CMA Press Clips
Daily reports on health care policy and medicine from newspapers and magazines throughout California and around the nation.
Public sector workers paying more of their health care costs
Sacramento Bee - 7/15/10 - Workers in private industry have felt the sting of rising health insurance premiums and out-of-pocket costs for decades. Now, as government budgets bleed, public employees are starting to share the pain.
Healthcare law offers preventive care at no cost
Los Angeles Times – 7/15/10 – Clarifying a much-anticipated benefit in the healthcare law, the Obama administration on Wednesday issued rules outlining how millions of consumers will soon be able to get many preventive medical services at no out-of-pocket cost.
Riverside County to spend $2.35 million for health clinic
Palm Springs Desert Sun – 7/15/10 – Riverside County officials have agreed to spend up to $2.35 million to acquire land and help build a medical clinic in Indio for the uninsured.
Health lobbyists focus on a once-obscure group
Washington Post - 7/15/10 - For years, an obscure federal task force sifted through medical literature on colonoscopies, prostate-cancer screening and fluoride treatments, ferreting out the best evidence for doctors to use in caring for their patients. But now its recommendations have financial implications, raising the stakes for patients, doctors and others in the health-care industry.
Folsom agent barred from selling Medicare Advantage
Sacramento Business Journal - 7/15/10 - A Folsom health insurance agent has been barred indefinitely from selling Medicare Advantage plans after regulators alleged that she used deceptive, misleading and aggressive sales tactics against 11 seniors.
New health care law raises questions on abortions
USA Today - 7/15/10 - Abortion opponents are warning that abortions will be covered in some new government health care programs for people who have been denied insurance because of pre-existing conditions, despite an order signed by President Obama forbidding the use of federal money for the procedure.
Diabetics Eye Obesity Surgery
Monterey County Herald - 7/15/10 - For nearly a decade, Cristina Iaboni tried to tame her diabetes the usual way, through daily shots of insulin and other medicine.
FDA panel says Avandia should stay, but with restrictions
Los Angeles Times – 7/15/10 – Faced with conflicting and less-than-conclusive scientific evidence, a Food and Drug Administration advisory panel recommended Wednesday that the controversial diabetes drug Avandia remain on the market — but with tighter supervision and increased warnings about the danger of heart attacks.
