CMA Press Clips
Daily reports on health care policy and medicine from newspapers and magazines throughout California and around the nation.
Intel, GE team up for health care venture in Sacramento area
Sacramento Bee - 8/3/10 - Intel and General Electric Co. announced Monday that they were teaming up to launch a new company - headquartered in the Sacramento area - that would expand their partnership in the health care arena.
Why physicians hate to admit their errors, even to themselves
Washington Post - 8/3/10 - Precisely two weeks after completing my medical internship, I proceeded to nearly kill a patient. July marked the start of my second year of residency at New York City's Bellevue Hospital, and it was my first time being fully in charge of a patient.
Getting the doctor you want may depend on your gender, race, creed
USA Today - 8/3/10 - Emergency room patients who ask to be seen by a physician of their same gender, race or religious background are not always treated equally, U.S. researchers find. The request is most often granted when the patient is a woman, a racial minority, or a Muslim, a new study finds.
Editorial: Sutter's plan
Santa Rosa Press Democrat - 8/3/10 - In 2007, Sutter Health announced plans to close its Sonoma County hospital. On Tuesday, however, the Board of Supervisors will hold the first of two scheduled hearings on a proposed $284 million, 82-bed hospital adjacent to the Wells Fargo Center for the Arts in Santa Rosa. First among them is whether Sutter can provide adequate care for low-income residents at the new hospital.
State has right to challenge healthcare law, judge rules
Los Angeles Times - 8/3/10 - The Obama administration lost an early legal skirmish over the new healthcare law Monday when a federal judge declined to dismiss Virginia's lawsuit challenging a key part of the landmark legislation.
Covering New Ground in Health System Shift
New York Times - 8/3/10 - In late March, after passage of the landmark health care legislation, the Obama administration sent a sternly worded notice to insurance companies, saying they must cover children, regardless of any pre-existing conditions. Insurers acceded to the demand, and the White House declared victory. But it came at a price. Four months later some insurers said they would stop writing new coverage for children in the individual insurance market. If parents could buy "child only" policies at any time for any reason, they might wait until their children got sick, insurers said.
Health Care's Slim Political Payoff
Wall Street Journal - 8/3/10 - What if the Democrats hadn't done health care? It's a hypothetical question, to be sure, but in many ways the most intriguing one to ponder at the outset of the August congressional recess in a tough political year for Democrats.
Voters trust drugs made in USA, but few are
USA Today - 8/3/10 - More than three out of four voters are confident that prescription drugs made in the USA are free from contamination, while fewer than one in 10 feel confident about medications made in India or China, according to a poll released today by the Pew Charitable Trust's Prescription Project.
High cholesterol carries a lifetime threat
San Francisco Chronicle - 8/3/10 - Take note, kids. What you do to your body today really could hurt you a few decades from now. A new study that followed more than 3,000 young adults into middle age found that people who had high cholesterol in their 20s were much more likely to show early signs of atherosclerosis in their 40s than those who had "optimal" cholesterol levels.
