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“Risk Pools” Will Be Buzzword for Obama Repeal

In the national health insurance debate, repeal is the word on everyone’s lips, as in “the repeal of Obamacare.” But soon enough, “risk pools” will be the new buzzword. And there are some very potent reasons why. For all of the GOP’s and Donald Trump’s bashing of Obamacare, there are two provisions of the ACA […]

January 18, 2017

Study: Home Visit Program for Infants Cuts Costs

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Newborns enrolled in New Mexico’s home visiting program are less likely to use costly medical services than other children in their first year. According to a new Rand Corp. study, children enrolled in the New Mexico First Born program were a third less likely to visit an emergency room than newborns in […]

January 18, 2017

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N.M. Exports Video Mentoring Model for Physicians

ESPANOLA, N.M. — The heart of an unborn child beat strong and steady through an amplified monitor, as physician Leslie Hayes examined a pregnant 40-year-old who recently was weaned from heroin with help from anti-craving medication. Hayes and her colleagues treat more than 200 patients for drug-use disorders involving heroin and prescription opioid pain medication […]

January 18, 2017

$10K Grant Goes to LSU Project for Homeless

NEW ORLEANS — A New Orleans human services nonprofit is giving $10,000 to a program run by medical students to help homeless women and children get health care and education. LSU Health New Orleans says the grant comes from La Societe des Dames Hospitalieres. Students from five of the six schools at LSU Health New […]

January 18, 2017

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Healthcare Repeal Would Burden Native Americans

A repeal of the Affordable Care Act — now in the offing in Congress — could deal a body blow to healthcare for at least 33% of all Native Americans. The federal government promised free healthcare to tribes in treaties more than a century ago. The legislation that protects and modernizes those treaty promises was […]

January 18, 2017

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Study: Health Coverage Has Other Economic Benefits

House and Senate lawmakers took the first step last week toward repeal of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), better known as Obamacare. While there is no doubt of a major fight ahead over what happens next, researchers from the Brown School and Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis have given lawmakers something […]

January 18, 2017

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18 M Will Be Uninsured If Obamacare Dies

WASHINGTON — Insurance premiums would soar for millions of Americans and 18 million more would be uninsured in just one year if Republicans scuttle much of President Barack Obama’s healthcare overhaul without a replacement, Congress’ budget analysts said Tuesday (January 17). Spotlighting potential perils for Republicans, the report immediately became a flashing hazard light for […]

January 18, 2017

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Leadership & Policy

Janet Napolitano Hospitalized Due to Side Effects of Cancer Care

SAN FRANCISCO — University of California President Janet Napolitano, a former U.S. Homeland Security secretary and governor of Arizona, has been undergoing cancer treatment for five months and was hospitalized after suffering complications, the school system said. The UC Office of the President said Napolitano, 59, was diagnosed last August but did not say what […]

January 18, 2017

Senators Grill HHS Pick on Care Act, Stock Trades

Rep. Tom Price—President-elect Donald Trump’s controversial pick for secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services—said “nobody is interested in pulling the rug out from anybody” as part of Republican efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act. “It’s not our plan for people to lose coverage,” Price told members of the Senate Health, Education, […]

January 18, 2017

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Faculty & Staff

Diverse Docket: Court Rules Kankakee CC Did Not Violate Religious Rights

An Illinois community college did not violate the religious rights of a student excluded from its paramedic program for refusing to be vaccinated, an appeals panel has ruled.

January 17, 2017

University of Michigan Announces Efforts to Address Poverty

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — The University of Michigan is planning a series of projects that aim to bridge the gap between research and community efforts to prevent and alleviate poverty, the school announced Tuesday. The initiative, called “Poverty Solutions,” will explore and test models to ease the effects of poverty and broadly share that knowledge. […]

January 17, 2017

We Need “Single Payer”

At his press conference Wednesday at Trump Tower, President-elect Donald Trump said that as soon as the Senate approves his pick for health secretary, he will unveil a “repeal and replace” plan for the Affordable Care Act, known as “Obamacare.” He gave no hints at the details of Trumpcare, other than to say the country […]

January 17, 2017

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Native Americans Make Progress on Diabetes

Diabetes-related kidney failure among Native American adults fell by more than half over almost 20 years, a U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report shows. The change is due to improvements in diabetes and kidney care, according to the report. The new research also found that among these patients, blood sugar control improved 10 […]

January 17, 2017

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Medical Groups Split on Trump HHS Pick

The medical community is divided on whether they support or oppose President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead HHS — Rep. Tom Price, MD (R-Ga.), according to MedPage Today. Here are five takeaways: 1. The American Medical Students Association, Physicians for a National Health Program and National Nurses United oppose Mr. Trump’s pick. 2. The Americans […]

January 17, 2017

Trump Choice for HHS Vows to Divest Health Stocks

Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Health and Human Services will sell off his healthcare investments after facing scrutiny over his stock trades. Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.), in a letter to the HHS ethics office, vowed to divest his interests in 43 companies within 90 days if confirmed by the Senate. Read More

January 17, 2017

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100s Face Loss of Disability Checks in Fraud Probe

MINNIE, Ky. —Donna Dye saw the coal truck come barreling over the horizon and her head started spinning with that familiar, desperate urge to end it all. She thought of the disconnect notices, the engagement ring she pawned to keep the lights on, the house she loved and would probably lose. Life insurance was the […]

January 17, 2017

Stocks Slide After Trump Attacks Drugmakers

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday said pharmaceutical companies are “getting away with murder” in what they charge the government for medicines, and promised that would change, sending drugs stocks sharply lower. The benchmark S&P 500 index .SPX slipped into negative territory after his remarks at a news conference spooked investors. The iShares Nasdaq Biotech […]

January 17, 2017

Rural Hospitals Brace for Healthcare Repeal

CONNELLSVILLE, Penn. — Judy Keller, 69, has always relied on Highlands Hospital for medical care, just as her parents did before her. When she walks through the halls, she recognizes faces from the community and even from her days working as a school teacher. The 64-bed facility, she says, is a mainstay of this rural […]

January 17, 2017