RealClearHealth Week of March 7, 2016 Archives

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Monday, March 7
Nancy Reagan: 'Champion' of Alzheimer's Research
Sheila Kaplan Stat
ACA Isn't Wiping Out Unpaid Hospital Bills
Melanie Evans Modern HC
Doctor Quality Ratings May Be Influenced by Setting
Kennedy Reuters
Senate Bill Would End Drug Ad Tax Breaks
Ed Silverman Pharmalot
Ayotte Makes Push for Senate Opioid Bill
Mark Hensch The Hill
States Remove Barriers To Physician Assistants
Bruce Japsen Forbes
Young Physicians & the Winds of Change
Peter Wehrwein Managed Care
Colonoscopy Culture Clash: Why Get One?
Rachel Zimmerman WBUR
Food Companies Distort Nutrition Science
Julia Belluz Vox
Zika Mosquito & Phila.'s 1793 Yellow Fever
Don Sapatkin Phila. Inquirer
Health Care's Challenge with Trafficking Victims
Gorenstein Marketplace
Precision Psychiatry: Hype or Promise?
Sally Satel L.A. Review of Books
Paying Employees to Lose Weight
Patel et al. New York Times
What Kennedy Noticed about Abortion in Texas
D. Paquette Wonkblog
MACRA, Interoperability & Post-Meaningful Use
Andy Slavitt THCB


Tuesday, March 8
Inside the $100 Million Ad Blitz for Harvoni
Rebecca Robbins Stat
Notifying Doctors Doesn't Stop Overprescribing
Seaman Reuters
Whistleblower Takes on 'Made in India' Drugs
Anna Edney Bloomberg
Results of Clinical Trials Often Kept Secret
Ben Sutherly Col. Dispatch
New Battle Over Retiree Medicare Advantage
Mary Ellen McIntire MC
Hospice Fraud Is a Costly Problem for Medicare
Kris Mamula Pitt. P-G
Deadly Superbugs from Hospitals Get Stronger in Sewers
Petersen LAT
Depression a Challenge for Primary Care Settings
Shefali Luthra KHN
Getting Hit With a Surprise Medical Bill
Haley Sweetland Edwards Time
Texas Disavows Women's Health Study
Edgar Walters Texas Tribune
Losing the Race Against Antibiotic Resistance
Aaron Carroll Upshot
Jimmy Carter & Good News About Cancer
Abby Haglage The Daily Beast
Don't Forget About the IPAB
James C. Capretta Mercatus Center
Reducing Drug Waste Could Save Billions of Dollars
New York Times
ACA Repeal Won't Bring the Change You're Hoping For
L.A. Times


Wednesday, March 9
Medicare to Test Ways to Cut Drug Prices in Part B
Robert Pear NYT
Oncologists Call New Part B Drug Plan 'Absurd'
Virgil Dickson Mod. HC
Slavitt Eyes Stability on ACA Exchanges
Tom Howell Washington Times
Healthcare.gov's Counihan Touts 'Maturing' Market
S. Ferris The Hill
FDA Settles over Promotion of Off-Label Use of Drug
Brady Dennis WP
Prices, Changing Preferences Drive Drug Spending
Dylan Scott Stat
Who Started (and Can Stop) Opioid Abuse
Caitlin Owens Morn. Consult
Financing Health Care to Hold Down Costs
Ed Silverman Pharmalot
Medical Bills Still Take Big Toll, Even with Insurance
Alison Kodjak NPR
Using Data To Help Home Health Workers
Julie Appleby KHN
USPSTF Proposes TB Screening for Some Adults
Mary Dallas HealthDay
Unintended Consequences of Breast-Feeding Promo
Carina Storrs CNN
New School Lunch Standards Are Working
Steven Czinn Washington Post
Will Congress Get Serious About Zika?
Bloomberg View
Medicare Was Built on Compromise. Now What?
Glenn Hackbarth HA


Thursday, March 10
Medicare Rx Proposal Will Need Help from Doctors
Caitlin Owens MC
An Experiment to Fight Perverse Incentives
Margot Sanger-Katz Upshot
Cigna Could Save $350M from Med. Adv. Shift
Bob Herman Modern HC
Drug Pricing Could Come Up in Innovation Bill
Peter Sullivan The Hill
NIH Funds Put Senate Innovation Bills in Jeopardy
Sheila Kaplan Stat
Leukemia Drug Keeps Getting Pricier
Carolyn Y. Johnson Washington Post
U.S. Cancer Death Rate Continues to Fall
Robert Preidt HealthDay
Over Half of Hospital Bills Don't Get Paid
Holly Fletcher Tennessean
FDA Deal Unlikely to Spark Off-Label Promotion
Silverman Pharmalot
Few Children Getting HPV Vaccine
Lori Kurtzman Columbus Dispatch
Procedure Allows Kidney Transplants from Any Donor
Gina Kolata NYT
Insurer Network Ratings Are Bizarre, Inconsistent
Chandler Apothecary
Fight The Urge To Criminalize Addiction
Rebecca Haffajee Health Affairs
How to Reduce Medicare Drug Costs
New York Times
Bevin Proving How Hard ACA Repeal Really Is
Jeffrey Young Huff. Post


Friday, March 11
$1.2 Billion in Loans to ACA Co-ops May Be Lost
Levine & Goldstein WP
Slavitt: Troubled Co-op Should Have Closed Sooner
P. Sullivan The Hill
Lawmakers Accuse Valeant of Stonewalling
Ed Silverman Pharmalot
Drug Makers Peer Out from the Bunker
Dylan Scott Stat
Admin. to Announce Funding to Fight Addiction
Sarah Ferris The Hill
Value-Based Care Rips Provider Profits
Gregory Freeman HealthLeaders
Costly, Dubious Care for Some Seniors with Cancer
Don Rauf HD
ERs Adapt to Meet Patient Demand for Routine Care
Abe Aboraya NPR
A Middle Ground for States on Birth Control?
Mattie Quinn Governing
California to Permit Physician-Assisted Suicide
Lisa Aliferis KQED
Ambry Genetics Opens Up Cancer Patient Data
Emily Mullin Bloomberg
Trump's Health Care Surrender
Paul Demko Politico
Okla. Medicaid Cut Won't Pass Federal Muster
Jesse Cross-Call CBPP
In Defense of Small Data
Anish Koka The Health Care Blog
ERISA Preemption & the Goals of Transparency
William Sage HA Blog
Saturday, March 12
Smoothing the Transition to Daylight Saving Time
HealthDay
Six Hours Of Sleep Is Not Enough
Jill Duffy Fast Company
Heroin Epidemic Increasingly Seeps Into Public View
Seelye N.Y. Times
Street Medicine For Homeless Goes Mainstream
Michael Rubinkam AP
Housing Project Takes On Seniors' Health
D. Gorn Kaiser Health News
Lead Exposure Affects Grown-Ups, Too
Brandon Patterson Mother Jones
Scientists Did Not Cure Autism, Cancer, Alzheimer's
S. Salzberg Forbes
Alzheimer's Gene Tests & the Desire to Know
Gina Kolata N.Y. Times
Tragedy, Tradeoffs & the Demise of Morcellation
Lisa Rosenbaum NEJM
The Man Who Hunts Medicare Scammers
J.C. Herz Wired
An Urgent Call for Diversity in Medicine
Clyde Yancy Stat
New Research Rewrites History of HIV in America
Julia Belluz Vox
Maria Sharapova and the Quest for an Edge
Aaron E. Carroll Upshot
Drug Maker: Sharapova Doping Is Great Publicity
Aaron Eglitis B'berg
What Reading Is Like If You Have Dyslexia
Tiffany Ap CNN
Monday, March 14
Average ObamaCare Premium Rises 5 Percent
Peter Sullivan The Hill
5 Insurers Take Big Share of Medicaid Expansion
Bruce Japsen Forbes
Study: Medicaid Expansion Boosted Colo. Economy
Olinger Denver Post
Hospitals Rattled by Drug Price Increases
Brady Dennis Washington Post
Voters Angry over Surging Prescription Drug Costs
Melanie Mason LAT
States Move to Control Painkiller Prescribing
Meier & Tavernise NYT
AHIP Preaches Collaboration Amid Divided Industry
Bob Herman MH
The Terminally Ill & 'Aid in Dying'
Jonathan Lapook 60 Minutes
We All Want to Die with Dignity -- But Not Yet
Chicago Tribune
Insurance Companies Turning to Home Care
Kathleen McGrory TBT
Sharp Rise in Preventive Mastectomies
Robert Preidt HealthDay
When Men Dodge the Doctor
Ilene Raymond Rush Philadelphia Inquirer
Retail Clinics Raise Medical Spending: So What?
Devon Herrick THCB
When Health Insurance Fails
Stephen Moore Washington Times
Working Together to Strengthen Medicaid
Fred Upton The Hill


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