Weekly Roundup – May 17, 2013

Happy National Women’s Health Week to all our fabulous Disruptive Women readers! Lots of groups released information and toolkits in celebration. If you haven’t had a chance to check them out yet here are just a few: NWLC toolkit, interactive screening chart and infographic done by HHS.
In other news, the Washington Post reported on the possibility that cancer patients and others taking pricey drugs might pay even more for their medications under ACA.
An interesting study of Medicaid recipients in Oregon found that increased health care spending had a limited impact on improving people’s health. Learn more here.
Although more young adults have the option to stay on their parents’ health insurance, they still may have a hard time getting certain services like mental health, substance abuse and maternity care covered. Kaiser Health News has more details here.
Kaiser also had an interesting article that looked at how some doctors are transforming how they provide care.
Once again doctors and nurses are disagreeing over what nurses’ roles should be; learn the specifics on this argument in a Kaiser Health News article.
There is good news for retired or retiring couples… according to a study by Fidelity Investments a 65-year-old couple retiring this year would need $220,000 on average to cover medical expenses. This is an 8 percent decrease from last year.
Finally, there were two interesting articles about women in power. The first, in Bloomberg, looked at how much...

Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - May 17, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Roundup weekly roundup Source Type: blogs