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March 2005
Advantages Offered by National Health Access
The Health Care Policy Roundtable, a project of the HR Policy Association, has identified six main advantages of the National Health Access program it announced ... (read more)
The Health Care Policy Roundtable, a project of the HR Policy Association, has identified six main advantages of the National Health Access program it announced ... (read more)
Advertising Prescription Drugs: Is It Wasted?
Anyone who watches television or reads popular magazines knows the amount of money spent on advertising for prescription drugs has increased dramatically ... (read more)
Anyone who watches television or reads popular magazines knows the amount of money spent on advertising for prescription drugs has increased dramatically ... (read more)
Big Rx Companies Offer Big Savings to the Uninsured
More than 30 million uninsured Americans became eligible in February to receive savings of between 25 and 40 percent on 275 brand-name and generic prescription ... (read more)
More than 30 million uninsured Americans became eligible in February to receive savings of between 25 and 40 percent on 275 brand-name and generic prescription ... (read more)
Commentary: No Child Left Unmedicated
Big Brother is on the march. A plan to subject all children to mental health screening is underway, and the pharmaceutical firms are gearing up for bigger ... (read more)
Big Brother is on the march. A plan to subject all children to mental health screening is underway, and the pharmaceutical firms are gearing up for bigger ... (read more)
Conference Calls for Changes in Medicare/Medicaid
The second annual World Health Care Congress convened in Washington, DC on January 30-February 1 with common messages echoing through the three days of ... (read more)
The second annual World Health Care Congress convened in Washington, DC on January 30-February 1 with common messages echoing through the three days of ... (read more)
Fixing America's Health Care System
Miracle Cure: How to Solve America's Health Care Crisis and Why Canada Isn't the Answer by Sally C. Pipes, with a foreword by Milton Friedman $14.95, ... (read more)
Miracle Cure: How to Solve America's Health Care Crisis and Why Canada Isn't the Answer by Sally C. Pipes, with a foreword by Milton Friedman $14.95, ... (read more)
Health Care Tax Credits Could Help Solve Nation's Uninsurance Problem
Support is growing for a proposed solution to the rising number of uninsured Americans: a federal tax credit for purchases of health insurance. If properly ... (read more)
Support is growing for a proposed solution to the rising number of uninsured Americans: a federal tax credit for purchases of health insurance. If properly ... (read more)
HSAs Next Big Opportunity for Banks
The Business Journal of Minneapolis reports, "Health savings accounts could be the next big business opportunity for banks in 2005." The article says, "Banks ... (read more)
The Business Journal of Minneapolis reports, "Health savings accounts could be the next big business opportunity for banks in 2005." The article says, "Banks ... (read more)
Maine Legislator Seeks Repeal of 1978 CON Law
The Maine state legislature will consider a bill introduced this session by State Rep. Tom Shields (R-Auburn) to repeal the state's Certificate of Need ... (read more)
The Maine state legislature will consider a bill introduced this session by State Rep. Tom Shields (R-Auburn) to repeal the state's Certificate of Need ... (read more)
Major U.S. Employers Unite to Sponsor Low-Cost Health Insurance
A new program designed to provide affordable health insurance coverage to the uninsured beginning in September 2005 was introduced in late January at the ... (read more)
A new program designed to provide affordable health insurance coverage to the uninsured beginning in September 2005 was introduced in late January at the ... (read more)
March 2005 Health Care News (PDF)
Page 1 of the March issue of Health Care News addresses new headline-grabbing claims that half of all bankruptcies in the U.S. are caused by medical problems. ... (read more)
Page 1 of the March issue of Health Care News addresses new headline-grabbing claims that half of all bankruptcies in the U.S. are caused by medical problems. ... (read more)
Medical Bankruptcy Claims Are Biased and Grossly Exaggerated
A new article in Health Affairs by David Himmelstein, Elizabeth Warren, Deborah Thorne, and Steffie Woolhandler is summarized in the media as revealing ... (read more)
A new article in Health Affairs by David Himmelstein, Elizabeth Warren, Deborah Thorne, and Steffie Woolhandler is summarized in the media as revealing ... (read more)
Patients Want More Control Over Their Health Care
The rapid advance of medical science over the past century means patients now have more therapies available to them than ever before. Historically, patients ... (read more)
The rapid advance of medical science over the past century means patients now have more therapies available to them than ever before. Historically, patients ... (read more)
Plodding along a Cul-De-Sac
If there is one thing most tragic about the ideas promoted by the advocates of national health care, it is that they keep going around in circles, always ... (read more)
If there is one thing most tragic about the ideas promoted by the advocates of national health care, it is that they keep going around in circles, always ... (read more)
Prescription Drug Pricing Attacked, Defended
At a January meeting of the National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG) in Chicago, critics of the prescription drug industry unleashed a barrage of ... (read more)
At a January meeting of the National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG) in Chicago, critics of the prescription drug industry unleashed a barrage of ... (read more)
What Will the Federal Prescription Drug Program Cost?
"There has been no significant change in the cost of the prescription drug benefit." Mark McClellan, director Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services News ... (read more)
"There has been no significant change in the cost of the prescription drug benefit." Mark McClellan, director Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services News ... (read more)