Health Care Reform / ACA / Obamacare

24April Southerners Don’t Like Obamacare. They Also Don’t Want to Repeal It. - NYTimes.com

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/04/24/health/health-law-repeal-has-little-support-poll-finds.html?emc=edit_th_20140424&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=25414714&_r=0&referrer=

 


22April14  Looking at Costs and Risks, Many Skip Health Insurance - NYTimes.com

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/04/22/us/looking-at-costs-and-risks-many-skip-health-insurance.html?emc=edit_th_20140422&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=25414714&_r=0&referrer=

http://nyti.ms/1j2Pf6r  Diabetes

Rates of heart attacks, strokes, kidney failure and amputations dropped over the past two decades, federal researchers said.

http://nyti.ms/1iv1ImQ  NYTimes: Cost of Treatment May Influence Doctors

The American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association said they would use cost data to rate the value of treatments.

15Apr14 

Budget Office Lowers Estimate for the Cost of Expanding Health Coverage - NYTimes.com

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/04/15/us/politics/budget-office-lowers-estimate-for-cost-of-expanding-health-coverage.html?referrer=

 Especially for Julie:  The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) is a nonpartisan office.  It provided "an update to projections from February, [which] shows the law costing less than in previous estimates in part because of the broad and persistent slowdown in the growth of health care costs" (italics added)

In New Health Care Era, Blessings and Hurdles - NYTimes.com

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/03/31/us/in-new-health-care-era-blessings-and-hurdles.html?emc=edit_th_20140331&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=25414714&_r=0&referrer=

http://nyti.ms/1mh5hx3

NYTimes: Repercussions and Reprieves at Health Insurance Enrollment Deadline

After Monday, most people must have health coverage or face a penalty, and the confusion of the last six months appears likely to continue.