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1. Share of Cost, Medi-Cal, Also In Global Health News: HIV In Cities; NIH Director’s Role In Global Health; Access To Healthcare In Kenya; Food Aid In Ethiopia; More UNAIDS Calls On Cities To Enhance Response To HIV; China Vows To Step Up Prevention UNAIDS has “issued a call for cities to ‘take the lead in making HIV history’ by enhancing their response to the epidemic,” UN News Centre reports....
2. 2011 Accessible Transportation Coalitions Initiative (ATCI) – Application Deadline January 31, Share of Cost 2011 Accessible Transportation Coalitions Initiative (ATCI) – Application Deadline January 31, Share of Cost...
3. California’s Role In Ensuring That The Potential Of Health Reform Becomes Reality The fifty states will play a critical role in implementing the Affordable Care Act, and California is one of the states at the forefront of reform. The act can provide coverage to millions of currently uninsured Californians and offers important benefits in terms of more-affordable coverage, improved access to services, and better health outcomes. As […]...
4. Share of Cost, WFP Operational Update – Pakistan Floods Emergency As flooding continues to cause displacement, destruction and suffering in Pakistan, WFP is mobilizing all possible resources to ensure those affected receive food assistance as swiftly as possible. – WFP is planning to have reached 2 million people with food by August 20th – communities who are urgently in need of food and accessible to […]...
5. Rearranging the waiting room chairs Monique Garcia of the Chicago Tribune reports that the Illinois Senate voted 58-0 to enact a series of reforms to the state Medicaid system. As the vote indicates, the reforms are hard to argue with. Unfortunately, as I’ve reported, they do very little to resolve the state’s Medicaid financing crisis — a crisis that can […]...
6. Share of Cost, Secretaries of HHS, Labor and Treasury Send Letter Updating Congress on Affordable Care Act Implementation Share of Cost, Secretaries of HHS, Labor and Treasury Send Letter Updating Congress on Affordable Care Act Implementation...
7. President Barack Obama Signs James Zadroga 9/11 Health & Compensation Act President Barack Obama Signs James Zadroga 9/11 Health & Compensation Act...
8. Share of Cost Health Care Reform – What’s Ahead in 2011? Share of Cost Health Care Reform - What's Ahead in 2011?...
9. Recent Releases In Global Health Lancet Examines Health Workers Lost To International Organizations A Lancet Comment discusses how developing country doctors and nurses who are recruited by in-country international organizations, research institutions and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) can “prevent government-trained doctors and nurses from contributing to their [national health service] NHS....
10. Share of Cost, Medi-Cal Share of Cost, Bristol-Myers Squibb And ADAP Crisis Task Force Announce Enhanced, Multi-year Support For AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs) In The United StatesU.S. Increases Pakistan Flood Aid Contribution; Sen. Kerry To Visit Flood-Hit Pakistan “The State Department said Thursday that the U.S. financial commitment to Pakistan flood relief has reached $76 million,” VOA News reports (Gollust, 8/12). “On assistance to Pakistan, to date, approximately $76 million in assistance has been provided … by the U.S....
11. Share of Cost, Reality outPACEs Energy Dept.’s green retrofitting program Maryland homeowners who want federal help to add energy-efficiency improvements are going to have to wait for a while, as Cody Calamaio reports in the Montgomery County, MD Gazette.  The same holds true for would-be green home repair projects around the country. The federal program, called Property-Assessed Clean Energy, or PACE, was introduced as part […]...
12. Nudging small business to provide health care, share of cost Much of the landmark Affordable Care Act won’t kick in until 2014, but one big component starts this year: federal tax credits for small businesses that provide their employees health care.  Mike Colias of Crain’s Chicago Business relays a report by the D.C-based Families USA that 159,900 companies in Illinois are eligible for a federal […]...
13. Dental Health Services, Share of Cost California Dental Plan Review Dental Health Services, Share of Cost California Dental Plan Review...
14. Share of Cost, UnitedHealth Ups Ante On Health IT With Purchase Of Picis, Expecting Stimulus Windfall Share of Cost, UnitedHealth Ups Ante On Health IT With Purchase Of Picis, Expecting Stimulus Windfall — Minneapolis-St. Paul Business Journal: UnitedHealth Group’s technology consulting subsidiary Ingenix, of Eden Prairie, Minn., has purchased Massachusetts tech firm Picis, a maker of emergency room and intensive care software. “Both companies are deeply involved in the area where […]...
15. Share of Cost, Federal Digest Washington Post FDA considers revoking approval of Avastin for advanced breast cancer – Rob Stein reports on agency’s decision after follow up studies on high-cost drug that won fast-track approval show little if any benefit and potentially dangerous side-effects; cancer activists split on decision, which some see as harbinger of cost consideration under new health […]...