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Wal-Mart Backs Employer Mandate On Insurance
"In a major break with most other large companies, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. Tuesday told the White House that it supports requiring employers to provide health insurance to workers, a centerpiece of President Barack Obama"s effort to provide near-universal coverage to Americans," The Wall Street Journal reports. "Wal-Mart -- which provides insurance to employees and wants to level the playing field with companies that don"t -- on Tuesday delivered a letter to President Obama taking a different stance." The letter was signed by Wal-Mart Chief Executive Mike Duke, as well as Andrew Stern, president of the Service Employees International Union, and John Podesta, "who led President Obama"s transition team and is chief executive of the Center for American Progress, a liberal-leaning think tank." Wal-Mart"s new stance is "a shift from its previous stance on health-care overhaul and follows years of tussles with organized labor." The Journal adds a caveat: Wal-Mart "isn"t changing its policies. The company says it supports the employer mandate because all businesses should share the burden of fixing the health-care system. ... Wal-Mart"s support for a broad mandate also appears to be aimed at beating back an alternative that may be less favorable to the company. The Senate Finance Committee is considering a measure expected to result in a more burdensome health-insurance requirement for companies that have lower-wage workers" (Adamy and Zimmerman, 7/10).
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Income, Education, Important Factors In Heart Disease Risk
Doctors who ignore the socioeconomic status of patients when evaluating their risk for heart disease are missing a crucial element that might result in inadequate treatment, according to a University of Rochester Medical Center study published in the June 2009 American Heart Journal.
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Ongoing Refugee Crisis In Pakistan Overwhelms Health System
The AP/Washington Post examines how the millions of Pakistani refugees fleeing from the army"s offensive against the Taliban in the northwest of the country are overwhelming the country"s health care system. "The crisis has exhausted doctors, used up limited supplies of medicines and buried hospitals in a mountain of red tape as they try to get money and medicine for the crisis" pushing the entire health system to the brink of collapse, the AP/Washington Post writes.
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Today's Opinions And Editorials

A Better Remedy For Health Reform The Dallas Morning News The legislation before us does not reform the outdated and broken payment system the government uses to pay doctors who treat Medicare patients, (and it) ignores medical justice reform (Barton and Burgess, 7/20). How To Pay Doctors The Boston Globe Paying for healthcare on a fee-for-service basis is an inflation engine that, unless something changes, will cause health spending in this state to double by 2020 (7/21). The "Problem With Nurses" Is A Problem With Healthcare The Los Angeles Times The so-called problem with nurses is really just another aspect of the shortcomings in the overall healthcare system (Greenfield, 7/21). A Cancer Patient"s Perspective The Washington Post For me and other Americans suffering from advanced cancer, the health-care debate this summer is no abstraction. It is a matter of life or death (Bacon, 7/21). "Do No Harm" In Healthcare Costs The Christian Science Monitor On this much, President Obama and Congress agree: A healthcare-reform package must not add to the federal deficit (7/20). Throwing More Dollars At A Broken Health Care System The Houston Chronicle (P)olicymakers are fixated on an effort to expand health insurance coverage at the expense of significant long-term problems plaguing the system (Ho, 7/20). Health Debate Shaped By The Generations Roll Call The fundamental question that members of Congress from older generations will need to answer during this summer"s health care debate is just how much they want to accomplish (Winograd and Hais, 7/21). This information was reprinted from kaiserhealthnews.org with kind permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. You can view the entire Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report, search the archives and sign up for email delivery at kaiserhealthnews.org. © Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. All rights reserved.


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