Medicare has ordered private insurers to stop sending letters to their Medicare Advantage customers, telling them that proposed health reform legislation could hurt them and jeopardize their benefits. Now those… Read more »
Year: 2009
Sept 24 09 Medicare orders private insurers to stop sending confusing letters to Medicare Advantage customers
Democrats seek cuts in Medicare Advantage
Citing perks, GOP says Obama misled By Lisa Wangsness, Globe Staff | September 24, 2009 More than 10 million seniors enrolled in an enhanced, private version of Medicare known as… Read more »
Nurses Needed for Flu Clinics
This is an unprecedented year for influenza so the call for nurses like you to help stem the potential pandemic is coming from many quarters. Care Dynamix, which also operates… Read more »
Sept 24 2009: CDC’s Focus Group Report on Immunization of Health Care Workers (draft report)
During this week’s Government-Labor coordination call on H1N1, CDC summarized their evaluation of focus group responses of health care workers to immunization against H1N1. Attached is a copy of the… Read more »
Sept 24 09: Studies raise seaonal flu shot fear: seasonal flu shots may increase susceptibility to H1N1
Helen Branswell THE CANADIAN PRESS Unpublished Canadian data are raising concerns about whether it’s a good idea to get a seasonal flu shot this season. Drawn from a series of… Read more »
Sept 23 09 Washington Post “For French, U.S. Health Debate Hard To Imagine: But National Insurance Faces New Challenges”
For French, U.S. Health Debate Hard To Imagine But National Insurance Faces New Challenges By Edward Cody Washington Post Foreign Service Wednesday, September 23, 2009 MARSEILLE, France — When Jean-Louis… Read more »
Sept 23 09 H1N1 DPH Perinatal Advisory Committee Update on Antiviral Guidance for Obstetric Health Care Providers
Highlights
Baucus’s insurance bill is a dose of bad medicine
By Maggie Mahar | September 21, 2009 AFTER MONTHS of work, Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus has come up with a health bill that pleases neither Republicans nor many Democrats,… Read more »
Baucus tweaks health bill to ease costs for most
By Shailagh Murray and Lori Montgomery, Washington Post | September 22, 2009 WASHINGTON – Seeking to lock down votes before today’s meeting of the Senate Finance Committee, chairman Max Baucus… Read more »
Mandatory insurance: Yes, it’s a tax
By Jeff Jacoby, Globe Columnist | September 23, 2009 IT WAS A PERFECTLY straightforward question. The answer was anything but. President Obama vows not to raise taxes on any American… Read more »
