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Health Care Overhaul Extend the Life of Medicare by 12 years

admin — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 21:52:17 +0000

Health Care Overhaul Extend the Life of Medicare by 12 years
WASHINGTON (AP) – The annual checkup of the government’s big benefit programs for the elderly showed that the administration’s sweeping health care overhaul will extend the life of the Medicare hospital insurance fund by 12 years. But officials are cautioning that the dramatic gain will depend on achieving significant savings in health care in coming years. The annual trustees report for …

Priority Health Honors Providers for Quality Care

admin — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 00:52:06 +0000

Priority Health Honors Providers for Quality Care
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.—-Priority Health, one of the nation’s top health plans, is pleased to recognize 138 primary care practices across the state of Michigan with the Priority Health Quality Awards.

Missouri vote puts health care back in crosshairs

admin — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 09:51:54 +0000

Missouri vote puts health care back in crosshairs
Missouri voters’ overwhelming opposition to requiring nearly all Americans to buy health insurance puts one of the least popular parts of President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul law back in the

Judge Allows Challenge to Health Care Overhaul to Move Forward

admin — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 12:51:55 +0000

Judge Allows Challenge to Health Care Overhaul to Move Forward
A federal judge in Virginia has declined to dismiss a challenge to the president’s health care overhaul, writing that each side should have an opportunity to fully make its case. “While this case raises a host of complex constitutional issues, all seem to distill to the single question of whether or not Congress has the power to regulate — and tax — a citizen’s decision not to participate in …

CO-REC Ready To Assist Colorado Health Care Providers In Implementing Electronic Health Record Systems And Achieving …

admin — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 18:51:57 +0000

CO-REC Ready To Assist Colorado Health Care Providers In Implementing Electronic Health Record Systems And Achieving …
Recognizing that earlier in July, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT released rules outlining which health care providers will get government funding to support their implementation of electronic health record systems (EHR), leaders at the Colorado Regional Health Information Organization say it’s time for providers who don’t …

More Funding Needed For State Health Care Program

admin — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 21:53:14 +0000

More Funding Needed For State Health Care Program
A state program that provides low-cost health insurance for nearly 46,000 Pennsylvanians is running out of funding and those who rely on the program may not have any insurance until the new federal health care reform begins in 2014.

National health care reform topic of forum

admin — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 15:53:09 +0000

National health care reform topic of forum
Herb K. Schultz, a regional director for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, will speak on national health care reform at 10 a.m. Thursday at UCR Palm Desert, 75-080 Frank Sinatra Drive.

Health Care Provider Crippled by Financial Shortfall

admin — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 09:54:54 +0000

Health Care Provider Crippled by Financial Shortfall
The Charlottesville Health Access organization gives free health care to the homeless. However, the director of the group says they’ll have to shut down if they don’t raise enough money by the end of August.

Veterans’ health care concerns at issue in Bedford hearing

admin — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 18:52:22 +0000

Veterans’ health care concerns at issue in Bedford hearing
BEDFORD — Lynn Tucker calmly testified before members of Congress on Monday that her son, Benjamin, is a disabled Marine struggling to receive the health care he deserves from the federal government.

Health care help just out of reach

admin — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 03:56:24 +0000

Health care help just out of reach
Editor’s note: This is one in an occasional series by columnist Issac J. Bailey examining health care and insurance issues and how they affect the lives of patients and their families.