News
National Journal | CDC: Use of Electronic Medical Records Can Help in HIV Prevention
The CDC 2011 National HIV Prevention Conference in Atlanta this week brought together the agency and 40 other HIV/AIDS patient-advocacy organizations to discuss how to reduce HIV incidences and HIV-related health disparities in the country.
Politico | HHS may have to get ‘creative’ on exchange
A quirk in the Affordable Care Act is that while it gives HHS the authority to create a federal exchange for states that don’t set up their own, it doesn’t actually provide any funding to do so.
Washington Times | Health coverage, rates rise in Massachusetts
Five years after Gov. Mitt Romney signed Massachusetts’ groundbreaking health care legislation, it has met its chief goal of extending insurance coverage to most residents — but with costs rising faster than inflation, lawmakers face the challenge of how to pay for it all.
Econ Comments
WSJ | Medicare Reform: Obama vs. Ryan
The GOP plan is more effective but may work better if the spending limits are set the way the president proposed.
AEI | Will Health Care's Long Boom Go Bust?
Whether willingness to pay for health care is personal or mostly outsourced to third parties, more health spending appears to produce more jobs (almost 25 percent of total job growth in the past two decades).
Washington Times | GHEI: Life support for Obamacare
Federal court finds the key provision of the law goes too far.
Reports
National Journal | Study: Smoking Linked to Increased Risk of Bladder Cancer
Reasons for putting out that cigarette are mounting as a new study finds smokers are at a higher risk of bladder cancer than previously thought, according a new report from scientists at the National Cancer Institute.
