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Few customers collecting from health-care settlement
Capitol Weekly - 3/11/10 - More than a year after a settlement was reached between state lawmakers and health plans over restitution for 6,000 health insurance customers who had their policies improperly cancelled, only 170 people have recouped costs from the companies that terminated their coverage.
In St. Louis area, Obama pounds drum for health-care initiative
Washington Post - 3/11/10 - President Obama made an impassioned case Wednesday for his health-care proposal, delivering a folksy, partisan argument for reform as industry groups prepare a multimillion-dollar advertising campaign to defeat it.
New, Cheaper Health Plans Aim To Avert Costly Procedures
Kaiser Health News - 3/11/10 - Workers at a Portland, Ore., steel mill soon will be able to pick a new type of insurance that offers free care for some illnesses, such as diabetes or depression, but requires hefty extra fees for treatments deemed overused, including knee replacements, hysterectomies and heart bypass surgery.
Obama touts plan to cut waste in Medicare, Medicaid
Los Angeles Times - 3/11/10 - Promoting a new initiative to reduce waste in Medicare, Medicaid and other government programs, President Obama traveled to suburban St. Louis on Wednesday to keep up momentum behind his push to complete work on a health overhaul this month.
Obama Campaigns For Heath Overhaul In Missouri
NPR - 3/11/10 - President Obama says the time for talk is over and that Congress needs to take an up-or-down vote on the health care overhaul plan. He traveled to St. Charles, Mo., to sell his plan Wednesday. It was his second trip outside of Washington this week to try to win congressional support for the plan. He also helped raise some cash for Democrats made vulnerable by the long legislative fight.
Surgical-Device Firms Walk Fine Line
Wall Street Journal - 3/11/10 - Some 25,000 people last year underwent an operation in which tiny bits of heart tissue were burned into a maze pattern to reroute the heart's electrical system. This is done to fix the most common type of faulty heartbeat, atrial fibrillation.
