CMA Press Clips
Daily reports on health care policy and medicine from newspapers and magazines throughout California and around the nation.
Mother knows best, join together in pediatric care
Orange County Register - 8/17/10 - Doctors Jennifer Stahl and Suzy McNulty started their pediatrics center three years ago with the hope of changing the way pediatrics was practiced.
States get funds to boost oversight of health insurance premiums
Los Angeles Times - 8/17/10 - The Obama administration is sending $1-million grants to state insurance regulators to help increase oversight of rising health insurance premiums, a key step in implementing the new healthcare law.
Number of whooping cough cases up to 227
Bakersfield Californian - 8/17/10 - An additional 17 cases of whooping cough were reported last week in Kern County, bringing the total to 227 for the year, according to the Kern County Department of Public Health.
Group says cancer is No. 1 'economic killer'
San Francisco Chronicle - 8/17/10 - Cancer is the world's top "economic killer" as well as its likely leading cause of death, the American Cancer Society contends in a new report it will present at a global cancer conference in China this week.
Report: 80 Percent of State's Small Businesses Can Get Health Coverage Credit
San Luis Obispo Tribune - 8/17/10 - A report released last month shows that 456,500 California small businesses with fewer than 25 employees — including hundreds on the Central Coast — will be eligible for tax credits this year to help pay for health insurance coverage for their employees, according to Rep. Lois Capps, D-Santa Barbara.
Economy Led to Cuts in Use of Health Care
New York Times - 8/17/10 - The economic crisis in the United States has reduced the use of routine medical care, and the cutbacks here are much deeper than in countries with universal health care systems, researchers say in a new report.
In Home Support Service employees offer to pay more into health care, pension in bid to keep jobs
San Jose Mercury News - 8/17/10 - San Mateo County employees who provide in-home care to residents with limited mobility and other significant health problems rallied Monday to pressure the county to maintain current staffing levels despite a major funding cut proposed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.
HP wins $200M Medicare contract
Sacramento Business Journal - 8/17/10 - The enterprise services unit of Hewlett-Packard Co. said on Monday it has won a contract worth up to $200 million by the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to provide services to help improve Medicare Part B claims processing.
Opinion: Opposing view on insurance mandate: Breathing is not commerce
USA Today - 8/17/10 - As if Democrats' new health care law — with its tax hikes, higher costs, and Medicare cuts to establish a new federal entitlement and massive new bureaucracies — isn't already intrusive enough, at its heart lies an individual mandate that forces Americans to buy government-approved health insurance or pay a tax.
