Coverage with no copay extended to birth control
The AP reports: A half-century after the advent of the pill, the Obama administration on Monday ushered in a change in women's health care potentially as transformative: coverage of birth control as prevention, with no copays. Services ranging from breast pumps for...
U.S. health care spending to reach $13,710 per person by 2020, government says
This week the Oregonian carried an AP story on the latest report from the CMS (Medicare/Medicaid) Office of the Actuary. Bottom line: The nation's health care tab is on track to hit $4.6 trillion in 2020, accounting for about $1 of every $5 in the economy, government...
Delivering Doctors to small towns and rural areas
The New York Times reports on an innovative program in Kansas: This state, so sparsely populated in parts that five counties have no doctors at all, has struggled for years to encourage young doctors to relocate to rural communities, where health problems are often...
Direct primary care: a medical home without insurance?
Tech Crunch, the technology blog, reports on MedLion, a new startup in California: MedLion makes a Medical Home available to virtually anyone regardless of their income. This will help the U.S. match other parts of the world that outpace the U.S. in prevalence of...
Eating is Xtreme as Ever at America’s Chains
"Stacked, Stuffed, and Topped" is the Trend at Applebee's and Elsewhere The Center for Science in the Public Interest reports: If this year’s winners of the Xtreme Eating Awards are any indication, the overfeeding of America seems likely to continue unabated at the...
Federal Panel Recommends Coverage for Contraception
The New York Times reports: A leading medical advisory panel recommended on Tuesday that all insurers be required to cover contraceptives for women free of charge as one of several preventive services under the new health care law... The recommendations came in a...
New Poll Shows that Health is Paramount Concern of Aging Boomers
Poll Reveals We're Unafraid of Losing Our Looks As We Age 77 million boomers are celebrating their 47th through 65th birthdays this year. According to the AP/LifeGoesStrong.com poll: Younger adults call 60 the start of old age, but baby boomers are pushing that number...
Only One Oregon Hospital Recognized for Use of Computerized Patient Records
In The Oregonian, Joe Rojas-Burke reports: A 25-bed hospital in Astoria is the only one in Oregon to gain national recognition for adopting computer information technology to improve patient care. The annual survey by Hospitals & Health Networks magazine...
Gov. Kitzhaber on the 2011 Oregon Legislative Session
» Watch the video Writing for the Salem Statesman-Journal, Peter Wong's is a based on a recent visit by Gov. John Kitzhaber to the paper's editorial board: Health care overhaul As the chief legislative author of a 1989 proposal that transformed a traditional Medicaid...
Oregon Study – the First of Its Kind – Shows Benefits of Providing Medical Insurance to Poor
Do people who can't afford health insurance benefit from regular health care when access is provided? You might think that the answer is obvious, but it's been debated for decades. But now, due to a tough political decision made in Oregon a few years ago, we have an...
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