Ruling allows healthcare changes to proceed

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By Kim Geiger – Beginning in 2014, adults with preexisting conditions will be guaranteed coverage and won’t have to pay higher rates than healthier people. Annual dollar limits on essential services will be prohibited.

Also starting in 2014, state-based insurance exchanges will offer people a way to comparison shop for individual health policies that meet minimum government standards. The government will subsidize these purchases for millions of people. Individuals who don’t get insurance would be required to pay a penalty of at least $95 in 2015; the fee increases to at least $695 in 2017. more> http://tinyurl.com/7dgf326

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Merkel Outflanked in Crisis Summit as Hollande Backs Italy-Spain

By James G. Neuger and Helene Fouquet – French President Francois Hollande put French endorsement of a German-inspired deficit-control treaty on hold, and Italy and Spain withheld approval of a 120 billion-euro ($149 billion) growth-boosting package unless Germany authorizes steps to calm their bond markets.

By provoking an open breach with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, the new French leader overturned the austerity-first consensus that has dominated the debt-crisis response and risked fracturing the Berlin-Paris alliance that built the European Union and euro. more> http://tinyurl.com/6lpxfgb

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GOP promises to rid nation of healthcare law

Barack Obama signing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act at the White House
(Photo credit: Wikipedia)

By Ian Swanson – Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) this week reiterated his pledge that the whole law will be repealed by House Republicans if the High Court does not rule the law is unconstitutional. Rep. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) repeated that message in his address.

“Not only is President Obama’s health care law not working – it makes things worse by driving up health care costs, making it harder for small businesses to hire workers,” Cassidy said. “The only way to change this is by repealing ObamaCare entirely. more> http://tinyurl.com/87yryd5

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Risk Management Vs Rescue Management

By Steve Denning – Why is that some hospitals have far higher death rates for the same operations than others?

A large-scale study at the University of Michigan showed that complication rates after surgery were almost the same in all the hospitals. What the top performing hospitals did differently from the poor performers was that they were really good at rescuing people when they had a complication, preventing failure from becoming a catastrophe. more> http://tinyurl.com/7ycc58h

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