U.S. News & World Report
THURSDAY, Oct. 25 (HealthDay News) -- Two years after it was signed into law, Americans' views on the Affordable Care Act continue to track along party lines, even among those who say they've personally been affected by the controversial health-reform ...
The Health Care Plans of the Candidates
New York Times
"Mitt Romney's health care plan offers 15 guiding principles, but appropriately leaves to Congress the resolution of most details. Obamacare's 2,400 pages were never understood even before passage, push all risk to taxpayers and promise economic disaster. . . ."
Obama vows to protect women's health care rights, subtle reference to Mourdock ...
Washington Post
TAMPA, Fla. — President Barack Obama says voters saw again this week why male politicians shouldn't be making health care decisions for women. Obama's comments were a reference to remarks by Indiana Senate candidate Richard Mourdock.
Preventive mental health care for children falls through the cracks
Boston.com
The current issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry has an excellent article, Integrating Mental Health Care Into Pediatric Primary Care Settings, identifying the causes of this problem. Pediatric training ...
Government's real health-care intrusion
Lebanon Daily News
Opponents of the Affordable Care Act or Obamacare often complain that it represents a big government takeover of health care, though when pressed to explain how they come up short. For a real and truly frightening example of big government intrusion on ...
Insurer Aetna's 3rd-quarter profit rises 2 percent as health care use trend ...
The Republic
Aetna Inc.'s third-quarter earnings rose 2 percent as lower-than-expected health careuse and revenue gains helped the insurer trump Wall Street expectations. The Hartford, Conn., company recorded a $96 million pretax benefit in the third quarter ...
The Republic
Thompson would bring free market health care solutions to Washington
Human Events
Thompson said he has seen Democrats address the question of how to improve the delivery of health care from the days of President Lyndon B. Johnson with Medicare and Medicaid through the president's 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, ...
Human Events
Health Care For All, Except Restaurant Workers?
WBUR
As the only business owner from Massachusetts, where a health care law that closely resembles the president's Affordable Care Act has been in place for the last five years, I shared my experience (and tried to hide my shock). No, we did not reduce ...
US government urges federal judge to deny Hobby Lobby's health care law ...
Washington Post
OKLAHOMA CITY — The federal government is urging a federal judge to deny a Hobby Lobby Stores request to block enforcement of a new health care law that requires employers to cover insurance costs for morning-after pill and the week-after pill. The ...
Seven Factors Driving Up Your Health Care Costs - Kaiser Health ...
By Julie Appleby
There is no one villain in the battle against rising health care costs. Currently, the United States spends more on health care services than any other country, exceeding $2.6 trillion, or about 18 percent of gross domestic product. Most years ...
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Propaganda on the Rise on the Health Care Policy Front « naked ...
By Yves Smith
“Established in 1967, LDI is one of the country's largest health services research centers with more than 200 Senior Fellows studying the organization, delivery, management and financing of health care.” They have their own “Journal of Health Economics”. They recently hired an Ad ... Seeing these groups team up with health insurance companies, which are granted “non-profit” and anti-trust exemptions…Where are all those “non-profits” supposed to go? They can only pay the CEO a ...
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Health Care Reform Brings Major Medicare Changes | North ...
By Rose Hoban
While most of the attention on health care reform has focused on expansion of coverage to the uninsured, tremendous change in the way health care is delivered and paid for is playing out on the Medicare stage. By Gina Upchurch, Executive Director of Durham's Senior PharmAssist. While many provisions of the Affordable Care Act don't go into effect until 2014, many of the Medicare payment and delivery reforms began last year and this month. Gina Upchurch. The political rhetoric...
North Carolina Health News
Religious Employers Strive to Scuttle Health Care Law's ...
By jleaming@acslaw.org
Despite loud grumblings and a raft of lawsuits over the Affordable Care Act's requirement that employers – save for houses of worship and religious orders – must provide free contraceptives in their health care plans for workers, a new poll ...
ACS Blog
The Affordable Care Act's Rulemaking Process
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) seeks to reform the nation's entire health care system through new rules and regulations, some of which have yet to be implemented. According to a series of research papers by Jerry Ellig of the Mercatus Center ...
Daily Policy Digest
Creating Outcome-Driven Health Care Markets – Health Affairs Blog
America's health care market does not work well. It is inefficient, asymmetric, and in most cases not particularly competitive. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) ...
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'The Biggest Loser' contestants contributed to research on weight loss
Bend Bulletin
Researchers analyzed data from 11 participants from the reality show, which follows obese people isolated on a ranch where they begin losing large amounts of weight through exercise and diet. The study, by ... “By including the show's contestants as ...
Study Finds It Is More Difficult To Lose Weight Over Time
RedOrbit
The researchers believe that, over time, the animals' obese state led to a resetting of the “normal” body weight and that point eventually became permanently higher than normal, even if the mice were consistently working to lose weight via diet changes.
How they did it • 'Together' defines their weight loss story
STLtoday.com
Dennis and Debra's story about weight loss is more of a love story than a health story. They say the same ... They knew they needed to lose weight, but the urgency had increased. Somewhere ...He joined her, although he didn't have the problems she had ...
Fad diets: The good, bad and ugly
UNLV The Rebel Yell
Plus, working with a health professional guides participants to lose weight more healthfully and consistently, while having a support group of like-minded individuals to provide long-term motivational support. The Bad Low-Carb, High-Protein Diets work ...
After losing 69 pounds, Kelly Osbourne launches UK TV weight loss competition
Examiner.com
Kelly says she used a combination of sensible diet and intense fitness. She believes so strongly in the benefits of combining working out with dieting that she will take the three winners of her British TV weight loss competition to Hollywood, where ...
Examiner.com
Weight loss: 'Once over 90 kgs, I now weight less than 80'
Rediff
I used to be a fitness freak in my school days -- I had an athletic figure, I ran 100/200 metre races, did weight training in Class Eight...Always ... As a result, I lost myhealth -- I was suffering from high BP, blood sugar and cholesterol. My doctor ...
Rediff
Partial sleep deprivation may trigger obesity
Zee News
Washington: While weight-loss strategies incorporate lifestyle changes focusing ondiet and exercise, a new research has suggested that modifications in an individual's daily routine, including sleep behaviours, can help manage weight. The study found ...
Zee News
Miracle Weight-Loss Product 'Zero Noodles' Put To The Test
Zim Diaspora
Containing just 10 calories, zero sugar and zero fat, the noodles are pitched as a viable alternative to pasta that can greatly help weight loss. Laura Lamont of Glow Nutrition, makers of the revolutionarydiet food, explains: “Replace your usual carbs ...
NIH Study of Intensive Diet, Exercise in Diabetes Stopped Early ...
... while improving weight loss, did not lower risk for cardiovascular events, ... to an intensive dietand exercise regimen or to general diabetes education.
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Diet/Exercise Combo Best, 'Biggest Loser' Study Says - Weight Loss
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