First Edition: August 28, 2014 -
Today's headlines include reports on the latest projections from the Office of Congressional budget on spending Medicare and Medicaid
Kaiser health News .: Law Spurs health focus on developing drugs faster
Kaiser health News staff writer Daniela Hernandez reports :. "Imagine if scientists could recreate you --- or at least a part of you --- on a chip This could help doctors identify drugs that could help you heal more quickly, without going through the process of trial and sometimes painful mistakes and costs of heavy healthcare accompanying reaching the right treatment. now at the University of California, Berkeley, researchers in the lab of bioengineer Kevin Healy working to make it happen. Funded under a provision of the health Act, they try to grow human organ tissues such as heart and liver, on tiny chips "(Hernandez, 8/28). Read the story, which also ran in Wired
Kaiser Health News: Capsules: CBO Projects Lower Medicare and Medicaid costs ;. urgent care centers open for people with mental lllness
Now on the blog of Kaiser Health News, Mary Agnes Carey reports on the latest CBO projections for Medicare and Medicaid: "Reduce costs for medical services and workforce reduced the expected cost of 10 years of Medicare and Medicaid by $ 89 billion, the Congressional budget office said Wednesday Medicare spending is expected to decline to $ 49 billion - ;. or less than 1 percent - , from 2015 and 2024, while Medicaid spending is expected to decline to $ 40 billion -, or about 1 percent - during the next decade, the CBO said in an update to its forecast in April "( Carey, 8/27).
Also on Capsules, Anna Gorman reports on how urgent care centers open to treat people with mental illness, "urgent care centers for mental health, also known as crisis stabilization units, are opening throughout California, in response to the shortage of psychiatric beds and the increase of patients with mental illnesses occur in hospital emergency rooms with nowhere to go, the experts and advocates said. In Los Angeles County, four of these centers have opened and several more are planned. Director of Mental Health Los Angeles County Marvin Southard said the centers are a more effective means of care for many patients with mental illness and are less disruptive to hospitals. and supervisor of the county Mark Ridley-Thomas, who led the effort to open the center, said they are "more human" and a smarter approach "(Gorman, 8/28). Find out what the rest is on the blog
the Associated Press :. 3 Ways insurers may discourage Sick to include
insurers can not refuse customers with expensive medical conditions through the consolidation of health care. but consumer advocates warn that companies still use a scope to discourage sicker -; and most expensive -; patient enrollment Some insurers exclude cancer centers well known in the list of suppliers they cover. a diet; requiring patients to make large upfront payments for drugs against HIV; or delay participation in public insurance exchanges created by the review (8/27)
the Washington Post:. Health premiums Fall In Arkansas
Governor office of Arkansas Mike Beebe said Wednesday that most healthcare customers will pay less for their plans next year, relief for residents of - state; Democratic Senator and trying to keep his seat in one of the most expensive elections in the country. health care premiums will decline about 2 percent next year, Beebe (D) wrote in a Wednesday statement. Beebe helped lead a Republican legislature to once reluctant to expand Medicaid. In his statement, he said that insurance costs nationwide "historically increased by six to ten percent per year." The state has used federal funds to start a private Medicaid option that has been described as a potential model for the conservative states of trend (Ferris, 8/27)
Wonkblog Washington Post :. The Dark Of Obamacare party taking Executive Pay
We all know Obamacare is a pretty great law, with many arcane provisions that do not receive much attention. Firstly, the law seeks large packages of executive pay in health insurance companies -; and on the basis of data published on Wednesday the provision is already in a long way. Companies have long been able to deduct the salaries of executives of their federal tax bill, although since the early 190s -; in an effort to reduce excessive remuneration -; the government limited the amount to $ 1 million (Millman, 8/27)
USA Today. Consumers Deal With Deadline insurance, Site Glitches
Hundreds of thousands of people risk losing their new health insurance policies if they do not resubmit the citizenship or immigration information to the government by the end of next week - but the federal website Healthcare.gov remains glitchy they have a difficult time respect. Consumers are forced to send their information several times, and many can not access their accounts at all, experts in immigration law and insurance agents say (O'Donnell, 8/27)
the New York Times .: expansion of mental health care Results obstacles
the affordable care Act has paved the way for a vast expansion of the coverage of mental health in America, giving access to millions of people who were previously uninsured or whose policies did not include such coverage before. Under the law, the treatment of mental health is an "essential" benefits that must be covered by Medicaid and private plans sold by each new insurance markets online (Goodnough, 8/27)
The Washington Post :. How you end up spending $ 800 million on Healthcare.Gov
Promulgated by President Obama March 23, 2010, the Affordable Care Act has proved to be its own kind of job action, particularly regarding community IT Washington area. When, in many places, the bill called for the creation of a "website" to allow Americans to find and register for a new health insurance coverage, he opened the tap hundreds of millions of dollars that would eventually go to the creation of HealthCare. gov of front and rear end, and a small accompanying world of digital sites. On Wednesday, the office of Daniel Levinson, the Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services, issued a report detailing dozens of contracts which are entered into the construction of the federal market project. And a look at each in the disaggregated paints a picture of a much wider effort even than suggested by half a billion dollars the federal government has already paid for implementing the digital part of the law on health insurance (Scola, 8/27)
The Washington post :. Why That One Democratic Obamacare announcement did not know when a new trend
When Senator Mark Pryor of Arkansas went with a TV commercial last week hinting at some benefits of Obamacare supporters on the left and the right saw the place as a sign that vulnerable Democrats might finally be embracing the polarization review of health care in their campaigns. But in the days since, it became clear: there is little evidence that the hotly debated law is on his way to becoming a Democratic talking point central position in the fall campaign (Gold, 8/27)
The Wall. Street Journal: As deficit forecast Trimmed Rates Stay Low
small deficits are the result of a variety of factors, including higher tax revenues and economic growth, budget cuts and new limits on government spending. The agency forecasts the government spend less on Medicare and Medicaid over the next decade, he said earlier this year. Yet the changes were relatively minority, less than 1% of total spending on programs. CBO expects the deficit to shrink for several years before starting a steady expansion in 2018, driven by the aging US population, rising health care costs and increased subsidies for certain federal programs (Paletta, 8 / 27).
The Associated Press: US economy forecast to grow 1.5 percent in 2014
The Congressional Budget Office Wednesday forecast that the US economy will grow only 1.5 percent in 2014, undermined by poor performance in the first three months of the year. The new assessment was more pessimistic than the Obama administration, which predicted last month that the economy would increase by 2.6 percent this year, although it has contracted at an annual rate of 2.1 percent in the first quarter (8/27).
The Washington Post: New Obama plan calls for Computer Chips Implanted to help the health of troops
When President Obama on Tuesday highlighted 19 actions of the executive, he said he taking to improve the mental health of US troops and veterans, one of the novel centered on a particular effort. the development of new computer chips designed to modulate the nervous system to help with everything from arthritis to post-traumatic stress (Lamothe, 8/27)
NPR: Life After Ice Buckets: ALS Group Faces 94 million $ challenge
the ALS ice bucket challenge continues to make huge donations this summer to efforts to cure and treat what is commonly known as the disease of Lou Gehrig. Starting today, the viral campaign has raised over $ 94 million for the ALS Association. That compared with $ 2.7 million raised by the group during the same period last year. Now the association is facing a challenge of his own :. Determine how best to spend all that money (Fessler, 8/27)
The New York Times: Death Toll Rising Heroin In New York, amid a shift in Who Uses It
A crisis of heroin seized communities across the country deepened in New York last year, with more people in the city died in drug overdoses than in any year since 03 in total, 420 people fatally overdosed heroin in 2013 a total of 782 drug overdoses, reaching a level not seen in a decade in both absolute terms and as a ratio of adjusted population, according to preliminary year-end of the department of city health (Goodman, 8/28)
the Associated Press. deal on health AIDS Care Port Talks contract
Negotiators hope to forge a new contract for dockworkers and keep hundreds of billions of dollars of goods transported smoothly through the West Coast ports have made significant progress with an agreement principle on health care benefits, a challenge that tied up talking for months. West Coast dockworkers already unusually generous health benefits -; so generous, argue their employers who pay for the coverage, the insurance plan has become riddled with fraud (8/27)
The Associated Press. Firm Allegedly workers Gipped Out Of Jobs, $ 100K
Prosecutors hammered a Brooklyn entrepreneur Wednesday with allegations that he cheated workers out of $ 100,000 and returned to the promises of permanent jobs and health care. Entrepreneur Anthony Miller and his cabinet Bael Out Enterprises have been translated in Brooklyn Supreme Court on charges that they conspired to defraud more than 70 workers and failed to obtain the workers' compensation insurance (8/27).
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