RealClearHealth Week of January 25, 2016 Archives

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Monday, January 25
How Hillarycare Did & Didn't Lead to Obamacare
Sahil Kapur Bloomberg
'Medicare for All' May Not Help Working Seniors
Heidi Przybyla USAT
President Pushes ACA As Enrollment Deadline Nears
Mark Hensch Hill
Q&A: Marilyn Tavenner on AHIP's Way Forward
Modern Healthcare
Employee Wellness Programs Increasingly Use Sticks
Reed Abelson NYT
Some Employer Plans Exclude Outpatient Surgeries
Jay Hancock KHN
Fight to Lower Prices Forces Some To Switch Rx
Alison Kodjak NPR
Are Bigger Insurers Really Better?
Paul von Ebers Health Affairs Blog
U.S. Health Care Less 'Private' Than You Might Think
R. Knox WBUR
What Can Be Done to Increase Organ Transplants
Tinker Ready HLM
Deficiencies Found at Theranos Lab
Carreyrou Weaver & Siconolfi WSJ
Britain, Gates Pledge Billions to Fight Malaria
William James Reuters
Should You Let Your Kids Play Football?
Barry Sanders USA Today
Drug Deaths Reach White America
New York Times
Health Care's Continental Divide
McArdle & Bershidsky Bloomberg View


Tuesday, January 26
Donald Trump Backs Medicare Negotiating Drug Prices
Politico
CBO Lowers Projected Growth in Obamacare Enrollment
Roll Call
Senator Holds Up FDA Nominee over Opioid Crisis
Brady Dennis WP
Grand Jury Indicts Abortion Foes Behind Videos
Alex Ura Texas Tribune
SCOTUS Won't Let North Dakota Enforce Tough Abortion Law
AP
Rural Coloradans Struggle to Pay for Insurance
David Olinger Den. Post
Is Medicaid Expansion Near a Tipping Point?
Christine Vestal Stateline
States Have Trouble Coordinating Care for Duals
Virgil Dickson MH
More People Under 50 Getting Colon Cancer
Steven Reinberg HealthDay
Pressure on Medicare to Pay for Genetic Sequencing
Dylan Scott Stat
Why Kidney Transplants Are Harder to Get
Kristen Schorsch CCB
Where Are the Geriatricians?
Katie Hafner New York Times
Journal Editors Say It's Time To Share Data
Harlan Krumholz NPR
When Foreigners Bring Disease across the Border
Tammy Bruce WT
Why Mental Health Care Is Real Campaign Issue
Jonathan Cohn HuffPo


Wednesday, January 27
ACA Fines Press Millennials As Deadline Nears
R. Alonso-Zaldivar AP
Panel Recommends Mental Illness Screenings
Ariana Eunjung Cha WP
NYC Practice: Screening for Depression for 3 Years
O'Donnell USAT
Okla. Treats Mental Health System w/o Care
Jaclyn Cosgrove Oklahoman
CMS Seeks Cut in Readmissions for Minorities, Poor
Virgil Dickson MH
Rubio: Some 'Cheating' Disability System
Mackenzie Ryan D.M. Register
Trump Dips Toe into Tricky Health Care Proposals
Caitlin Owens MC
Trump Would Have Problems on Medicare Rx Prices
David Nather Stat
Trump & Liberals Agree on Negotiating Drug Prices
Sarah Kliff Vox
How to Manage a High-Deductible Plan
Arielle Levin Becker CT Mirror
Big Zika Virus Outbreak Unlikely in U.S., Officials Say
Rob Stein NPR
Patient Empowerment Can Lower Costs
Merrill Goozner Modern HC
Planned Parenthood Critics Trapped Themselves
Ross Ramsey Tex. Trib.
The Impossible (Pipe) Dream of Single-Payer
Henry J. Aaron Brookings
Hamilton and Health Care
David Blumenthal Commonwealth Fund Blog


Thursday, January 28
Cruz Assails Trump over Abortion, 'Trumpcare'
Katie Glueck Politico
Analyst: Sanders' Plan Is Too Good To Be True
Jonathan Cohn HuffPo
What Would Single-Payer Mean for Doctors?
Joyce Frieden MedPage
Few Doctors Account for Big Share of Malpractice
Karen Pallarito HD
Anthem Sees Obamacare Premiums Rising in 2017
Z. Tracer Bloomberg
Theranos Lab May Pose Threat to Patient Safety
Reed Abelson NYT
Officials Call for Stronger Efforts to Combat Drug Abuse
Whalen WSJ
Senate GOP Plots Next Steps on Opioid 'Epidemic'
J. Carney The Hill
Hospitals Prepare to See Stars in April
Sabriya Rice Modern Healthcare
Cancer Leaders Urge Wider HPV Vaccinations
Ackerman Houston Chron.
Scientists Discover Gene Tied to Schizophrenia
Amy Ellis Nutt WaPo
Mass. Threat to Sue Gilead Is Uncertain Gambit
Ed Silverman Pharmalot
Consumers Combining Limited Coverage Plans
Michelle Andrews KHN
Why Extending Deadlines Can Raise Premiums
Robert Book Apothecary
Obamacare Is Failing. Here's What We Should Do
Carly Fiorina Time


Friday, January 29
Drug Shortages Force Rationing of Treatments
Sheri Fink N.Y. Times
Merck Sets $56K Price for Newly Approved Hep C Drug
L. Johnson AP
Calif. Voters Will Have Their Say on Drug Prices
Anna Gorman CHL
Big Pharma Takes a Beating from Democrats
Dylan Scott Stat
Cruz Dodges Question on ACA Replacement
Jonathan Cohn HuffPo
Cruz's Claim that 'Obamacare Is a Job Killer'
Mark Sullivan Fast Company
Donald Trump's Left-Wing Health Care Policy
Jake Flanigin Quartz
Republicans: Obama Failing to Enforce Abortion Law
Peter Sullivan Hill
AHIP Starts Medicare Advantage Political Pressure
Herman Mod. HC
Walgreens Suspends Theranos Services in Calif.
Shaji & Patnaik Reuters
Texas Tries to Repair State's Family Planning Clinics
W. Goodwyn NPR
Reports Detail Issues at Reservation Hospitals
Regina Garcia Cano AP
Zika, Politics Could Be Volatile Mix
Kenen & Haberkorn Politico
Prior Research Helps Zika Vaccine Efforts
Thompson HealthDay
Employer-Based Insurance: Unfair & Unaffordable
Roger Collier THCB
Saturday, January 30
Down with the Tyranny of the Fitbit
Steven Petrow Washington Post
Rethinking the Calorie
Cynthia Graber & Nicola Twilley The Atlantic
Why Do People Put on Differing Amounts of Weight?
BBC
You're Going to Gain This Much Weight
Christopher Ingraham Wonkblog
Reducing Preventable Harm in Hospitals
David Bornstein N.Y. Times
Why the Fix for Patient Mix-Ups Isn't Easy
John McQuaid Stat
How to Make Home Birth a Safer Option
Aaron E. Carroll Upshot
GE Eases Children's Fears of Medical Scans
Guy Boulton Milwaukee JS
How Scared Should You Be About Zika?
Michael T. Osterholm N.Y. Times
The Cancer Moonshot Task Force Agenda
Joe Biden Medium
Medical Advocates Guide Patients on Difficult Choices
Sadick KHN
Monkeys Built to Mimic Autism-Like Behaviors
Pam Belluck N.Y. Times
Think Twice Before Having Wisdom Teeth Removed
Rob Wile Fusion
Beards May Be More Hygienic than Shaving
Kate Ng Independent
'Downton Abbey' Rant against Gov't-Run Health Care
Philip Klein WE
Monday, February 1
U.K. Approves Editing Genes in Human Embryos
Andrew Joseph Stat
Lawmakers Examine Oversight of Medical Devices
Chad Terhune KHN
Low Participation Hampers Cancer Clinical Trials
David Templeton PPG
Biogen VP: Google Wants to Take Over CMS
Meghana Keshavan MedCity
U.S. Weighs Changes to Blood Donations Due to Zika
D. Thompson HD
Zika Virus Sparks Renewed Debate about Abortion
Jasmine Garsd NPR
Senate Panel to Hold Hearing on Zika Virus
Jordain Carney The Hill
Trump on Heath Care: 'We'll Work Something Out'
Elize Foley HuffPo
An Uncomfortable Question for Cruz on ACA
Matt Fiegenheimer NYT
Annual Physical Wastes Money, Some Doctors Say
Kim Painter USAT
What Trump's Drug Price Plan Should Tell Us
JK Wall Health Care Blog
Breaking Link between Violence & Mental Health
Paul Gionfriddo WE
Why Insurance Premiums Are Rising
Reggie & Campbell Wash. Times
ACA Pummels Blue Cross Blue Shield of N.C.
Chris Conover Apothecary
Sustaining the Marketplace for a Healthier America
Tom Daschle Hill


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