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Washington’s Apple Health for Kids Earns $17M Federal Achievement Bonus

Posted in Advocacy, Children's Health, Economics of Health Care, Ethics, Health Care Reform, Health Disparities, Health Insurance, Recession, State of Washington on 9 January 2012 | Leave a Comment »

With almost nothing but a steady stream of dire news about public services in 2011 , and  the prospect of even more budget cuts facing us as the Washington State Legislature convenes work today, it is heartening to hear some good news. For the third year in a row, Washington has earned bonuses for enrolling [...]

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Headline Scan

Posted in Access to Medicines, Advocacy, Assistance, Children's Health, Economics of Health Care, Environmental Health, Ethics, Global Health, Health Care Marketing, Health Disparities, Health Insurance, Health Literacy, Healthcare Inequalities, Language Access, Recession, State of Washington, Workers' rights on 18 May 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Can We Afford Personalized Medicine? Special treatment for ‘high profile’ patients; exasperation for the rest of us Health Insurers Making Record Profits as Many Postpone Care People Who Donate Organs For Transplants Can Have Difficulty Getting Insurance Foundations, Conflicts Of Interest And Drugmakers Mission Crash: The Intolerable Policy Incoherence in US AIDS Policy, Global and [...]

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Poor Journalism Fans Flames of Hate in the Evergreen State

Posted in Advocacy, Discrimination, DSHS budget, Economics of Health Care, Ethics, Health Disparities, Health Insurance, Healthcare Inequalities, Language Access, Lobbying, Recession, Responsible journalism, State of Washington on 4 February 2011 | Leave a Comment »

A front-page article published on February 1 by  The Seattle Times, now the Emerald City’s  sole remaining daily newspaper, purporting to describe new state demographic trends, is causing outrage at a very critical time. At this very moment  the draconian cuts proposed by the Governor to balance the budget, are the subject of  contention in [...]

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Lumps of Coal for Local Health, Buzz and Bucks for Biotech and Global Health

Posted in Access to Medicines, Assistance, DSHS budget, Economics of Health Care, Ethics, Global Health, Health Disparities, Healthcare Inequalities, Language Access, Lobbying, Recession, State of Washington on 3 January 2011 | Leave a Comment »

The end of the year with its annual holidays found many  of us here in Washington State feeling anything but in a festive mood, given the imminent decimation of core health and human services, as part of  the Governor’s proposal for balancing of the state’s  budget in the new year and for the biennium.  On [...]

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Cancer Patients Relapse Because Drugs are Unaffordable But Nothing Can Be Done About It?

Posted in Access to Medicines, Assistance, Consumer Protection, Economics of Health Care, Health Care Marketing, Health Care Reform, Healthcare Inequalities, Lobbying, Recession on 9 August 2010 | Leave a Comment »

That might be the conclusion drawn by readers of a recent article in Bloomberg Businessweek. Recession Causing Cancer Patients to Quit Life-Extending Drugs which was the August 4 feature in  the Executive Health column. This news story earned billing as  the Outrage of the Week in  NLARx News from the National Legislative Association on Prescription [...]

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Why is Balance Billing OK in Washington State?

Posted in Access to Medicines, AMA, Consumer Protection, Economics of Health Care, Ethics, Health Care Marketing, Health Care Reform, Health Insurance, Lobbying, Recession, State of Washington on 4 May 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Little-known issues considered by Washington Legislature become or remain Law: Who Benefits? Part 2 Another piece of 2010 legislation that is destined to affect the  pocketbooks of consumers was a measure backed by the Washington State Medical Association to allow doctors to engage in “balance billing. ” This practice now banned in 47 states for [...]

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In Washington State,Tax Breaks for the Few

Posted in Access to Medicines, Economics of Health Care, Ethics, Health Care Reform, Health Insurance, Lobbying, Recession, State of Washington on 4 May 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Little-known measures passed by Washington Legislature now Law: Who Benefits? Part 1 The 2010 Washington State Legislature adjourned on April 12, after the special session called by the Governor to work on budgetary issues still pending at the end of this year’s regular short session. The arduous session focused primarily on filling the gaps created [...]

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