Government Health Care News

12:33 PM EST
2/10/2012 Report: Air pollution kills thousands in Bangladesh capitalAir pollution in the Bangladesh capital annually kills thousands of urban poor and millions more suffer from respiratory diseases, a burden on the country's inadequate health budget, says a newly-released report.

Source:AHN Topics:Environmental Issue, Environmental Pollution, Air Pollution, Health, Government Health Care, Medicare, Politics, Government, Government Departments

7:40 AM EST
2/2/2012 Good results in program to boost TB detectionA pilot community programme to improve TB detection in northern Tanzania has shown good results and could be replicated nationwide as the country seeks to improve its TB treatment and prevention systems.

Source:IRIN Topics:Health, Disease, Communicable Diseases, Government Health Care

8:08 AM EST
2/1/2012 Good results in program to boost TB detectionA pilot community program to improve TB detection in northern Tanzania has shown good results and could be replicated nationwide as the country seeks to improve its TB treatment and prevention systems.

Source:IRIN Topics:Health, Disease, Communicable Diseases, Government Health Care

11:06 PM EST
1/28/2012 Romney's defense of the 'individual mandate' -- unexpected and persuasiveFor a candidate who keeps vowing to repeal the 2010 federal Affordable Care Act, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney sure can make a convincing argument on its behalf. At least that's how it appeared to a lot of people after Thursday night's Republican presidential candidate debate in Jacksonville, FL.

Source:KaiserHealth Topics:Health, Government Health Care

8:05 AM EST
1/26/2012 Government scraps free health care for allCôte d'Ivoire is abandoning free health care for all after a brief experiment because of skyrocketing costs.

Source:IRIN Topics:Social Issue, People, Children, Health, Government Health Care

7:51 AM EST
1/26/2012 Majority of Americans think ideology will affect high court's ruling on health lawWith the Supreme Court just two months away from hearing a historic legal challenge to the 2010 health law, nearly 60 percent of the public expects the justices to depend more on personal ideology than a legal analysis of the individual mandate, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation's January health tracking poll.

Source:KaiserHealth Topics:Health, Government Health Care, Crime, Law And Justice, Judiciary

8:04 PM EST
1/24/2012 Senate Watchdog Targets High-Prescribing Medicaid DocsAn influential U.S. senator is grilling officials in nearly three-dozen states, demanding to know how they are cracking down on physicians who prescribe massive amounts of potentially dangerous prescription drugs.

Source:ProPublica Topics:Politics, Health, Government Health Care, Medicaid

12:39 PM EST
1/24/2012 Health plans launch own exchanges ahead of public versionsHealth plans are trying to lock in business before government-sponsored health insurance exchanges go online in 2014. Several large insurers are launching private insurance exchanges to protect themselves against competition from the public exchanges.

Source:KaiserHealth Topics:Health, Health Organizations, Government Health Care

11:00 PM EST
1/12/2012 The public option did not dieThe much celebrated, and much maligned, public option may have died in Congress, but it's alive and well in California. Unique in the nation for having public health insurance plans that are run by counties, California has plans that stretch from San Francisco to the Mexican border and cover 2.5 million residents.

Source:KaiserHealth Topics:Health, Government Health Care

2:26 PM EST
1/10/2012 U.S. healthcare spending growth at slowest pace in 50 yearsThe growth of health care spending was near a historic low of 3.9 percent in 2010, according to data released from the National Health and Statistics Group Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The report showed that health care spending was roughly in line with overall economic growth for 2010, and followed a record low of 3.8 percent in 2009.

Source:AHN Topics:Health, Government Health Care