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Saturday, November 21, 2009 2:12 AM

Commonwealth Fund

Type: Organization
Name: Commonwealth Fund
First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents (in Politics)
Hard-pressed small firms drop health insurance
Cancellation rates run as high as 50% at Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield as rates continue to rise in the face of the economic downturn.PrintEmail By Barbara BensonEmpire BlueCross BlueShield is reporting a sharp increase in small businesses terminating ... [Crains NY Business - 11/19/2009]
First Reported 7 hours ago - Updated 7 hours ago - 1 Documents (in Medicine)
Suicide Rates Disappointing Marker of Access to MH Services [Professional News]
The newest “report card” began tracking suicide rates as a measure of the availability of mental health care and found a majority of states had worsening rates in recent years.States have improved overall in recent years in both their provision of needed ... [Psychiatric News - 7 hours ago]
First Reported 11/14/2009 - Updated 11/14/2009 - 1 Documents (in Medicine)
International Survey Uncovers Lagging Healthcare Practices
care doctors in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States completed in 2009, Cathy Schoen, from The Commonwealth Fund (New York, USA), and colleagues found wide differences ... [World Health Network - 11/14/2009]
First Reported 11/16/2009 - Updated 11/16/2009 - 1 Documents (in Politics)
Reaction To Cooper's Challenge Against Dartmouth Atlas
Topics: Health Costs, Health DisparitiesKHN Staff WriterBy studying how hospitals treat Medicare patients in their last two years of life, the Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care has found wide geographic differences in how medicine is practiced. The research ... [Kaiser Health News - 11/16/2009]
First Reported 11/18/2009 - Updated 11/18/2009 - 1 Documents (in Health)
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Red State Reality: Unhealthiest Residents, Worst Health Care
Throughout their all-out campaign to stop health care reform, Republican leaders have relied on questionable forecasts from the Lewin Group, a subsidiary of insurer UnitedHealth Group. Now, another study funded by UnitedHealth has some unwelcome news ... [Crooks and Liars - 11/18/2009]
First Reported 11/18/2009 - Updated 11/18/2009 - 1 Documents
P C D C Releases How To Manual To Help Safety Net Providers Qualify As Medical Homes
PCDC has released a new how-to manual that will help safety-net providers become recognized as Patient-Centered Medical Homes (PCMH), which is expected to lead not only to improved patient outcomes, but to future reimbursement enhancements as well.PCMH ... [Prlog - 11/18/2009]
First Reported 11/18/2009 - Updated 11/18/2009 - 1 Documents (in Politics)
Joint Commission, HHS Stress Importance of Healthcare Communication
The Joint Commission and the Department of Health and Human Services last week released a 30-minute series of videos titled . The videos, designed for organizations and healthcare providers, spell out what is required by The Joint Commission and by federal ... [Health Leaders - 11/18/2009]
First Reported 11/05/2009 - Updated 11/06/2009 - 10 Documents (in Medicine)
US Spends More On Health Care, But Quality Falls Short
An international survey of primary care doctors released on Wednesday found that Americans are more likely than people in 10 other countries to have trouble getting medical treatment because of insurance restrictions or cost, Reuters reported.The annual ... [Red Orbit - 11/06/2009]
First Reported 11/05/2009 - Updated 11/05/2009 - 9 Documents (in Politics)
UK Government: UK Tops International List on Healthcare
The NHS has been ranked as having one of the best primary health care systems in the world in a survey by the leading US think tank the Commonwealth Fund, published today.In a survey of more than 10,000 primary care physicians in 11 developed countries, ... [Individual.com - 11/05/2009]
First Reported 11/03/2009 - Updated 11/04/2009 - 4 Documents (in Politics)
Experts favor sweeping changes to Medicare-reforms to help support broader health system reform
Health-care opinion leaders express strong support for allowing HHS to 'fast track' payment pilots and negotiate drug prices; Voice agreement for establishing an independent medicare advisory council with broad authorityA vast majority of leaders in health ... [News-Medical.Net - 11/04/2009]
First Reported 11/06/2009 - Updated 11/07/2009 - 4 Documents (in Medicine)
International study finds U.S. behind in access, quality
If spending alone could provide the best care to patients, the U.S. would be way ahead. Unfortunately, as most readers know, America's access to care and the quality of that care doesn't stack up well against that provided in many other countries with ... [Fierce Healthcare - 11/07/2009]
First Reported 10/23/2009 - Updated 10/24/2009 - 3 Documents (in Politics)
Analysis Of Health Reform Bills Highlights Key Similarities, Differences, Impacts, Costs
A new Commonwealth Fund report analyzes the similarities, differences, potential impacts, and costs of current bills passed by the five committees of jurisdiction in the United States Congress: Finance Committee and Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions ... [Red Orbit - 10/24/2009]

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...This 18-month grant was funded by The Commonwealth Fund and the funding runs through January 2010. "As we've considered how to actually implement what we've learned from that, we realize we have to look at these issues in a broader context and really believe that patient and family-centered care is a little more encompassing and probably better reflects that concept of meeting patient needs as a way to improve quality and safety" Wilson-Stronks says
Joint Commission, HHS Stress Importance of Healthcare Communication [Health Leaders - 11/18/2009]
...Right? No," [Klink says]. Klink was in Washington D C for an annual meeting sponsored by the Commonwealth Fund, which recently "released the results of a survey of doctors from 11 countries that reflected poorly on the United States."
Dutch Health Minister Critiques U.S. Health System [Kaiser Health News - 11/10/2009]
...) 'It's quite an increase,' said Stuart Guterman, assistant vice president at the Commonwealth Fund. "We just keep spending more and more on health care." The cost of a health system encounter also increased. The average cost of a physician office visit increased from $128 to $207...
Health care spending for middle-age Americans booming [American Medical News - 11/09/2009]
"Health insurance premiums, which doubled in the last decade, will nearly double again in the next 10 years, placing an increasing burden on families and employers if costs continue to grow at the current rate, a Commonwealth Fund report predicts."
Christine - Thank you very much. I'd been trying to suggest to my son to... [Blogcritics.org - 11/08/2009]

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Suicide Rates Disappointing Marker of Access to... [Psychiatric News - 7 hours ago]
Data Dampen Enthusiasm for Effectiveness Resear... [Psychiatric News - 7 hours ago]
Speech by Mike O'Brien MP, Minister of State (H... [DoH - 15 hours ago]
Democrats risk taxing the wealthy for healthcare [Los Angeles Times - 17 hours ago]
Hard-pressed small firms drop health insurance [Crains NY Business - 11/19/2009]
New Target Offers Hope for Spinal Cord Injury [Focus - 11/19/2009]
Lack of Insurance Leads to Higher Medicare Bills [Focus - 11/19/2009]
CompPASS Sets a Direction for Proteomics [Focus - 11/19/2009]
Small Businesses Scaling Back Insurance Plans [Moneynews - 11/18/2009]
Joint Commission, HHS Stress Importance of Heal... [Health Leaders - 11/18/2009]
Small firms scrapping, scaling back health plans [Washington Post - 11/18/2009]
P C D C Releases How To Manual To Help Safety N... [Prlog - 11/18/2009]
More Canadian docs use EMR, but lag other nations [Canadian Healthcare Technology - 11/16/2009]
Reaction To Cooper's Challenge Against Dartmout... [Kaiser Health News - 11/16/2009]
International Survey Uncovers Lagging Healthcar... [World Health Network - 11/14/2009]
Op-Ed: Numbers, not shouting, overwhelm health ... [Yahoo! News - 11/14/2009]
Study reveals why certain drug combinations bac... [EurekAlert! - 11/13/2009]
Pre-existing conditions put insurance coverage ... [Tennessean - 11/13/2009]
Fridayfacts 13 November 2009 [RACGP - 11/13/2009]
Prime Minister’s Press conference [10 Downing Street - 11/10/2009]
Dutch Health Minister Critiques U.S. Health System [Kaiser Health News - 11/10/2009]
UK primary care fares well in Commonwealth Fund... [PJ Online - 11/10/2009]
Health Council of Canada bulletin on 'Sicker' C... [Canadian Business Magazine - 11/10/2009]
UK GPs have highest hopes [British Medical Association - 11/10/2009]
Don’t deny healthcare to children of parents i... [The Hill - 11/10/2009]
Commonwealth Fund: U.S. health IT lags behind o... [HealthImaging - 11/09/2009]
Profits over reform? [Louisville Courier-Journal - 11/09/2009]
US think thank ranks NHS highly in primary care [Pharmafocus - 11/09/2009]
Health care spending for middle-age Americans b... [American Medical News - 11/09/2009]
Christine - Thank you very much. I'd been tryin... [Blogcritics.org - 11/08/2009]
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Red State Reality: Unhealthiest Residents, Wors... [Crooks and Liars - 11/18/2009]
Throughout their all-out campaign to stop health care reform, Republican leaders have relied on questionable forecasts from the Lewin Group, a subsidiary of insurer ...
CNN Finally Discovers the Red State Health Care... [Crooks and Liars - 11/11/2009]
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Gingrich and Perry Tout Texas Health Care Mess [Crooks and Liars - 11/08/2009]
Everything, they say, is bigger in the Texas. So it is with the failure of the health care system. Leading the nation with a jaw-dropping 25% of its residents ...
Lack of Adequate Risk Adjustment Could be Healt... [Firedoglake - 11/02/2009]
(photo by Tasoskessaris) The Dutch government, who have a history of “managed competition” among for-profit health insurance companies, called the lack of well-designed ...
For Red States, Opting Out is Not An Option [Crooks and Liars - 10/27/2009]
While the Obama White House, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Congressional Democrats debate among themselves whether the so-called "opt out" public health ...
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House Health Care Victory: An Online Guide [Slate Magazine - 11/08/2009]
The House Vote: An Online Guide [Slate Magazine - 11/08/2009]
An online guide to following today's floor acti... [Slate Magazine - 11/07/2009]
Sara Collins, Ph.D., Testifies On The Problem o... [Nancy Pelosi - YouTube - 10/16/2009]
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