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Senate Finance Committee passes healthcare bill
Get ready for a healthcare smack down later this month. With the Senate Finance Committee's 14-9 approval of its healthcare reform bill yesterday, the measure will move to a full floor debate,... Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: Debate over care for illegal immigrants gets hotter
Some members of Congress are suggesting that health reform be broadened to cover illegal immigrants, suggesting that all ought to receive care in a just society. Opponents, meanwhile, are violently... Read more...
HHS funds state efforts to reduce infections in ASCs
HHS has announced the start of funding for a national effort aimed at cutting down on infectious within stand-alone or same-day surgical centers (Sacs). The first program of this initiative, which is... Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: Massachusetts may cut back on 'healthcare for all'
At the beginning, Massachusetts policymakers were adamant that reforms would expand the healthcare system to provide coverage for all residents. Now, under financial pressure, the state budget has... Read more...
What happens to illegal immigrants under reform?
While care for illegal immigrants is a hot topic in some healthcare circles--especially among hospitals in key border states--it seems that current plans to remake the healthcare system may not... Read more...
Study: Higher spending for end-of-life care doesn't offer higher care quality
A new study published in Health Affairs underscores a principle that has been shown to apply to the entire U.S. healthcare system--that greater spending doesn't equal better care. The study, which... Read more...
Brigham and Women's begins personalized medicine project
Brigham and Women's Hospital has become the latest to immerse itself in the business of conducting personalized genetic research on treatments for cancer, brain and heart disease. Working with GE... Read more...
Wyden, Cooper hope to dump employer-based health insurance system
Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Rep. Jim Cooper (D-TN) don't agree on a lot--Wyden's a liberal Dem and Cooper a conservative Southerner--but they've come together to champion a cause that hasn't gotten... Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: Japanese patient rejected by 14 hospitals
As bad as things are within the U.S. healthcare system, a recent case in Japan illustrates that we're far from the only ones struggling to meet demand. In a recent case in Japan, an elderly man with... Read more...
AHIP conditionally endorses coverage for pre-existing conditions
In a highly significant move, America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) has endorsed guaranteed coverage for individuals with pre-existing conditions--as long as federal authorities require everyone to... Read more...
