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Health Highlights: March 22, 2012
Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments,
compiled by the editors of HealthDay:
Dissolvable Tobacco Products May Have Fewer
Health Risks: FDA Panel
While dissolvable tobacco products could pose fewer health risks
compared to cigarettes, they could increase the number of tobacco users in
the United States, a Food and Drug Administration advisory panel says.
Dissolvable tobacco — finely milled tobacco pressed into shapes like
tablets that slowly dissolve in the mouth — are one of the cigarette
alternatives being considered by tobacco companies for future sales
growth, the Associated Press reported.
There is a lack… Continue reading
Health care hearings – what to listen for (Part 2)
The Supreme Court holds three days of hearings next week on the constitutionality of major parts of the new federal health care law, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Two days ago, the National Constitution Center’s Peter Jennings Project for Journalists and the Constitution presented a moot court on the constitutional issues surrounding the central feature of the Act – the mandate requiring virtually all Americans to obtain health insurance by the year 2014. Those “justices” voted 8-1 to uphold the mandate. Hear their opinions and watch the program in its entirety on Fora.tv.
If the Court ultimately strikes… Continue reading
Health care message wars heat up
Tea party supporters protest against the health care bill in March 2010 outside the U.S. Capitol in Washington.
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
- Second anniversary of President Obama signing health care reform into law approaches
- Democrats plan to highlight key provisions of law this week
- Obama Cabinet officials are going on the road to tout what they say has worked
- Republicans are using anniversary to argue law should be repealed
Washington (CNN) — Two years after President Barack Obama signed health care reform legislation — and with the U.S. Supreme Court about to consider a challenge from several states trying to overturn it… Continue reading
Health Highlights: March 19, 2012
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Court weighs making health coverage a fact of life
WASHINGTON (AP) — Death, taxes and now health insurance? Having a medical plan or else paying a fine is about to become another certainty of American life, unless the Supreme Court says no.
People are split over the wisdom of President Barack Obama‘s health care overhaul, but they are nearly united against its requirement that everybody have insurance. The mandate is intensely unpopular even though more than 8 in 10 people in the United States already are covered by workplace plans or government programs such as Medicare. When the insurance obligation kicks in, not even two years… Continue reading
“Interconnected Health 2012” Program Highlights
NEEDHAM, Mass. & ANN ARBOR, Mich. & CHICAGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–
“Interconnected Health 2012: Enabling Health through High-Impact
IT;” presented by OMG®,Health Level Seven®
International (HL7), and HIMSS, features a full program of top-notch
presenters and topics of interest to the healthcare IT community. The
event will be held at the Hyatt Regency O’Hare in Chicago, Ill., on
April 2-4, 2012. Registration information and the full program may be
found online at http://www.interconnected-health.org.
Interconnected Health 2012 focuses on approaches, challenges, and
solutions affecting the ability to connect health organizations and
systems, and the role… Continue reading
Health Highlights: March 12, 2012
Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments,
compiled by the editors of HealthDay:
White House Outlines Plan for Health Insurance
Exchanges
As part of the new health reform law, the U.S. government on Monday
released its blueprint for state insurance exchanges meant to allow
Americans to purchase health insurance in a more organized and competitive
market.
The new marketplaces, intended to provide one-stop insurance shopping,
are mandated to be up and running in every state by Jan. 1, 2014, as part
of the Affordable Care Act, the Associated Press reported.
Individuals and small businesses are the… Continue reading
