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HEALTH HEADLINES AND OTHER THINGS. What legal or public policy issues do the following headlines and other things suggest?. Consumers Across the Nation Are Facing Sharp Increases in Health Care Costs in 2001 December 10, 2000
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What legal or public policy issues do the following headlines and other things suggest?
Consumers Across the Nation Are Facing Sharp Increases in Health Care Costs in 2001 December 10, 2000 Consumers across the country will soon face double-digit increases for health insurance premiums, medical care and drugs, reflecting the biggest surge in medical inflation since early 1990's. …CALPERS, the nation’s second-largest health plan, will meet this week to deal with cost increases as high as 24% for 230,000 members of the system’s financially troubled “preferred provider organizations,” networks of preselected doctors and hospitals. The staff proposals include doubling the annual deductible employees pay, to $1,000 a family, and adding a $50 payment for emergency room visits.
Companies Plan to Pass Along Rising Health-Care Expenses December 12, 2000 The hot economy has kept most employers from passing on rapidly rising health insurance costs to employees, but next year workers probably will get hit with higher deductibles, co-payments and premiums, according to a study being released today by a benefits consulting firm.
More Americans Have Insurance, Census ReportsSeptember 29, 2000 In another demonstration of the robust economy, the Census Bureau reported Thursday that the percentage of Americans without health insurance declined last year, the first drop since the government began keeping the statistic 13 years ago. Although the percentage of uninsured Californians also dropped, the state still had one of the highest rates in the country--20.3%, down from 22.1% in 1998.
Estimate of Ousters by H.M.O.'s Is Raised More than 900,000 elderly and disabled people will soon be dropped by health maintenance organizations pulling out of the Medicare program, the Clinton administration said today. The number, which is substantially greater than estimates last month by ...
Rising Medicare Costs Will Burden the Poorest, Study Says January 3, 2001 Medicare recipients will pay substantially more for health care if no changes are made to the system, and those who are poorer, sicker and older will disproportionally absorb the rising costs, according to a study released Tuesday.
Political Battle Lines Are Clearly Drawn in Fight Over Medicare Drug CoverageRepublicans warn of the dangers of a big ''one size fits all'' prescription drug program for the elderly, run by the heavy hand of government bureaucrats. Democrats rail against the prospect of elderly Americans at the mercy of profit-hungry pharmaceutical industry
Managed Care Squeezes Research Funds and Charity Health Aid, Studies Find In the wake of the managed care revolution, health policy analysts have long suspected that financial pressures would threaten care for the poor and prevent academic health centers from financing their own biomedical research. Now, two new studies prove...
Clinton Begins Last Push for Patients' Bill of Rights September 15, 2000 President Clinton declared Thursday that passage of the patients' bill of rights is his priority for the final days of the 106th Congress and initiated an intense lobbying drive to get the handful of votes still needed to save the bill.
Bush Tells of Goals in Patients' Rights Bill February 8, 2001 President Bush offered a list Wednesday of what he could support in a patients' "bill of rights" while declaring that he could not back a bipartisan bill introduced in Congress earlier this week.
Economic Scene; Battle over right to sue H.M.O.'s isn't going away. WITH Congressional Democrats and Republicans jockeying fiercely for the high political ground on patients' rights, there is a good chance that efforts to clamp down on managed medical care abuses will come to naught this year. But it's a sure bet that ...
OREGON REPORTING 15 DEATHS IN 1998 UNDER SUICIDE LAW Oregon officials reported today that in the first year of the only legally sanctioned assisted-suicide program in the world, 15 terminally ill people in the state ended their lives with lethal medication. The average age of the eight men and seven w ...
Pennsylvania Set to Break Taboo On Reward for Organ Donations With demand for human organs far outstripping supply and more than 64,000 Americans waiting to receive new hearts, lungs, livers, pancreases and kidneys, Pennsylvania is taking steps to become the first state to break a long-held taboo against providing compensation ...
Calling Infertility a Disease, Couples Battle With Insurers Roberta Kraft is $38,700 in debt. She owes money on her Visa card. She owes money on her American Express card. She owes money to her parents and to her best friend from college. She and her husband have not bought new clothes in two years and live i ... G.O.P. Senate Leaders Back Bill on Insuring Infertility Treatments The Republican leaders of the State Senate said today that they intended to pass a bill on Tuesday that for the first time would require health insurance companies to pay for some infertility treatments, edging the Legislature closer to action on the ...
The Sperminator In July 1995, a young man died suddenly in a California hospital. Within hours, his wife's family was on the phone to Cappy Rothman, a urologist at Century City Hospital in Los Angeles. They asked him to meet her at the morgue to collect sperm from her ...
Motherhood for All, at a Price To the Editor: Re your March 4 Op-Ed forum, ''Fertility for Sale'': Like commercial manufacturing, modern procreation is becoming increasingly compartmentalized and abstracted. We isolate the units (gametes frozen in egg and sperm ''banks''), and we ...
Hints of Success in Fetal Cell Transplants In the first Government-financed study using tissue from aborted fetuses to treat Parkinson's disease, a team of researchers announced today that they had relieved the symptoms of some patients, a discovery that experts say suggests that scientists a ...
Boom in Gene Testing Raises Questions on Sharing Results As genetic testing becomes increasingly common, those who choose to learn their genetic risks, and the health professionals who treat them, are facing difficult decisions about how -- and whether -- to share the results with family members and others
Medical Research Official Cites Ethics Woes The chief federal official overseeing the safety and ethics of experiments with human subjects said today that conflicts of interest in medical research where so troublesome that “the system may have gotten entirely out of control” and might have to be reorganized. The remarks by the official, Dr. Greg Koski, director-designate of the Office for Human Research Protections, concluded a two-day government-sponsored conference here on conflicts of interest in medical research. Speakers at the conference presented evidence that questionable financial ties between industry and researchers who test drugs or medical devices were more widespread than previously believed.
CLINTON TO UNVEIL RULES TO PROTECT MEDICAL PRIVACY President Clinton will soon announce sweeping new Federal rules to protect the privacy of billions of medical records and will assail Congress for failing to enact any safeguards, Administration officials said today. The proposed regulations would be ...,
Bush Lets Medical Privacy Rules Take Effect, With Caveats April 13, 2001 In a rare defeat for business, the Bush administration said Thursday it would let a set of controversial medical privacy regulations take effect immediately but would later seek to modify the regulations to address health care industry concerns.
Baby in a Box A month shy of giving birth to her first child, Laura Pouzer, a college chemistry teacher, reclines on a padded table at Johns Hopkins University, the luxuriousness of her belly and her wit on equal display as she takes the infamous Stroop stress test ... Motherhood for All, at a Price To the Editor: Re your March 4 Op-Ed forum, ''Fertility for Sale'': Like commercial manufacturing, modern procreation is becoming increasingly compartmentalized and abstracted. We isolate the units (gametes frozen in egg and sperm ''banks''), and we ... . Wanted: Egg donor. $80,000
Bush decided to allow some federal funding for embryonic stem-cell research. 60 but no more Are there really 60?
MORE AMERICANS WERE UNINSURED IN 1998, U.S. SAYSThe number of Americans without health insurance rose last year by 833,000, to 44.3 million, despite a strong economy and a new law intended to provide coverage for children, the Census Bureau reported today. The ranks of the uninsured have grown by ...
Revisiting Patients' RightsPost, Aug 7, 2001) The House of Representatives last week passed a patients' rights bill, opening the door for a potential compromise with the Senate, which passed its version of the legislation in June. The Miami Herald argues the House bill is "unbalanced" and calls on Congress to reach an agreement on legislation closer to the that passed by the Senate. "Mr. Bush is right to be concerned about the negative impact of unnecessary or frivolous lawsuits against the managed-care system…[T]here is a need to balance service accountability and litigation costs."
Iowa Turf War Over Transplants Mirrors Feuds Across the Nation Like a baseball team that recruits a winning pitcher, administrators at Iowa Methodist Medical Center gave themselves a hearty pat on the back when Dr. Maureen Martin signed on to their staff.
THE DOCTOR'S WORLD; Getting To the Core Of Mistakes In Medicine Doctors have amputated the wrong leg, killed patients with overdoses of medications and committed other serious errors for centuries. So why only now is a United States president calling for the first national plan to reduce such errors? The reasons ... Policing Health Care It has been known for some time that medical errors are a major cause of death and suffering in the United States. Now the Institute of Medicine, the medical arm of the National Academy of Sciences, has called for a new federal office to protect patients
Employees Facing Steep Increases in Health Costs Many working Americans will pay 8 to 20 percent more for health insurance premiums next year, the sharpest price increases since the early 1990's. The rises in premiums follow several years of failed efforts by health maintenance organizations and
The Placebo Prescription In the summer of 1994, a surgeon named J. Bruce Moseley found himself engaged in an elaborate form of make-believe. Moseley had 10 patients scheduled for an operation intended to relieve the arthritis pain in their knees. The patients were men -- mos ...
The Nation; The Uninsured Find Fewer Doctors in the House DESPITE a decade of steadily rising prosperity, a million more Americans a year are losing the protective umbrella of health insurance. As a result, more than 41 million people, or 15 percent of the population, don't have coverage. They lack insured . Managed Care Squeezes Research Funds and Charity Health Aid, Studies Find In the wake of the managed care revolution, health policy analysts have long suspected that financial pressures would threaten care for the poor and prevent academic health centers from financing their own biomedical research. Now, two new studies pr .
