House Democrats Prepare to Unveil Health Bill
from The Associated Press, Oct. 29, 2009
 House Democrats have all but finalized a sweeping health care bill that would reshape the medical system, requiring nearly everyone to purchase coverage and creating a new government insurance plan for the middle class. Lawmakers and congressional aides said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was making plans to unveil that chamber's bill on Thursday morning, contingent on the outcome of a meeting Wednesday among House leaders.
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Flu Fighters Announcement from TMA
from Connect Amarillo, Oct. 22, 2009
Texas Medical Association (TMA) "Flu Fighter" physician leaders have a message for patients, especially women who are pregnant: Get your H1N1 shot as soon as possible - the vaccine is safe and can protect you from getting sick. "The risk of getting the flu is far worse than the potential side effects of the vaccine," says Donald Murphey, MD, a member of the TMA Flu Fighters.
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Insurers Not Improving Nation's Health Care
from CNN Money, Oct. 22, 2009
The quality of health care for millions of Americans insured through commercial or public plans has stopped improving for the first time in more than a decade, according to an industry accreditation group's report. The across-the-board trend in care quality provided to people with private coverage as well as in Medicare and Medicaid was virtually stagnant in 2008, according to the 13th annual "State of Health Care Quality" report from the National Committee for Quality Assurance.
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Texas Dr. Antonio Falcon: We're Facing A Catastrophic Situation On The Border
from Kaiser Health News, Oct. 23, 2009
Dr. Antonio Falcon, a member of the Texas Medical Association and the United States-Mexico Border Health Commission, is concerned about several health threats facing border communities, including tuberculosis, diabetes, obesity and the H1N1 virus that causes swine flu. He says the current efforts to overhaul the nation's health system will benefit both the Hispanic community, which has the highest rate of uninsured of any ethnic group; and Texas, which consistently fares among the worst for state health care measures.
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The Influence Game: Doctors' Lobby in a Tricky Spot
from The Associated Press, Oct. 28, 2009
Does the AMA matter in the health care debate? Congress is beginning to have its doubts, despite the medical association's deep pockets and platoons of lobbyists. It's lost its principles, some lawmakers and physicians say. Perhaps more damaging: It can't produce votes. After a humiliating defeat in the Senate, the venerable American Medical Association faces a revolt from both its member doctors and one-time political allies as it struggles to influence an overhaul of the nation's health system.
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WellPoint Attacks Health Legislation
from The Wall Street Journal, Oct. 22, 2009
WellPoint Inc., the nation's largest health insurer by members, is striking out against proposed health-overhaul legislation with new data it presented to members of Congress. The insurer's conclusions, building on a study the insurance lobby put out last week, purport to show state by state how proposed changes to the nation's health-care system would drive up premiums for some individuals and small businesses.
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Public Option Push in Senate Comes with Escape Hatch
from The New York Times, Oct. 26, 2009
The Senate majority leader, Harry Reid, sided with his party’s liberals on Monday and announced that he would include a government-run insurance plan in health care legislation that he plans to take to the Senate floor within a few weeks. His proposal came with an escape hatch: A state could refuse to participate in the public insurance plan by adopting a law to opt out.
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'Risks' to Rice, Baylor Merger
from The Houston Chronicle, Oct. 26, 2009
A merger of Rice University and Baylor College of Medicine would create one of the most unbalanced academic institutions in the nation, according to an interim report by a Rice faculty committee. The report notes that Baylor's operating budget is almost three times the size of that of Rice and says the attachment of a very small university to a large medical school could impact Rice's academic mission, culture and finances.
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Seniors Squeezed as Doctors Shun Medicare
from CNN Money, Oct. 27, 2009
Medicare has become a scary word to the doctors at the largest private group practice in Kansas City, Mo. It's so scary that most physicians at Kansas City Internal Medicine, with 65 percent of its nearly 70,000 active patients age 65 or older, have stopped accepting walk-in Medicare enrollees, said Dr. David Wilt, an internist at the group. Wilt and his colleagues say they are shunning the area's growing senior population because they believe Medicare doesn't reimburse physicians enough to cover the cost of care.
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Health Officials Expect Long Lines for H1N1 Vaccinations
from The Dallas Morning News, Oct. 28, 2009
With supplies of the swine flu vaccine likely to remain relatively scarce for at least the next few weeks, the Dallas and Tarrant county health departments were both asking the same question about their first vaccination clinics: How many will come?
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Health Care Practitioners: Overlooked as 'Second Victims' of Adverse Patient Events
from The Houston Chronicle Dead By Mistake Blog, Oct. 26, 2009
Medical errors have a lasting, unknowably profound impact on patients and their loved ones. Researchers at the University of Missouri Health System have pointed out, however, that health care providers are often forgotten, collateral sufferers in medical errors' harrowing aftermaths.
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Opinion: Don't Gut the Medical Board
from The East Texas Review, Oct. 28, 2009
In 2003, the Medical Profession made a promise to Texans: if Texas voters would pass a constitutional amendment limiting non-economic damages in medical malpractice lawsuits, the state would do a better job policing the medical profession, suspending or revoking the licenses of doctors who mistreat patients. During that session and every session thereafter, various and sundry special interest groups have engaged in an organized - but so far largely unsuccessful - effort to slash this board's powers over physicians.
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Those Waiting Question H1N1 Vaccine Distributions
from CBS 11, Oct. 27, 2009
Tuesday officials from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) said people will soon have an easier time getting the H1N1 vaccine. But for those who have been waiting - those are just words. People are getting frustrated and they want to know who is making the decision about shipments and distribution.
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Would Red States be More Likely to Opt Out?
from The New York Times Prescriptions Blog, Oct. 26, 2009
Harry Reid's announcement on Monday that the Senate's health care legislation is likely to contain a government-run public insurance plan - but one that would give each state the option of opting out - immediately raises the question of which states might be most likely to reject a public insurance plan.
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Physicians' Foundation releases updated EHR guide
from Modern Healthcare, Oct. 27, 2009
The Physicians' Foundation in cooperation with the Texas Medical Association has released an updated version of its physician's guide to the installation of electronic health-record systems. The 105-page guide, Electronic Medical Record: The Link to a Better Future, 2nd Edition, includes an extensive updated section backgrounding newbie physicians on the benefits of EHR systems and pending EHR subsidy programs under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
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