Medicare Battle Looms as Costs Keep Climbing - WSJ.com

Medicare Battle Looms as Costs Keep Climbing - WSJ.com: "Democratic lawmakers in Congress are girding for a major battle over Medicare next year that could result in substantial changes, including cuts in payments to private insurers that offer Medicare coverage and a new right for the federal government to negotiate drug prices."

How They Would Change Health Care: Obama - washingtonpost.com

How They Would Change Health Care: Obama - washingtonpost.com: "Obama's Approach Emulates Massachusetts's Except for Mandate on Covering All Adults"

How They Would Change Health Care: McCain - washingtonpost.com

How They Would Change Health Care: McCain - washingtonpost.com: "McCain's Proposal for High-Risk Coverage Is Similar to a Program in Minnesota"

Obama outspends in health care ads - Chris Frates - Politico.com

Obama outspends in health care ads - Chris Frates - Politico.com: "Democrat Barack Obama has spent $113 million in health care television advertising so far this year, eight times that of Republican rival John McCain — an investment that polls show are paying big dividends as the election enters its closing weeks."

OPINION - How to Take American Health Care From Worst to First - NYTimes.com

OPINION - How to Take American Health Care From Worst to First - NYTimes.com: "Working closely with doctors, the federal government and the private sector should create a new institute for evidence-based medicine. This institute would conduct new studies and systematically review the existing medical literature to help inform our nation’s over-stretched medical providers. The government should also increase Medicare reimbursements and some liability protections for doctors who follow the recommended clinical best practices."

Medical School Entrants Increase 2% to Record 18,036 in U.S. - Bloomberg.com: News

Medical School Entrants Increase 2% to Record 18,036 in U.S. - Bloomberg.com: News: "Enrollment of entry-level students at U.S. medical schools climbed 1.6 percent to 18,036, the biggest class in history, with the number of Latinos increasing 10 percent."

On Health Plans, the Numbers Fly - NYTimes.com

On Health Plans, the Numbers Fly - NYTimes.com: "As Senators Barack Obama and John McCain battle over how best to control spending and cover the uninsured, they are both filling their speeches, advertisements and debating points with authoritative-sounding statistics about the money they would save and the millions of Americans they would cover."

FDA Is Faulted for Oversight of Foreign Drugs - WSJ.com

FDA Is Faulted for Oversight of Foreign Drugs - WSJ.com: "The Food and Drug Administration is failing to keep accurate data about foreign drug facilities it is supposed to oversee and often doesn't follow up warning letters with inspections, according to a report by the investigative arm of Congress."

Obama Attacks McCain on Health Care and Medicare, in Some Ways Inaccurately - NYTimes.com

Obama Attacks McCain on Health Care and Medicare, in Some Ways Inaccurately - NYTimes.com: "In a coordinated air and ground attack, Senator Barack Obama is charging that his Republican rival for the presidency, Senator John McCain, would make $882 billion in “drastic cuts to Medicare” to pay for his health care proposal."

Prescription for Change - WSJ.com

Prescription for Change - WSJ.com: "The health-care industry is about to undergo a global revolution driven by a force it can no longer resist: information technology."

McCain Presses Obama on Health-Plan Penalties - WSJ.com

McCain Presses Obama on Health-Plan Penalties - WSJ.com: "As the presidential candidates push their competing health-care plans, Sen. John McCain regularly presses Sen. Barack Obama to tell voters how big a fine he would impose on companies that don't offer their workers health insurance."

Health Firms to Study Clots in Stent Patients - WSJ.com

Health Firms to Study Clots in Stent Patients - WSJ.com: "In an unusual display of collaboration, eight medical companies are joining forces to launch a $100 million study to determine how best to protect heart patients from rare but dangerous clots after they are treated with artery-opening devices called stents."

U.S. Drug Industry Debt Seen Rising - WSJ.com

U.S. Drug Industry Debt Seen Rising - WSJ.com: "Moody's Investors Service said U.S. pharmaceutical companies have ample cash, but most of it is held outside the U.S. -- making it costly to access because of the tax consequences."

Doctors May Miss Heart Disease Diagnoses in Women-WSJ Health Blog

Doctors May Miss Heart Disease Diagnoses in Women-WSJ Health Blog: "When a patient is showing signs of stress as well as signs of heart problems such as chest pain and shortness of breath, family physicians and internists are more likely to decide the cause is anxiety if the patient is female, according to data presented at the Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics meeting in Washington over the weekend and reported by Bloomberg."

Business Cool Toward McCain’s Health Coverage Plan - NYTimes.com

Business Cool Toward McCain’s Health Coverage Plan - NYTimes.com: "American business, typically a reliable Republican cheerleader, is decidedly lukewarm about Senator John McCain’s proposal to overhaul the health care system by revamping the tax treatment of health benefits, officials with leading trade groups say."

Obama, McCain Debate Whether Health Care Is a Right or Responsibility-WSJ Health Blog

Obama, McCain Debate Whether Health Care Is a Right or Responsibility-WSJ Health Blog: "Is health care in America a privilege, a right, or a responsibility?”
Tom Brokaw threw that question at John McCain and Barack Obama in the middle of last night’s debate. Their answers went beyond the already-familiar details of each man’s health care plan to suggest an underlying philosophy"

McCain Plans Federal Health Cuts - WSJ.com

McCain Plans Federal Health Cuts - WSJ.com: "John McCain would pay for his health plan with major reductions to Medicare and Medicaid, a top aide said, in a move that independent analysts estimate could result in cuts of $1.3 trillion over 10 years to the government programs."

Obama attacks McCain's healthcare proposal - Los Angeles Times

Obama attacks McCain's healthcare proposal - Los Angeles Times: "As the presidential campaign entered its final month, Democrat Barack Obama issued a sharp assault on Republican John McCain's healthcare proposal Saturday, arguing it would lead to higher taxes for some families and knock as many as 20 million people out of their current insurance plans."

Top Psychiatrist Didn’t Report Drug Makers’ Pay - NYTimes.com

Top Psychiatrist Didn’t Report Drug Makers’ Pay - NYTimes.com: "One of the nation’s most influential psychiatrists earned more than $2.8 million in consulting arrangements with drug makers from 2000 to 2007, failed to report at least $1.2 million of that income to his university and violated federal research rules, according to documents provided to Congressional investigators."

Medtronic's Ties to Spine Doctors Attract Scrutiny - WSJ.com

Medtronic's Ties to Spine Doctors Attract Scrutiny - WSJ.com: "Congressional investigators are probing payments by Medtronic Inc. to spine doctors working as consultants on a widely used bone-graft product, which has been linked to life-threatening complications."

PRO McCain Healthcare Plan Editorial - Wall Street Journal

PRO McCain Healthcare Plan Editorial - Wall Street Journal: "Let's hope Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama understands more about financial markets than he does about health-insurance markets. But the initial evidence isn't promising."

PRO Obama Healthcare Plan Editorial - Daytona Beach News Journal

PRO Obama Healthcare Plan Editorial - Daytona Beach News Journal: "Obama would build on the existing system to make health coverage universal, McCain would end the largest part of the system as we know it -- without aiming for universal care."

Elizabeth Edwards ties health care to economy - Kansas City Star

Elizabeth Edwards ties health care to economy - Kansas City Star: "Elizabeth Edwards tied the nation's lagging economy to its struggling health care system Tuesday as she joined an effort in battleground states to discredit the health care proposals of Republican presidential candidate John McCain."

Medicare Stops Paying to Treat Medical Errors - NYTimes.com

Medicare Stops Paying to Treat Medical Errors - NYTimes.com: "On Wednesday, Medicare will start applying that logic to American medicine on a broad scale when it stops paying hospitals for the added cost of treating patients who are injured in their care."

Financing for Massachusetts Preserves Health Plan - NYTimes.com

Financing for Massachusetts Preserves Health Plan - NYTimes.com: "Massachusetts received the Bush administration’s seal of approval for its universal health care plan on Tuesday when it reached agreement with federal officials on financing a three-year continuation of the landmark experiment."