America long ago. Yet, again and again, there it was in plain sight, as when House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) declared: “T...
Source: The Health Care Blog - March 29, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized AHCA Darwin Millenson Ryan Source Type: blogs

After the American Health Care Act
BY JOHN IRVINE We asked THCB’s editors and bloggers for their reactions to Friday’s news. Here are their reactions. DANIEL STONE, MD The late UCLA Professor Richard Brown, once commented that the Clinton healthcare initiative failed because the status quo was everyone’s second choice. Some of that logic applies to today’s failure to vote on the AHCA. Additionally, no one ever lost money betting against the rollback of an established entitlement program. The Republicans opponents of the ACA have not yet faced the fact that the reason coverage is so expensive is because the care is so expensive. You can’t ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - March 26, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized John Irvine Source Type: blogs

Repealed and Misplaced
By KIP SULLIVAN Like Joe, Michael and others, I find myself wondering what, if anything, Trump learned from the demise of the AHCA last Friday. But I’m also wondering what Democrats and other Republicans are thinking. The question I would like to ask all Republicans is: Is it clear to you now that merely saying no to any Democratic proposal to lower the uninsured rate is bad for your party? The question I would like to ask all Democrats who supported the Affordable Care Act is: Is it clear to you now that that the managed care nostrums in the ACA cannot lower costs, and that attempting to lower the uninsured rate wi...
Source: The Health Care Blog - March 26, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized AHCA Freedom Caucus Trump William Kristol Source Type: blogs