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Special Edition: Medical Progress Today's Summer Reading List
Submitted on 7.28.2006
Medical Progress Today invites you to indulge in some summer reading that we think best explains the promises and pitfalls of modern health care. We have invited leading health care policy experts to suggest their favorite books and articles that address the modern health care system.
Tea Leaves
Submitted by Grace-Marie Turner on 7.27.2006
Free Market Approaches to Medicaid Urged at ALEC Conference
Submitted on 7.24.2006
States faced with a funding shortfall under Medicaid – and almost half the states are expected to declare some kind of shortfall this year – will only stem the tide of red ink by taking more control of the design of their own programs, a panel of health care experts told attendees at the American Legislative Exchange Council in San Francisco.
Medicare drug pricing
Submitted by Sally C. Pipes on 7.20.2006
The July 6 editorial "Higher drug prices: Medicare Part D fails seniors" argues that seniors would be better off with Medicare negotiating drug prices, just as the Department of Veterans Affairs does.
New Book Addresses What States Can Do To Reform Health Care
Submitted on 7.20.2006
SAN FRANCISCO –As 46 states begin their fiscal year this month, health care will prove to be one of the most costly expenditures. Medicaid spending alone is predicted to reach $320 billion this year. These dramatically rising health care costs should force state policymakers to lay the groundwork for meaningful and lasting reform according to health care expert John R. Graham, director of health care studies at the Pacific Research Institute and editor of the new book, What States Can Do to Reform Health Care: A Free Market Primer (available at www.pacificresearch.org or Amazon.com).
Drug companies' risk-taking saves lives
Submitted by Sally C. Pipes on 7.18.2006
In a July 11 article, Marcia Angell claims that drug companies are "exploiting the desperation of people with a life-threatening illness" ("Prices soar for cancer drugs," News). That's utter nonsense. Avastin would not be in existence today if Genentech Inc. had not invented it.
Letters Respond to USA Today Article on High Price of New Cancer Medications
Submitted on 7.17.2006
Two letters to the editor of USA Today on Tuesday responded to an article published on July 11 that examined how the high prices of new cancer medications -- as much as $10,000 monthly for one treatment -- have raised concerns among patients and health insurers. Summaries of the letters appear below.
Dreaming by the Bay: Why local politicians should stay out of the health insurance business
Submitted by Sally C. Pipes on 7.14.2006
The push for mandate driven universal health insurance has taken center stage in the policy arena. Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney has achieved near celebrity status with his plan to require individuals to purchase insurance or face fines. The American Medical Association voted at its June meeting to endorse a nationwide mandate on individuals to purchase health insurance. And my city may soon make national news if its mayor is successful in implementing a plan promising to provide universal coverage for San Francisco residents.
Some worry offering coverage would attract glut of uninsured people
Submitted by Laura Ernde on 7.14.2006
REDWOOD CITY — San Mateo County's push toward universal health care has a long, uphill battle ahead, experts said.
Health care plan faces challenges in San Mateo
Submitted by Laura Ernde on 7.4.2006
REDWOOD CITY — San Mateo County's push toward universal health care has a long, uphill battle ahead, experts said.
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