Health Care Reform
Secretary Sebelius Statement on New Breast Cancer Recommendations
HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius issued the following statement today on new breast cancer screening recommendations from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force:
“There is no question that the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Recommendations have caused a great deal of confusion and worry among women and their families across this country. I want to address that [...]
Retail Clinics Changing the Face of Routine Medical Care
Retail medical clinics provide routine care of similar quality and at lower cost than that offered in doctors’ offices, urgent care centers or hospital emergency rooms, according to new RAND Corporation studies.Retail medical clinics are walk-up medical providers, typically located in drug stores and other retail chain stores such as Target and Wal-Mart rather than [...]
CDC to Distribute $40 Million in Recovery Act Funding to Help States Fight Healthcare-Associated Infections
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention today announced plans to distribute $40 million to state health departments to help prevent healthcare-associated infections (HAIs). Funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the money will be distributed through cooperative agreements to 49 states, Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico to maximize prevention [...]
Overdiagnosis of Prostate Cancer Widespread, Study Finds
Over the last 20 years, the number of men who have been diagnosed with prostate cancer has increased, due in large part to widespread screening using the prostate-specific antigen PSA blood test. A new study published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute shows many of those men – more than a million, by [...]
Health Reform Proposals Have Potential to Help More Than 13 Million Uninsured Young Adults Gain Coverage
Comprehensive health reform proposals now before Congress could help the more than 13 million uninsured young adults ages 19-29 gain coverage, and such reforms would also help ensure that those who now have coverage would not lose it, according to a new Commonwealth Fund report. Extending health insurance coverage to all Americans through expansions in [...]
Physicians for a National Health Program
Single-payer national health insurance is a system in which a single public or quasi-public agency organizes health financing, but delivery of care remains largely private. Despite spending more than twice as much as the rest of the industrialized nations ($7,129 per capita), the United States performs poorly in comparison on major health indicators such as [...]
