Reflexions: No return to "bad old days" of commitments on mental health fight for school meals; The role of physicians in the reform -
The New York Times: Guns and mental illness
It is difficult to read stories about Elliot Rodger, 22-year-old man who went on a murderous party in Isla Vista, California, last month. without feeling a certain empathy for his parents. We know his mother, alarmed by some of his YouTube videos misogynist, made a call which resulted in the police Rodger visit. the title of the meeting was that Rodger apparently calm and collected, easily deflected the police's attention, but surely there was a subtext. How worried -; how desperate, really -; be a mother to believe that the police should be called on his own son?. .. the current feeling among mental health professionals is that there is no return to the bad old days when people were able to live on their own have been locked for years in psychiatric hospitals (Joe Nocera, 6/2).
The New York Times' The Upshot: Calling a health problem An ordinary disease leads to bigger problems
As any parent knows, babies spit. It is gastroesophageal reflux, a pediatrician explain .... The biggest problem, however, is that the vast majority of these children are not "sick". We have just given an official diagnosis. This labeling of patients with a "disease" may have important implications for the health of both people and the nation's health care budget. About 50 percent of healthy infants will spit out more than twice a day. About 95 percent of them to completely stop without treatment. When the majority of children (and always had) a set of symptoms that disappear on their own, it is not a disease -; it is a variation of the normal (Aaron E. Carroll, 6/2).
The Washington Post: children hate school meals? Let them eat cake.
In 2010, alarmed by the circumference of more and more children across the country, Congress directed the Department of Agriculture to make healthier school meals. The USDA released shortly standards recommended by the experts that require, for example, more vegetables and whole grains and less sodium and fat. ... Now, four years later, the [School Nutrition Association] changed his tune and is lobbying Congress to dump the new nutritional requirements, leaving the districts opt indeed of them altogether. Judging by a vote of the House Appropriations Committee last week, Republicans look keen to push through the demands of the lobby. Rest assured, the School Nutrition Association says this about-face food has nothing to do with the fact that half of its revenue now comes from industry sources, as its spokesman recently told The Post (Catherine Rampell, 6/2).
Washington Wire The Wall Street Journal: What is missing from Supporters 'Correction' to the right of health care
A front-page story in the Washington Post on Saturday discuss positions Republican candidates on the affordable care Act included a curious quote from Rep. Steve Israel, chairman of the Democratic campaign committee of the House, who said that Republicans are "promising patches, but will not be specific." In fact, many conservatives have pointed out many alternatives to Obamacare. Republicans in the House have written at least 0 separate bills showing their ideas on health care, large and small. My own organization, the Next America, released its healthcare reform bill earlier this year (Chris Jacobs, 6 / . 2)
Bloomberg: Surveys Obamacare Tell us more about politics
This is not a law similar to Medicare, with advantages and easily identifiable costs many. Obamacare benefits - for example, those from the regulation of insurance companies -.. are virtually invisible to most policyholders So are most of the costs, such as the tax on medical devices This tax is most time spent on consumers, but consumers rarely know what their insurance pays specific expenses, or how these costs affect premiums. Furthermore, since almost everyone has some interaction with the health care and health insurance, it is easy for people to attribute - correctly or not - personal experiences to Obamacare (Jonathan Bernstein, 6/2 ).
Deseret News: Campaign supports Medicaid coverage Gap initiatives advancing Utahn Outlook
efforts by Governor Gary Herbert to seek flexibility in the development of a Utah-based solution for Medicaid expansion should be encouraged. Utahns skepticism justified on the Affordable Care Act should not blind policymakers to practical solutions to the needs of more than 50,000 adults in the poorest state (6/3).
The Hill: Health Insurance model must evolve
In 1964, only 34 percent of cancer patients were alive five or more years beyond diagnosis. Today, 66 percent are. The reason for this progress? Much of the new drugs. Yet despite the revolution in the treatment of many forms of cancer over the past 50 years, patients are still stuck with an insurance model from 1960 that discourages the use of innovative medicines to treat and cure disease while encouraging the most costly hospitalizations and medical services. This must change (John J. Castellani, 5/30)
The Wall Street Journal :. An opportunity amid problems VA
The President took a very real and personal commitment to veterans. To turn the crisis on the occasion and add to that legacy, it will be important to gather recommendations and begin to implement them, while the media and politics are attentive and are motivated to act (Drew Altman, 5 / thirty).
JAMA Internal Medicine: Physicians and Policy
A new health care system that provides universal, affordable and effective access will be difficult to achieve. Private insurers and all other businesses that benefit from the current trading system resist. A major reform will require a broad public support, which in turn rely on the defense by the medical profession. ... Physicians have the unique power to reshape the health care system. They are what makes it work and are the best qualified to evaluate and use its resources. But if they come together to support a major reform, the future of health care in the United States will be dark effect (Dr. Arnold S. Relman, 6/2)
JAMA Internal Medicine. The role of copy and paste the Electronic Health Record Hospital
After a slow start, hospitals in the United States quickly adopted electronic health records .... Yet the implementation of electronic health records can be a double edged sword. Their use can increase efficiency, facilitate information sharing, standardize hospital processes, and improve patient care. But their use can also have unintended consequences and be subject to abuse, such as when data is duplicated or models and check boxes are used to generate standardized text without a medical reason. ... In September 2012, federal officials warned against "misuse of electronic health records to bill for services never provided," and that the law enforcement agencies "will take action where justified "(Ann M. Sheehy, Daniel J. Weissburg and Shannon Dean, 6/2).
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