RealClearHealth Week of March 21, 2016 Archives

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Monday, March 21
Nurses Are Slowly Winning Fight with Doctors
Lydia DePhillis Wonkblog
What's the Cost of a Return to House Calls?
Soumya Karlamangla LAT
A New Role For Veterans Health Administration
Joel Kupersmith HA
In Okla., Prisons Have Become Mental Hospitals
J. Cosgrove Oklahoman
CDC: 116 Cases of Zika in U.S. Residents
Steven Reinberg HealthDay
Barriers to Health Care Common for LGBT
Andrew Seaman Reuters
VC Firms Are Pouring Money into Health Insurance
Bob Herman MH
Janus Launches 'Obesity ETF' for Investors
Bob Bryan Business Insider
How ACA Is Changing the Startup World
Ezekiel J. Emanuel Fortune
How a Fitbit May Make You a Bit Fit
Alex Hutchinson New York Times
Why Scientific Fraud Hurts People
Ivan Oransky & Adam Marcus Stat
Increase Funding for Child Health Studies
John Barnard Columbus Disp.
An Ounce of Prevention for Infectious Diseases
The Economist
Public Health 'Monster Spray' Won't Stop Zika
Opal & Kini USA Today
Little Sisters of the Poor Case & Religious Liberty
Douglas Laycock WP


Tuesday, March 22
The Next Obamacare Sales Pitch
Dylan Scott Stat
White House's Advantage in Contraception Case
Lisa Schencker Mod HC
Valeant Sold Some Drugs Twice
Matt Levine Bloomberg View
Apple Takes on Health Like Never Before
G. Clay Whittaker Daily Beast
Fitness Trackers Bad at Tracking Calories
Lisa Rapaport Reuters
Tavenner on the Challenges Ahead for AHIP
Kirkner Managed Care
Debate over Addiction Treatment Privacy Rules
Michelle Andrews KHN
What's the Answer for Relief of Chronic Pain?
Rita Rubin Forbes
U.S. Heart Disease Deaths Shifting South
Amy Norton HealthDay
Elizabethkingia Is Sickening People in the Midwest
Julia Belluz Vox
Is Long-Term Use of Heartburn Meds Wise?
David Templeton Pitts. P-G
Fixing Risk Adjustment In Med. Adv.
Margaret Murray Morning Consult
It's Time for Immediate U.S. Action on Zika
May Berenbaum L.A. Times
ACA Birth-Control 'Exemption' Tramples on Rights
Constance Veit NYT
An Empty Democratic Plan on Drug Costs
John C. Lechleiter W.S. Journal


Wednesday, March 23
Medicare Saved $473 Billion from Cost Slowdown
Peter Sullivan The Hill
On ACA Anniversary, White House Declares Victory
Maggie Fox NBC
Americans Get Used to Popular Provisions of ACA
Muchmore Mod. HC
VA's Veterans Choice Program Is Broken
Quil Lawrence NPR
Debate Heats Up over Who Pays for Telemedicine
Melissa Bailey Stat
Get Comfortable With Bundled Payments
Philip Betbeze HealthLeaders
Obama's Budget Takes on Surprise Medical Bills Debate
Ahn et al. HAB
Employer Self-Insuring Is All the Rage
Peter Wehrwein Managed Care
Electronic Records No Panacea at End of Life
Shefali Luthra KHN
Big Price Hikes for Aid in Dying Drug
April Dembosky KQED
Less Than 3% of Americans Live a Healthy Lifestyle
R. Preidt HealthDay
A Weak Challenge to ACA's Contraception Mandate
Washington Post
No Contraception? No Equality
Elizabeth Deutsch New York Times
Are Our Religious Freedoms in Jeopardy?
Chris Stewart Examiner
Repeating LBJ's Health Care Mistakes
Lucadamo & McKee U.S. News


Thursday, March 24
NFL's Concussion Research Is Deeply Flawed
Schwarz et al. NYT
The Word 'Hijack' May Tell It All in Zubik Case
Denniston SCOTUSblog
Contraception Case Could Could Have Wide Impact
Caitlin Owens MC
Med Students Sidelined Despite Doc Shortage
Gunderman Conversation
HIPAA Audits May Lead to Stronger Vendor Contracts
Conn Mod. HC
Ransomware Wreaking Havoc on Hospitals
Seung Lee Newsweek
Paul Allen Pledges $100M for Bioscience Research
Cha Washington Post
Paying for Kidneys Might Boost Donor Rate
Steven Reinberg HealthDay
Congress Takes Recess Before Voting on Zika Funds
David Nather Stat
Bill Targets Kids Born Dependent on Opioids
Shiffman & Wilson Reuters
ACA Drives Popular Plans Into Extinction
Justin Haskins RealClearPolicy
The Unfinished Work of Obamacare
Bloomberg View
Opioid Guidelines Should Be a Mandate
Ingoglia & Vaughn U.S. News
Religious Freedom Deserves Deference
USA Today
Will the Supreme Court Buy Faulty Logic?
Jesse Wegman N.Y. Times


Friday, March 25
Illegal Immigrants Get Public Health Care
Louise Radnofsky WSJ
Why Prescription Drugs Aren't Part of Obamacare
Caitlin Owens MC
CBO Offers Mixed View of Health Law Costs
Robert Pear New York Times
How to Get to a Value-Based Health Care System
RealClearHealth
CMS to Test Paying More for Skilled Nursing
Virgil Dickson Mod. HC
Demand for Addiction Treatment During Pregnancy
Vestal Stateline
Tiny Opioid Patients Need Help Easing Into Life
Kirstin Gourlay NPR
Heart Attacks Striking Younger, Fatter Americans
Reinberg HealthDay
Primary Care Falls Short Managing Depression
Michelle Andrews KHN
New System Needed to Track Faulty Devices
Meredith Cohn Balto. Sun
How Do Family Caregivers Learn Skills?
Taunya English WHYY
When a Surgeon Should Just Say 'I'm Sorry'
Elizabeth Cohen CNN
Covered for the Hospital, not the Doctors
David Lazarus L.A. Times
Q & A: Little Sisters of the Poor v. Burwell
Melinda Henneberger Roll Call
What Religious Freedom Means
Noah Feldman Bloomberg View
Saturday, March 26
Legalize It All to Win the War on Drugs
Dan Baum Harper's
Addicts For Sale in Florida's Delray Beach
Cat Ferguson Buzzfeed
Heroin Epidemic Yields to Deadlier Fentanyl
Katherine Q. Seelye NYT
Fighting the Opioid Epidemic with Medical Marijuana
G. Lopez Vox
One Man's Desperate Quest for a Brutal Surgery
Eric Boodman Stat
Daredevil Comic Takes on Depression
Victoria Pasquantonio NewsHour
Probing the Complexities of Transgender Mental Health
T. Haelle NPR
Dementia Care, Tailored to N.F.L. Retirees
Ken Belson New York Times
Apple's CareKit Is Argument for Strong Encryption
Brian Barrett Wired
The Tangled American Food-Safety System
Danny Vinik Politico
Future of Biosimilars Remains Unclear
S. R. Johnson Modern Healthcare
HillaryCare 2.0 -- Back to the Future
Jim Purcell The Health Care Blog
How Donald Trump Tweets about Obamacare
Dan Diamond Storify
In Defense of Moderate Drinking
Aaron E. Carroll Upshot
We Drank Gwyneth Paltrow's $200 Smoothie
Rachel Feltman WP
Monday, March 28
Nearly All U.S. Doctors 'Overprescribe' Opioids
Alan Mozes HealthDay
Mom's Role in Caring for Drug-Dependent Newborns
Jeff Cohen NPR
Anti-Vaccine Film Yanked from Film Festival
Steven Zeitchik L.A. Times
Medicaid Thrives More Than Exchange Plans
Kimberly Leonard US News
Cruz's Missing Obamacare Replacement Plan
Pradhan & Demko Politico
Google's Bid to Transform Medicine Hits Turbulence
Charles Piller Stat
Why Women Choose Double Mastectomies
Carey Goldberg WBUR
EHRs Begin to Transform Health Care
Guy Boulton Milwaukee Jour. Sent.
Quality of Primary Care in Medical Homes
Berenson & Burton HA Blog
Subpar Care at Massachusetts Nursing Homes
Kay Lazar Boston Globe
Supreme Court & What the ACA Actually Does
Young & Farias HuffPo
ACA Is on the Back Burner in Election
Albert R. Hunt Bloomberg View
Drug Price Controls Pose Lethal Problems
Thomas Stossel Fort Worth S-T
Protecting Employees' Health Data
New York Times
The Health Care Cost Transparency Trap
Nir J. Harish Health Care Blog


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