By Stephanie Stapleton
Today?s early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including reports about a new study that details accelerating health care spending.
NPR: Romney Medicaid Remarks Raise Eyebrows
It?s not so much what Mitt Romney said about whether the government should guarantee people health care in his interview on CBS?s ?60 Minutes? Sunday that has health care policy types buzzing. It?s how that compares to what he has said before (Rovner, 9/25).
The Wall Street Journal?s Washington Wire: Romney Rebuke On Emergency Care Draws Rebuke
Mitt Romney?s comments in a CBS ?60 Minutes? interview Sunday that emergency rooms provide care to people who don?t have insurance drew a rebuke from a group representing emergency-room doctors and a jab from the Obama campaign. But the question and answer weren?t so clear (Radnofsky, 9/24).
The Associated Press: Double-Digit Premium Hikes Seen In 7 of 10 Top Medicare Drug Plans
Seniors enrolled in seven of the 10 most popular Medicare prescription drug plans will be hit with double-digit premium hikes next year if they don?t shop for a better deal, says a private firm that analyzes the highly competitive market. The report Monday by Avalere Health is a reality check on the Obama?s administration?s upbeat pronouncements. Back in August, officials had announced that the average premium for basic prescription drug coverage will stay the same in 2013, at $30 a month (9/25).
The Washington Post: Health Insurance Costs Accelerate
U.S. spending on health insurance grew at an accelerated rate in 2011, breaking a two-year trend of smaller cost increases. The culprit, a new study suggests, is not Americans seeking more treatment but rather rapid growth in the price of medical care. Spending for private health insurance surged by 4.6 percent in 2011, according to a report from the Health Care Cost Institute. That growth rate is faster than the rest of the economy and higher than the previous year, which had 3.8 percent growth (Kliff, 9/25).
Politico: Medicare Advantage Bonuses Boost Plan Quality
The Obama administration will announce later this week that the quality of private Medicare plans is on the rise, thanks to an $8 billion demonstration project that pays them bonuses for good performance. And Republicans say that same project is covering up cuts to the popular program under the federal health care law (Norman, 9/25).
USA Today: Prescription-Drug Use Drops Among Young People
Prescription-drug abuse in the USA declined last year to the lowest rate since 2002 amid federal and state crackdowns on drug-seeking patients and over-prescribing doctors (Leger, 9/25).
This article was reprinted from?kaiserhealthnews.org?with permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. Kaiser Health News, an editorially independent news service, is a program of the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonpartisan health care policy research organization unaffiliated with Kaiser Permanente.
Category: News
Source: http://mylocalhealthguide.com/2012/09/25/todays-health-headlines-sept-25-2012/
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