RealClearHealth Week of October 19, 2015 Archives

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Monday, October 19
Clinton Takes in Big Money from Drug Industry
David Nather Stat
Oregon Co-op Insurer to Shutter
Elizabeth Hayes Portland Biz Journal
More Health Co-ops Face Collapse
Stephanie Armour Wall Street Journal
Medicare Spending for Hep C Cures Surges
Charles Ornstein ProPublica
Falling Gas Prices Mean Rising Medicare Costs
Joseph Antos AEI
No Ready-Made Rx for Rising Drug Costs
Julie Appleby KHN
Hopes Dim for Deal on Medicare Premiums
Sarah Ferris The Hill
Momentum for Mental-Health Reform in Congress
Lena H. Sun WP
More Health Systems Launch Venture Funds
Sherree Geyer HFN
Prematurely Calling the End of Small Practices
John Lynn EMR & EHR
VA Official Overseeing Claims Backlog Resigns
Dave Phillips NYT
Will Calif. End-of-Life Law Push Lethal Drugs?
Soumya Karlamangla LAT
Theranos Trouble: First Person Account
Jean-Louis Gassée Monday Note
Ask Investors Whether Obamacare Is Working
Matthew Winkler BV
Disclosing Identity Of Generic Drugmakers
Conti & Berndt Health Affairs


Tuesday, October 20
Rubio Criticizes Drugmaker 'Profiteering'
Armstrong & Kapur Bloomberg
Valeant, Under Pressure, Plans Changes
Rockoff & Farrell WS Journal
Drug Makers Sidestep Barriers on Pricing
Andrew Pollack NYT
Judge Denies Appeal on Standing in House v. Burwell
Peter Sullivan Hill
Colo. Co-op Sues to Stay Open; Backs Down
Alicia Wallace Denver Post
Suing A Nursing Home Could Get Easier
Ina Jaffe NPR Shots
'UndocuCare' Seeks to Help N.Y. Immigrants
Erica Pearson NYDN
Hospital-Owned Doctor Practices Linked to Higher Prices
Reuters
Top EHR Vendors Agree to Interoperability Metrics
Joseph Conn MH
AHA Furious over Excluding Orphan Drugs from 340B
S. Morse HFN
Getting Bundled Payments Right
Haas et al. Harvard Business Review
Examining Plummeting Obamacare Enrollment
Brian Blase Apothecary
Collyer Ruling Could Destabilize Insurance Markets
Timothy Jost HA
Partial vs. Full Repeal of ACA via Reconciliation
Cannon & Winfree Hill
A New Attack on Health Care Reform
New York Times


Wednesday, October 21
Clinton Slams Branstad's Medicaid Privatization Plan
Tony Leys DMR
Dartmouth-Hitchcock to Exit Pioneer ACO Program
Susan Morse HFN
Mammogram Guidelines Could Raise Confusion
Marie McCullough PI
Radiologist Still Recommends Mammograms at Age 40
Meeri Kim WP
Obamacare Repeal Effort Hits Snag
Sarah Ferris The Hill
CMS Provides FAQ About Small-Group Definition
Timothy Jost HA
Illinois Co-op To Limit 2016 Enrollments
Kristen Schorsch CCB
Amid Lawsuit, FDA Yanks Pacira Letter
Ed Silverman Pharmalot
EHR Interoperability Report Seems Clear as Mud
Neil Versel MedCity
Meaningful Use Rules Give CIOs Wiggle Room
Scott Mace HLM
Health Risk Assessments May Benefit Elderly
Kathryn Doyle Reuters
Dems Urge Medicare to Pay for End-of-Life Talks
Peter Sullivan The Hill
Here's What The New House Speaker Will Do
Avik Roy Apothecary
Why Repeal Cadillac Tax When You Can Delay It?
Nicholas Bagley IE
2 Experts Make the Case against the Cadillac Tax
Sarah Kliff Vox


Thursday, October 22
House GOP Drops Part of Obamacare Repeal
Sarah Ferris The Hill
Obama Announces Steps to Combat Opiate Abuse
Mufson & Zezima WP
Valeant Denies Report that Bludgeoned Stock
Ed Silverman Pharmalot
Drug Makers Respond on Specialty Pharmacies
Chelsey Dulaney WSJ
Medicare Increases Await Serious Talks in Congress
Jon Reid MC
NIH Funding Caught in Budget Battle
Caitlin Owens National Journal
Novartis Tests Pricing Model w/ Heart Failure Rx
Ben Hirschler Reuters
Theranos Defends Its Accuracy
Katie Benner New York Times
New Screening Won't Assure Fewer Mammograms
Aaron Carroll Upshot
Biden Calls for 'Moonshot' to Cure Cancer
Dylan Scott Stat
Daraprim Price Hike and a Role for Antitrust
Carrier & Kesselheim HA
Hospital Routines May Make Patients Sicker
Madeline Kennedy Reuters
Looking Under the Valeant Pharmaceuticals Rock
Derek Lowe Science
Clinton Doesn't Like Insurer Mergers. So What?
Brooke Sutherland BV
ONC Interoperability Plan: Late & $19B Short
Tom Giannulli THCB


Friday, October 23
Dr. Ben Carson's Rx: Abolish Medicare
Cheney & Millman Politico
New Questions About Valeant & Pharmacies
Charles Ornstein ProPublica
AbbVie Shares Plunge after FDA Warning
John Russell Chicago Tribune
Shkreli May Get Competition for Daraprim
Ed Silverman Pharmalot
Generic Drugs Can Be Costly for Small Pharmacies
Alison Kodjak NPR
3 GOP Senators Threaten to Vote Against ACA Repeal
Peter Sullivan Hill
Cruz: Senate Umpire Works for Us
Niels Lesniewski Roll Call
Medical School Applications Set New Record
Bruce Japsen Forbes
MedPAC: Convert Rural Hospitals to Outpatient ERs
Susan Morse HFN
Oregon Sues GNC over Spiked Supplements
Maggie Fox NBC News
Worse Prostate Cancer Care for Black Men
Rachel Zimmerman WBUR
Aetna's Wellness Program Shows Quick Returns
Joanne Finnegan FHP
Being a Doctor is a Health Hazard
Jacqueline Fellows HealthLeaders Media
The EHR and the Disruption of Medicine
Lisa Rosenbaum NEJM
Do We Buy the Theranos Rebuttal?
Meghana Keshavan MedCityNews
Saturday, October 24
Epic Fail: Digitizing America's Medical Records
Patrick Caldwell MoJo
The Woman Who Can Smell Parkinson's Disease
Elizabeth Quigley BBC
Can I Avoid the 50% Medicare Premium Hike?
Philip Moeller Time
Teaching Consumers How to Use Insurance
Kavita Patel et al. Health Aff.
What Happened When I Shopped for Care
Sarah Kliff Vox
Is 'Instagram for Docs' the Future of Medicine?
D. Hernandez Fusion
Brain Surgery on Live TV: Helpful or Exploitive?
David Armstrong Stat
How to Decide If Cancer Drug Is Worth the Cost
Ed Silverman Pharmalot
When Students Are Patients, Privacy Suffers
Charles Ornstein ProPublica
Popular E-Cigarettes Contain Harmful Chemicals
Raquel Rutledge MJS
Will Future Work Be Good for Our Health?
Mark Cullen Pacific Standard
Peer-Review Fraud
Charlotte J. Haug New England Journal of Medicine
Too Many Pills, Too Little Oversight
Don Sapatkin Philadelphia Inquirer
Disruptive Idiots From Silicon Valley
Saurabh Jha The Health Care Blog
Actress's Blog Resurrects Breast Cancer Myth
Melissa Jeltsen HuffPo
Monday, October 26
Thousands Not Filing Tax Returns May Lose Subsidies
Robert Pear NYT
Ben Carson Says He Won't End Medicare
Lydia Wheeler The Hill
Federal Marketplace Open for Window Shopping
Jayne O'Donnell USAT
'Doc Fix' Making Things Complicated w/ MIPS
Neil Versel MedCityNews
Md. Hospital Payment System Boosts Public Health
Audie Cornish NPR
Report Questions How States Spent ACA Funds
Hollie Mckay Fox News
Universal Health Care Headed to Colo. Ballot
Kristen Wyatt AP
Providers Should Publish Physician Ratings
Ashish Jha Health Care Blog
Walgreens Delays Theranos Testing Centers
Carreyrou & Weaver WSJ
Study Questions Computer-Aided Mammography
Ben Sutherly ColDisp
Mitt Romney Finally Takes Credit For Obamacare
Jessica Taylor NPR
Free Mitt Romney!
Paul Krugman New York Times
The Decline of Obamacare
Wall Street Journal
Obama's Drug Proposals Worry Me
Patrick J. Kennedy Washington Post
Uniting Behind the Divisive 'Cadillac' Tax
Mankiw & Summers NYT


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