RealClearHealth Week of December 14, 2015 Archives

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Monday, December 14
States Hold Key Role in Big Insurer Mergers
Lisa Schencker Modern HC
Mental Health Bill Quietly Passes Senate
Caitlin Owens Morning Consult
Law Ignored, Patients at Risk
Charles Piller Stat
New Guidance On ACA State Innovation Waivers
Timothy Jost HA Blog
Rise in 'Watchful Waiting' after Positive PSA Tests
Marie McCullough PI
Shkreli Plans to Raise Price of Chagas Drug
Laura Bult N.Y. Daily News
Valeant Hires Crisis Management Firm
Lynch & Ingram Reuters
Poll: Kentuckians Favor Medicaid Expansion
Deborah Yetter L'ville C-J
Few Results from New Laws to Ease Doctor Shortages
David A. Lieb AP
Ben Carson's Ties to Mannatech Are Many
Maremont & Stewart WSJ
Disagreements about New Molecular Tests
Joseph Burns Managed Care
You Can Buy Insulin Without A Prescription
Sarah Jane Tribble NPR
The GOP's Obamacare Bluff
Juan Williams The Hill
The Health of Obamacare
Daniel P. Kessler Wall Street Journal
Senator Rubio Makes Life Tough for Small Insurers
New York Times


Tuesday, December 15
CDC Proposes New Guidelines for Opioid Use
Lenny Bernstein WP
Opioid Crisis Fueled by Family Doctors, Internists
Eric Boodman Stat
Higher Deductibles Yield Fewer Surgeries
Kris B. Mamula Pittsburgh P-G
Ohio's HealthSpan Backs Away from ACA Plans
Casey Ross Plain Dealer
Rising Penalties Could Boost Marketplace Signups
Alison Kodjak NPR
ACA Tax Delay Would Give Insurers a Windfall
Caitlin Owens MC
Hospitals Launch Specialty Pharmacies
Melanie Evans Modern Healthcare
Nonprofit Vows to Lower Generic Drug Costs
Robert Weisman BG
Drug Approvals Top 2014 High
Ben Hirschler Reuters
Cruz's Plan to Overhaul the Drug Approval Process
Julia Belluz Vox
What Patient Consent Really Looks Like
J. Leonard Lichtenfeld MedPage
FDA's Priority Review Vouchers Are Broken
Ed Silverman Pharmalot
The 'Cadillac Tax' Isn't About Revenue
Yevgeniy Feyman The Hill
Insurers Discriminate against Sick People
Sabrina Corlette CHIRblog
The Myth of Consumer-Driven Health Care
Michael Hiltzik L.A. Times


Wednesday, December 16
ACA Enrollment Deadline Extended Two Days
Amy Goldstein WP
In Conn., Slower Traffic on ACA Deadline
Arielle Levin Becker CT Mirror
Bigger '16 Exchange Premium, Deductible Jumps
Jayne O'Donnell USAT
Congressional Leaders Reach Spending Deal
Peterson & Rubin WSJ
Bill Would Give NIH Biggest Increase in 12 Years
Nather & Scott Stat
Spending Bill Has Ban on Risk Corridor Payouts
Peter Sullivan The Hill
ACA's Escape Hatch May Be Too Narrow for States
Virgil Dickson MH
Tomorrow's Seniors to Be More Costly Than Today's
Lisa Gillespie KHN
Report Finds Less Misuse of Painkillers by Teens
Alan Schwarz NYT
Hepatitis Drug Among the Most Costly for Medicaid
Alison Kodjak NPR
1 In 6 Mass. Residents Put Off Health Care to Avoid Costs
WBUR
Genetic Testing May Be Coming to Your Office
Rachel Silverman WSJ
The Right Not to Know
Benjamin E. Berkman The Health Care Blog
America Must Confront Hearing Loss
Dave Fabry USA Today
Don't Blame Mental Illness for Gun Violence
New York Times


Thursday, December 17
Shkreli Arrested on Securities Fraud Charges
Smythe & Geiger B'berg
Deal Slows Changes to Breast Cancer Guidelines
Sarah Ferris The Hill
Who Can Delay Breast Cancer Treatment?
Alexandra Sifferlin Time
9/11 Health Legislation Included in Spending Bill
Brian Tumulty USAT
Budget for Alzheimer's Research May Get 50% Boost
T. Bahrampour WP
How Does the Budget Agreement Affect the ACA?
Timothy Jost HA Blog
Don't Expect Relief from Cadillac Tax Delay
Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar AP
How the White House Lost on the Cadillac Tax
Nancy Cook Politico
How ACA Debate Evolved Beyond Repeal or Not
Caitlin Owens MC
Providers Press for Delay, Flexibility in EHR Rule
Joseph Conn MH
Rebates on Generics Would Save Medicaid $1.4B
Silverman Pharmalot
Advocates Allege Discrimination in Medi-Cal
Anna Gorman KHN
83% Would Donate Leftover Blood Samples
Meghana Keshavan MCN
Treatment Center Knows One Size Doesn't Fit All
A. Steiner MinnPost
Delaying, Weakening Cadillac Tax Is Wrong Move
B. Blase Apothecary


Friday, December 18
Sasse Lifts Hold on Confirming HHS Nominees
Mary Ellen McIntire MC
CMS to Iowa: Delay Medicaid Privatization for 60 Days
Tony Leys DMR
CMS Approves Waiver for Healthy Michigan
Gray & Spangler Free Press
Lax Auditing of Medicare Advantage Plans
Fred Schulte NPR
Ryan Promises January Vote to Roll Back ACA
Sarah Ferris The Hill
Generic Drug Prices Outpacing Inflation
Lisa Schencker Mod. Healthcare
Shkreli Nightmare Not Over for Drug Companies
Nather & Robbins Stat
Will Hospitals Benefit from 21st Century Cures Act?
Tinker Ready HLM
Fight Against Superbugs Gets Funding Boost
Lena Sun Washington Post
Los Alamos Turns to War on Cancer
Lauren Dunn NBC News
OHSU's $1B Focus: Better Early Cancer Detection
L. Terry Oregonian
Information Blocking Must Be Stopped
David Nash MedPageToday
Martin Shkreli Is an American Hero
Kit Williamson Advocate
How Theranos Misled Me
Roger Parloff Fortune
Republicans in Congress Are Surrendering to Obama
Ted Cruz Politico
Saturday, December 19
Taliban Join Global Effort to Kill Off Polio
Eltaf Najafizada Bloomberg
Curing Hepatitis C in Egypt
Donald G. McNeil Jr. New York Times
'Third Wave' of Asbestos Disease Upends Lives
Morris & Jameel CPI
Insurers Mine Data to Nudge You to Better Health
Rebecca Robbins Stat
How America Got So Screwed Up About Food
Julia Belluz Vox
Last-Ditch Antibiotic Resistance Grows
Maryn McKenna Nat. Geo.
America's Anti-Anti-Science Crusader
Breanna Draxler Popular Science
Does Health IT Need 'Choosing Wisely'?
Colin Hung Hospital EMR & EHR
Heredity Is Nobody's Fault. Until Now.
Faye Flam Bloomberg View
Is There Treatment for Down Syndrome?
Bonnie Rochman Tech. Review
Dying For Dollars: For-Profit Health Care in Ky. Jails
Dunlop KYCIR
More Mustached Men than Women in Med. Leadership
R. Feltman WP
How Genetic Heritage Explains Obesity
Suzanne Koven Boston Globe
New Approach to Treating Childhood Obesity
John Lumpkin AAMC
The Problem With Focusing on Childhood Obesity
Thomas A. Farley NYT
Monday, December 21
Regulators Tamp Down on Mergers of Hospitals
Reed Abelson NYT
How Olympus Kept Hospitals in the Dark
Terhune & Petersen LAT
Employers Battle Drug Costs
Peter Loftus Wall Street Journal
How Democrats Prevailed over Obama on Cadillac Tax
Sarah Ferris Hill
Could the Cadillac Tax Be the New Doc Fix?
Caitlin Owens Morn. Consult
Surge in Enrollment Lifts Obamacare Marketplaces
Noam N. Levey LAT
In Budget Deal, a New Path for ACA Foes
Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar AP
Why New Medical Schools Have Been Popping Up
Julie Rovner KHN
Coloradans Will Put Single-Payer to a Vote Next Fall
John Daley NPR
U.S. Finds Violations at Indian Generic Plant
Zeba Siddiqui Reuters
Concurrent Surgeries Get New Scrutiny
Abelson et al. Boston Globe
Health Care's Price Conundrum
Atul Gawande New Yorker
Reform Ideas You Haven't Heard Before
James Capretta RealClearPolicy
No Justification for High Drug Prices
New York Times
Free Speech in the Examining Room
Noah Feldman Bloomberg View


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