Opioid epidemic would get worse under Trumpcare, Democrat senators say
While the state and the country are working to fight a spreading opioid epidemic, a new Democratic report outlines the risks the GOP health care bill puts on opioid treatment. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - June 29, 2017 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Coral Garnick Source Type: news
Asa Hutchinson: Changes Needed to U.S. Senate's Health Care Bill
LITTLE ROCK — Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson says the Senate GOP's health care legislation needs to ease some of its limits on Medicaid spending and give the state greater control over the program, warning that the state would face significant additional costs without the changes.
The Republican governor on Thursday outlined changes he'd like to see in the legislation aimed at repealing and replacing major portions of the 2010 federal health overhaul. Hutchinson, however, stopped short of saying whether he opposes the measure if it doesn't include the proposed changes.
Hutchinson says the elderly, blind and disabled co...
Source: Arkansas Business - Health Care - June 29, 2017 Category: American Health Source Type: news
The Latest: Auditor predicts 35 percent Medicaid cut by 2036
The Congressional Budget Office says Medicaid cuts in the Senate Republican health care bill would take a 35 percent bite off the program's projected spending by 2036 (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - June 29, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
GOP may keep some Obama tax hikes to save health care bill
Top Senate Republicans are considering keeping President Barack Obama's tax increase on wealthier people's investments (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - June 29, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
Rand Paul says splitting up health care bill could improve chances of Obamacare repeal
The Kentucky senator was among the first few Senate Republicans to come out against the Better Care Reconciliation Act (BCRA) last week (Source: Health News: CBSNews.com)
Source: Health News: CBSNews.com - June 29, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
The Latest: GOP Senate leaders add $45B to health care bill
Top Senate Republicans have agreed to add $45 billion for battling opioid abuse to their struggling health care bill (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - June 29, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
GOP adds opioid money to health bill, fate remains in doubt
Top Republicans add opioid money to health care bill, but measure's fate remains in doubt (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - June 29, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
$45 billion added to health care bill for opioid treatment
The additional funds and new language comes as GOP leadership aims for a bill revision by Friday (Source: Health News: CBSNews.com)
Source: Health News: CBSNews.com - June 29, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
How would the Senate's health care bill affect individual market premiums?
Analysis looks at how the BCRA will affect average premiums for a given actuarial value of coverage and a fixed population of individual market enrollees. (Source: HSR Information Central)
Source: HSR Information Central - June 29, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Little progress evident as GOP hunts health bill votes
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is exploring options for salvaging the battered Republican health care bill (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - June 29, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
Effects of Senate Health Care Bill - AARP
6 hours ago ... The Senate bill essentially levies what AARP calls an Age Tax, leading to higher
premiums for older Americans. The pain is twofold: Seniors  ... (Source: AARP.org News)
Source: AARP.org News - June 29, 2017 Category: American Health Source Type: news
The Latest: GOP ponders how best to sell health care
Some Republicans are worried that President Donald Trump's difficulty staying on message might do more harm than good in selling their health care bill. (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - June 28, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
The Latest: McConnell looking to salvage health care plan
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is exploring options for salvaging the battered Republican health care bill (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - June 28, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
Health insurance expansion may be linked to fewer cardiac arrest deaths, OHSU researcher says
Sudden cardiac arrest is responsible for about 350,000 deaths each year, more than any other single disease. Recently, though, an OHSU researcher led a study that found a strong connection between Medicare expansion and a reduction in sudden cardiac arrests among middle aged adults.
Eric Stecker, a cardiology professor at OHSU's Knight Cardiovascular Institute, also said this improvement could be reversed if the Senate health care bill, which the CBO estimates would increase the number of uninsured… (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Biotechnology headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Biotechnology headlines - June 28, 2017 Category: Biotechnology Authors: Clare Duffy Source Type: news
Health insurance expansion may be linked to fewer cardiac arrest deaths, OHSU researcher says
Sudden cardiac arrest is responsible for about 350,000 deaths each year, more than any other single disease. Recently, though, an OHSU researcher led a study that found a strong connection between Medicare expansion and a reduction in sudden cardiac arrests among middle aged adults.
Eric Stecker, a cardiology professor at OHSU's Knight Cardiovascular Institute, also said this improvement could be reversed if the Senate health care bill, which the CBO estimates would increase the number of uninsured… (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines - June 28, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: Clare Duffy Source Type: news
