Children’s Health Fund
(source: CHF)
When children lack adequate health care, their problems compound. Disadvantaged children are more frequently affected by asthma. They are more likely to be overweight and at risk for type 2 diabetes. Hearing loss is less likely to be detected early, contributing to learning problems. Medically underserved children are less likely to have the specialist care they need.
Relevant now more than ever, Children’s Health Fund (CHF)’s Special Health Initiatives targeting underserved, at-risk infants, children and youth are being defined in measurable and pragmatic ways, allowing busy practitioners to do their clinical work while simultaneously providing them with the tools that will help them accurately measure their successes and self-evaluate their work on an on-going basis. Specifically, the role of the interdisciplinary team in delivering cost-effective care in an enhanced medical home model that focuses on true integration and access to needed sub-specialty care and community services needs to be measured, described and disseminated.
How Private Insurance Works
(source: Kaiser Family Foundation)
This issue brief explains the role and operations of private health coverage in the United States. Private health coverage is provided under a variety of different arrangements, including health insuring organizations regulated under state law and health plans sponsored by employers and employee organizations that operate under the federal Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA).
The primer discusses the fundamental aims of private health coverage and sorts out the complicated web of state and federal regulations that govern it.
Original Article
(source: Tennessean)
For fortune-tellers, gazing into tea leaves reveals the future. For tea-drinkers, the leaves of certain teas may be harbingers of a healthier future. Aside from herbal or fruit-infused teas, most teas come from the leaves of the same tea bush, Camellia sinensis. The benefit of each kind of tea from the Camellia sinensis depends upon when and where the leaves are harvested and how their properties are brewed or extracted. To get to the truth about tea, we need to gaze into the leaves a bit, too.
Kaiser Family Foundation Report
(source: Kaiser Family Foundation)
his report by the Kaiser Family Foundation and the American Cancer Society profiles six cancer patients and survivors and the challenges they face to help gauge how the recession and rising unemployment is affecting workers who are most in need of ongoing medical care.
The report, “Patients Under Pressure: Profiles of How Families Affected by Cancer are Faring in the Recession,” illustrates the kinds of problems such patients face in a recession, including obstacles to continuing coverage through COBRA; difficulty in finding an insurer who will sell them non-group coverage; the limited availability of public coverage; and the medical debt that patients can incur and the delays in care they often suffer if they become uninsured even for short periods of time.
It is a follow up to “Spending to Survive: Cancer Patients Confront Holes in the Health Insurance System,” a joint report released by the Foundation and the American Cancer Society in February.
Health Care Blog Post
(source: THCB)
What do people really think about health care reform? When political issues are difficult and complicated, published polls sometimes confuse rather than enlighten the debate. And health care reform is fiendishly complicated, with many different issues and many different proposals for addressing them. No wonder that the debate is generating more heat than light. This is surely one of the times when political leaders should lead rather than follow public opinion. As Winston Churchill once said, “The problem with politicians who keep their ear too close to the ground is that it is difficult to look up to them in that ungainly posture.”
