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Monthly Archive for: ‘March, 2012’
Second CO-OP to form in Oregon
Oregon will have two CO-OPs forming in Oregon, after news of federal loans awarded to Oregon’s Health CO-OP. Together with CCO’s and the Exchange, there is a lot brewing to transform how Oregonians access and purchase insurance and get better care, and even more need for consumer input. You can read the CMS award press release here.
Read MoreNature-Deficit Disorder
Timothy Egan, who writes ”on American politics and life, as seen from the West,” has a great Opinionator piece in The New York Times this week. Here’s an excerpt: Something’s amiss. A third of all American adults — check, it just went up to 35.7 percent — are obese. The French don’t even have a word for fat, Paul Rudnick mused …
Read MorePrimer for Supreme Court Oral Arguments
For those who want to understand the different and varied legal questions argued before the Supreme Court this week, the NY Times put together a pretty good primer for taking a closer look at the constitutional questions that will be decided. It is complicated and each day’s arguments have focused on specific aspects of the Affordable Care Act. Whenever the …
Read MoreHealth care on pace to grab half of typical family income
In The Oregonian, Joe Rojas-Burke reports: Health insurance for a family could cost more than the annual earnings of half of U.S. households by 2033, if premiums and wages continue at the current pace. As a result, the health system is headed toward a meltdown unless the country can agree on reforms that substantially curb the growth of spending, according to an …
Read MoreStudy Indicates Low Health Literacy Can Increase Mortality Risk
The results of a longitudinal study published this week in the British Medical Journal reports that a third of older adults in England have difficulties reading and understanding basic health related written information and this poorer understanding is associated with higher mortality, Having just attended a conference on health literacy, this has significant importance as the CCOs continue to evolve …
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