Health Care For America Now

NEWS

Health Care for America Now protests AHIP in Rhode Island - Turnto10.com

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Paying Workers to Go Abroad for Health Care - Wall Street Journal

Insured Americans are starting to see some unusual options in their health-provider networks: doctors and hospitals in Singapore, Costa Rica and other foreign destinations.

Physician Payments May Take Hit as Medicaid Enrollment Swells in Declining Economy - MedPage Today

Medicaid payments to physicians may be trimmed next year as states seek to offset the cost of growing enrollment in the programs, according to the authors of a Kaiser Family Foundation Survey.

Economic slump finds more people on Medicaid - Detroit Free Press

The nation's slumping economy is triggering growing Medicaid enrollment, a challenge to states like Michigan as they serve more uninsured people, state and national Medicaid experts said Monday.

Medicaid long-term health care costs to soar - Reuters

Fueled by the needs of a growing elderly population, U.S. spending on long-term health care under the Medicaid program will soar in the next 20 years, a report released on Monday predicted.

Victimized by the coverage gap - Philadelphia Inquirer

After Dan Daskus came down with cancer, the cost of co-pays and medicines left him thousands in debt.

You’re Sick. Now What? Knowledge Is Power. - New York Times

Are patients swimming in a sea of health information? Or are they drowning in it?

OPINION

America Needs A New New Deal - Wall Street Journal

The Bush administration has proposed the most expensive government spending plan in American history, allocating as much as $700 billion to a Wall Street bailout. The proposal was attacked by members of both parties, who immediately began negotiations to find an alternative. The Bush plan was not only a political blunder; it was also a complete repudiation of the administration's own economic policies. It could not be justified by any of the core beliefs governing free enterprise and the free market.

WHY WE NEED HEALTH REFORM. - Ezra Klein

In the Politico today, Jim Vandehei and Mike Allen offer something of a reality check on the next president's spending priorities. In particular, they say, "How can you expand health care coverage when the country is broke? The federal debt is now expected to top $11 trillion by 2010."

Make health care costs part of economic cure - Detroit Free Press

The way we finance health care is a fundamental economic issue and critical to consider in the presidential election.