RealClearHealth Week of May 16, 2016 Archives

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Monday, May 16
Sorry, We Don't Take Obamacare
Elisabeth Rosenthal New York Times
Insurance Options Dwindle in Rural Regions
Mathews & Armour WSJ
New Hope for GOP After ACA Lawsuit Win
Peter Sullivan The Hill
Feds: Insurers Can't Discriminate Against LGBT
Jayne O'Donnell USAT
Vermont to Require Drug Makers to Explain Prices
Dave Gram AP
Drug Coupons & Narrower Forumularies
Ed Silverman Pharmalot
Big Pharma Innovation in Small Places
Jennifer Alsever Fortune
Study Finds X-Ray, CT Scan Costs Vary Widely
Alan Mozes HealthDay
Is Tuberculosis Making a Comeback?
Marsha Mercer Los Angeles Times
McDonald's Ends School Nutrition Program
Roberto Ferdman Wonkblog
EPA Official Links Environmental, Public Health
Sandy Bauers Phila Inq
Feds Propose More Access to Buprenorphine
John Fritze Baltimore Sun
When the Addict Is a Doctor
Steven Ross Johnson Modern Healthcare
Patients Are Responsible for Opioid Epidemic
Joel Zinberg City Journal
Big Talk About Big Data
Nancy Brinker & Eric Rosenthal The Hill


Tuesday, May 17
Court's Action Will Impact Birth Control
Lyle Denniston SCOTUSblog
The Supreme Court's Nonsense Ruling in Zubik
Garrett Epps Atlantic
What Happens if all ACA Insurers Leave a State?
Sarah Kliff Vox
EEOC Releases Rules on Wellness Programs
Jayne O'Donnell USA Today
Patient Consent Concerns for Blood, Biopsy Research
Dylan Scott Stat
House GOP Unveils $622 Million Zika Bill
Peter Sullivan The Hill
Wal-Mart Partners to Buy Drugs More Cheaply
Cortez & Pettypiece Bbrg
Valeant to Increase Heart Drug Discounts
Humer & Banerjee Reuters
Rates of Drinking, Drugs, Alzheimer's Vary by State
Tim Henderson SL
"Medical Marijuana" Defined State-by-State
Kenneth E. Leonard Conv.
The Promise of Telemedicine
Austin Frakt Upshot
Genes Explain Cancer Differences b/t Males, Females
Ron WinslowWSJ
Cancer Patient Receives 1st Penis Transplant in US
Carey Goldberg NPR
Parents Keep Kid's Leftover Opioid Rx Drugs
Randy Dotinga HealthDay
Congress Wakes Up to the Opioid Epidemic
New York Times


Wednesday, May 18
Highmark Sues U.S. Over Affordable Care Act
Anna Wilde Mathews WSJ
Inside the GOP's Plans to Overhaul Medicaid
Caitlin Owens Morn. Cons.
The Controversial Plan to Rate Hospitals by Stars
Jordan Rau WaPo
Naturopaths Push to Go Mainstream
Rebecca Robbins Stat
Rushing To Expand ACA Coverage to Immigrants
Pauline Bartolone CHL
Treating Opioid Addiction With Drugs Controversial
Andrea Hsu NPR
Half of People With Heart Attack Don't Know It
Fox & Powers NBC
Rural Hospitals Offer Safer, Cheaper Surgeries
Mary E. Dallas HlthDay
Contractor Hired to Run ERs on Reservations
Associated Press
Finding Organ Donors Concealed in Plain Sight
David Bornstein NYT
A New Kind of Pharmacy, Delivery Included
Laura Lorenzetti Fortune
Novartis Splits Drugs Business Into Two
Miller & Hirschler Reuters
Is High Rx Drug Spending Our New Normal?
Purvis & Kuntz H.A. Blog
Congress Struggles to Strike Deal on Zika Funds
Achenbach & Snell WP
Hillary Clinton's Modestly Radical Idea for Medicare
Bloomberg View


Thursday, May 19
Majority in U.S. Support Fed-Funded Healthcare
Frank Newport Gallup
UK to Press Big Pharma on Antibiotics
Fourcade & Baker Bloomberg
New York Insurers Ask for Big Rate Increases
Dan Goldberg Politico NY
Highmark ACA Suit Could Prompt Copycats
Kris Mamula Pittsburgh P-G
Congress Reluctant to Legislate Opioids
Harris & Huetteman NY Times
Docs: States Making Calculated Medicaid Cuts
Virgil Dickson Modern HC
Kansas Gov Cuts Medicaid Reimbursements
Bryan Lowry Wichita Eagle
Should Your Doctor Ask if You Own Guns?
Alice Park Time
Healthcare Costs Nosedive When Smokers Quit
Ronnie Cohen Reuters
Doctors, Families Differ on End-of-Life Care
Ashley Welch CBS News
How to Make Hospitals Less Deadly
James Lieber Wall Street Journal
Colon Cancer Prognosis Varies With Origin
Laurie McGinley Wash Post
Sickle Cell: We Know the Cause -- Where's the Cure?
Sharon Begley Stat
Obama's Unnecessary Contraception Culture War
Ramesh Ponnuru BV
A Healthcare Strategy for Bernie Sanders
Judy Spelman SF Chronicle


Friday, May 20
The Plan to Avert Post-Antibiotic Apocalypse
Ed Yong The Atlantic
Clinton Medicare Plan Could Up Obamacare Costs
Dan Mangan CNBC
Health Depts. Slashed While Awaiting Zika Funds
Alison Kodjak NPR
Quashed Report Warned of Prison Health Crisis
Kevin Johnson USAT
What You'll Pay for Healthcare in Retirement
Elizabeth Oâ??Brien Money
FDA OKs Immunotherapy Drug for Bladder Cancer
Andrew Pollack NYT
Medicare Pilot Will Hurt Seniors
Julie Vose Philadelphia Inquirer
Study: Half of U.S. Cancer Deaths Due to Bad Habits
Maggie Fox NBC
Minn. Nurses, Employer Spar Over Health Insurance
Jeremy Olson ST
Illinois Bill Would Require Audit of Medicaid Insurers
B. Herman MH
Family Physicians on Front Line Against Opioids
Wanda Filer The Hill
Senior Health About More Than Disease
Lauran Neergaard AP
Sanders Picked Wrong Year for Revolution
Max Ehrenfreund Wonkblog
Healthcare Reform and the Candidates
Michael Tanner National Review
Nintendo Wants to Jump Into Medical Device Biz
Matt Kamen Wired
Monday, May 23
Proposal to Cut Medicare Drug Payments Criticized
Robert Pear NYT
Clinton's Medicare Plan Could Cover 13M People
Sy Mukherjee Fortune
Elderly Book End-of-Life "Death Panel" Talks
Matt Sedensky AP
The Sugar Industry Hates FDA's New Labeling
Roberto Ferdman WB
Which Foods Have Added Sugar?
Margot Sanger-Katz Upshot
Criminal Trials of Former Health-Care Execs to Begin
Peter Loftus WSJ
Hospitals Campaign Against Insurance Mergers
Sheila Kaplan Stat
Prescriptions for Opioids Decline Amid Epidemic
Alison Stewart PBS
How Zika Became Another Washington Mess
Jennifer Haberkorn Polit.
Zika Cases Triple Under New Counting Method
Steven Reinberg HlthDay
Retail Clinics Spur New Health Care Usage
Bachrach & Frohlich HAB
Moving Patient Payment Upfront
Dave Barkholz Modern Healthcare
Time Runs Short House GOP Mental Health Bill
Peter Sullivan The Hill
Organs Kept "Alive" May Ease Transplant Shortage
Lenny Bernstein WP
"Biggest Losers" Took Drugs to Lose Weight
Maureen Callahan N.Y. Post


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