The Wall Street Journal on Thursday published two editorials examining efforts to overhaul health care in Florida and New Jersey. Summaries appear below.Florida: Gov. Charlie Crist’s (R) observation that state regulations increase the cost of health insurance premiums “qualifies as a revelation in the policy world of health insurance,” according to a Journal editorial.
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AARP has launched a multimillion dollar campaign called “Keep Medicare Fair” to lobby Congress to eliminate Medicare premium increases from a bill proposed by Senate Finance Committee Chair Max Baucus (D-Mont.), The Politico reports. The bill would fund the delay of a scheduled 10.6% cut to Medicare physician payments by increasing Medicare beneficiaries’ premiums.
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The National African-American Tobacco Prevention Network this week is expected to officially announce its withdrawal of support for legislation that would allow FDA to regulate flavored tobacco products other than menthol cigarettes, according to the group’s executive director, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports (Young, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 5/29).The bill, sponsored by Sen.
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Summaries appear below of recent news about children’s health coverage in Arkansas and New Jersey.Arkansas: The Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families last week announced plans to launch a statewide three-year effort to increase enrollment in ARKids First by about 22,000 children, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports. ARKids First is the state’s version of SCHIP.
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An HIV/AIDS vaccine likely will not be available in the short term, Jean-Francois Delfraissy, director of France’s National Agency for Research on AIDS and Viral Hepatitis, said on Tuesday in Dakar, Senegal, Xinhuanet reports.
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The chances of older adults being institutionalized, for instance in a nursing home, go up significantly immediately after the death of a spouse, according to new research from Finland.
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Twenty percent of all federal Medicare fraud prosecutions are filed in South Florida, U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey said on Wednesday, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel reports (South Florida Sun-Sentinel, 5/29). U.S.
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Interrupting a signaling pathway in certain immune system cells in laboratory mice had the opposite effect researchers expected but opened the possibility of a new approach to treating Alzheimer’s disease, according to an article in the journal Nature Medicine.
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NPR’s “News & Notes” on Tuesday included a discussion with Daniel Halperin, a senior research scientist in the Department of Population and International Health at the Harvard School of Public Health, about a recent study that recommended a shift in HIV prevention strategies in Africa toward the promotion of male circumcision and partner reduction programs.
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The Wisconsin Association of Health Plans on Tuesday announced that 17 member companies will begin offering policyholders estimates of out-of-pocket health care costs before undergoing a test or procedure, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports. The group of insurers includes 13 of the 20 largest insurers in the state.
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