Sanders: End HIV/AIDS drug monopolies
For immediate release
May 15, 2012
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Michael Briggs (Sanders)
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Michael Briggs (202) 224-5141
WASHINGTON, May 15 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today called for eliminating legal monopolies that make HIV/AIDS medicine so expensive in the United States that many patients cannot afford treatment and die.
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OPINION: Palin's rhetoric torpedoed Medicare savings
We’ll be hearing a lot from politicians this summer and fall about the urgency of dealing with Medicare spending, which will begin to rise sharply in the coming years as increasing numbers of the country’s 75 million baby boomers turn 65.
If we’re fortunate, some courageous candidates will call for renewed debate on a provision of the health care reform bill that had once enjoyed bipartisan support. The one that spineless Democrats decided had to be yanked when a certain former vice presidential nominee claimed, falsely, that it would create government-run “death panels.”
Friday Briefing
Asbestos litigation booms. Experts say that, half a century after the first lawsuits over illnesses linked to asbestos exposure and 40 years after regulation curtailed use of the insulating and fire-resistant mineral, scads of cases are being filed. Meanwhile, a tabulation of jury verdicts and settlements found that the average award was $6.3 million in 2009, $17.6 million in 2010 and $10.5 million in 2011 — amounts much greater than what lawyers say was the norm more than a decade earlier.
Nurses enter contract negotiations with FAHC
Contact
Mari Cordes, RN, President VFNHP: 989.9267
Devon Ayers, Field Representative, VFNHP: 881.4703
Little Progress Made On Health Disparities, New Report Shows
Health disparities between blacks and whites in categories including maternal deaths and advanced-stage breast cancer diagnoses are worsening, while only a handful of disparities related to race, ethnicity or income showed significant improvement between 2002 and 2008, a new federal report shows.
Nurses begin contract negotiations with Fletcher Allen; patient care is top priority
For immediate release
May 10, 2012
Contact
Mari Cordes, RN, President VFNHP: 989.9267
Devon Ayers, Field Representative, VFNHP: 881.4703
Location: Fletcher Allen Health Care, 111 Colchester Ave, Burlington. Outside of the McClure Lobby Entrance.
Date: May 10, 2012, 3:30 PM
FL Medicaid pay for doctors could soar
Florida doctors who treat Medicaid patients are paid a pittance – less than it costs to cover their overhead. But they will have more incentive to treat the poor as of Jan. 1, assuming the Affordable Care Act is still in force.
Medicaid doctors’ pay could soar
Florida doctors who treat Medicaid patients are paid a pittance – less than it costs to cover their overhead. But they will have more incentive to treat the poor as of Jan. 1, assuming the Affordable Care Act is still in force.
A provision in the health law will raise pay rates for primary care under Medicaid to the same level as Medicare, the federal program for retirees and the disabled.
