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Face 2 Face - NDR on Medical Health Care
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MADISON Health care advocates called into question information released Tuesday by Gov. Scott Walkers administration showing dramatic rate increases for insurance plans to be sold through the new marketplace created under the federal health care law.

The marketplaces, or exchanges, will be open for enrollment starting Oct. 1 with coverage beginning Jan. 1. They will offer small businesses, individuals and families a choice of private health plans, similar to what workers at major companies get, with subsidies for low-income consumers.

About 500,000 people in Wisconsin are expected to be shopping for coverage through the exchange, including about 92,000 currently on Medicaid who will be losing their coverage starting in January and 400,000 who have no insurance.

A month ago Walkers Office of the Commissioner of Insurance announced that 13 insurance companies would be offering plans to individuals through the exchange, but did not provide any details about rates or coverage areas.

On Tuesday, the insurance commissioner released an analysis showing what it said was the difference between what individual coverage will cost for a plan with a $2,000 deductible and prescription drug coverage currently and through the exchange. It did not examine costs in the group market.

The analysis looked at rates for individuals aged 21, 40 and 63 in nine Wisconsin cities. Rates would increase in all 24 of its scenarios, ranging from 9.7 percent for a 63-year-old in Kenosha to nearly 125 percent for a 21-year-old in Madison.

However, the analysis didnt take into account federal subsidies, which are expected to lower costs as much as 77 percent, or show the difference in benefits or co-pays.

I think theyve done nothing but confuse and mislead the public rather than give them serious information, said Robert Kraig, director of the health care advocacy group Citizen Action Wisconsin. These look cooked and theyre even hard to analyze because of the way they were released.

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Jon Peacock, research director of the Wisconsin Council on Children and Families, said not enough information was released to be of use to people who may be shopping for coverage through the exchange.

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Syria and health care were at the forefront of peoples minds Tuesday when Rep. Tom Latham, R-Iowa, visited Creston Tuesday. The meeting, held at Crest Ridge Estates, allowed Lathams constituents to ask questions of their congressman.

Syria

In August, the Syrian government was suspected of using chemical weapons against its people. This came after the country had been at civil war for two and a-half years, when in 2011 the Syrian people began protesting President Bashar al-Assad and his government.

With regard to Syria, Im surprised that the administration has not moved toward the international bodies and, if this person is in fact using lethal gas on his own people, I would think that we would pursue a war crimes avenue to go after this person and bring the world into it. But, lobbing missiles into Syria, I dont think thats the way to go, said Joe Owens of Creston.

Several other people also said the American government should stay out of the Middle Eastern country.

President Barack Obama has shown interest in taking action against the Syrian government. However, he has left the decision to Congress, as is stated in the Constitution.

With this indecisiveness that were seeing today, its giving Assad plenty of time to move his assets, said Latham. Thats the thing that has not been explained. What is the end result? What does this accomplish? Are we then isolating ourselves if the rest of the world is not with us?

Congress will go back into session Monday, during which time a vote will occur concerning what the U.S. government should do.

Health care

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare or the Affordable Care Act, was signed into law in 2010. The act focuses on increasing the number of insured Americans, lower costs and increase quality of health care.

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As there seems to be no end in sight for health care arguments, let's start with some Georgia health care facts.

One, reported by Georgia Health News last week, is that the state's enrollment in Medicaid and PeachCare is now a record 1.8 million Georgians. And whether the state ultimately expands Medicaid funding or not, another 65,000 are expected to enroll during this fiscal year.

That means not quite one-fifth of Georgia's population is in need of some kind of medical treatment or health insurance assistance. By comparison, Georgia Medicaid administrator Jerry Dubberly told a state legislative panel, that figure was slightly above 11.5 percent in 2000. Medicaid and PeachCare spending is now 15.57 percent of the state budget, Dubberly reported, as compared to 10.2 percent in FY 2000. And Georgia pays less per capita for Medicaid than any other state except California.

It could hardly be a secret that Georgia is a poor state, or that the economic woes of the last five years have been especially severe for the working poor. (PeachCare is not welfare, but a health insurance program for "notch" children of families who don't qualify for public assistance and don't earn enough for private insurance.) But this swelling of the rolls is cause for alarm -- and for responsible action. Such action is the prime directive of the Joint Study Committee on Medicaid Reform, a panel created by the General Assembly and Gov. Nathan Deal.

That this issue is inextricable from politics is an obvious and unfortunate reality. Expansion of Medicaid, of course, is the key component of the federal Affordable Care Act (ACA or "Obamacare") against which many Republican governors, including Deal, are standing in the schoolhouse door, so to speak. But it's also obvious that the status quo is not sustainable, so the committee is charged with finding ways to make it so.

Another fact, this one from state Department of Community Health Commissioner Clyde Reese, a member of the panel: Medicaid enrollees who are old, blind and/or otherwise disabled make up 29 percent of the total enrollment, but account for 58 percent of the spending.

Medicaid administrator Dubberly said Georgia's cost for implementing ACA, and receiving the added federal funding that goes with it, would be $26.9 million in FY 2014 and $101.7 million in FY 2015.

Georgia's total budget for Medicaid and PeachCare now stands at about $2.9 billion.

If Georgia can come up with its own way to make health care numbers work for Georgians who need it, more power to state leaders. If politicians need some way to comply with ACA just enough to get fed money but still save political face, that would be OK, too.

The facts and the numbers are not in dispute. Neither is the need.

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Countries in the MENA region should take advantage of mobile penetration to improve health care systems, health care experts say.

Health care and mobile sectors have globally become intertwined, they said.

Entrepreneurs are revolutionizing mobile health (m-Health) facilities, with mobile phones at their core.

With the exception of larger hospitals, m-Health services have yet to be activated, says Abdulhameed Al-Khateeb, professor of Biomedical Engineering at King Abdulaziz University (KAU) and founder and CEO of Technology Implementation and Management Experts (TIME).

To introduce such facilities, the majority of hospitals need to follow an electronic system similar to the ones at banks, where you can use a computer or a mobile phone to check your bank account.

Al-Khatib said that countries in the Middle East and North Africa have been very active in mobile penetration and Internet usage. This, he says, will make it easier to develop and transform hospital systems to an online system.

First doctors, nurses and health care professionals need to familiarize themselves with these electronic systems. The method has already been adopted by consultants and prominent doctors.

The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) has released a report that indicates that Saudi Arabia tops the list of the highest number of mobile phone users worldwide, with a ratio of 188 percent.

The system sends appointment dates and hospital charges to a patients mobile phone through an online system, said Al-Khatib. We are working on it and are trying to link specialist hospitals with one another. Any respectable hospital needs to have an IT section to develop and take care of such e-medical facilities and hospital programs.

Experts are hopeful that developing trends in the MENA region could facilitate more m-Health activities.

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Philippine government spending on health care is short of the at least 5 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO) despite above 7 percent economic growth in the past five quarters, a policy think-tank said Wednesday.

"We're currently about 3 to 3.5 percent of GDP, but WHO's standard is around 5 percent," Oscar Picazo, senior health research consultant at Philippine Institute of Development Studies (PIDS), told reporters at a briefing on a theme of Making Health More Inclusive in a Growing Economy in Makati City.

"This is despite an average growth of 7 percent in the last five quarters," he added.

On August 29, National Statistical Coordination Board (NSCB) Secretary General Jose Ramon Albert said the Philippine GDP expanded by 7.5 percent in the second quarter, above the 6 to 7 percent growth goal this year, driven by a resilient services sector as well as robust manufacturing and construction activities.

Government spending on health care is "quite low" as compared to other emerging countries which invest at least 6 to 7 percent of GDP in health, PIDS vice president Dr. Rafaelita Aldaba said.

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Every American must have health care by Jan. 1, 2014, or face paying a penalty tax during tax season in 2015, under the Affordable Care Act.

Open enrollment for all Americans begins Oct. 1 and ends March 31, 2014.

Every individual plan that exists today will not exist in 2014, because none of them will meet the requirements for ACA, said LeAnn Kennedy, life, health and employee benefits account executive at Barker-Uerlings Insurance.

Some insurance providers will allow people to remain on their benefit until April 1, which gives them the whole open enrollment period to get coverage without any breaks, Kennedy said.

For those without health insurance, applications must be completed by Dec. 15 to start coverage by Jan. 1, 2014, and avoid any tax penalties.

Everyone covered

The Affordable Care Act requires most Americans to have health insurance starting on Jan. 1, 2014, whether it is group insurance, individual insurance, Medicaid or Medicare, Kennedy said.

The key with the whole ACA is they will be able to get coverage somewhere, she said, even should they lose their jobs in the middle of the year.

One of the creations of the ACA is the development of exchanges or marketplaces. In Oregon, that health care marketplace is Cover Oregon, paid for with federal dollars.

There have been commercials for Cover Oregon, but people dont yet know what Cover Oregon is, Kennedy said. Those commercials will start to explain what Cover Oregon is.

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Philippine government spending on health care is short of the at least 5 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO) despite above 7 percent economic growth in the past five quarters, a policy think-tank said Wednesday.

"We're currently about 3 to 3.5 percent of GDP, but WHO's standard is around 5 percent," Oscar Picazo, senior health research consultant at Philippine Institute of Development Studies (PIDS), told reporters at a briefing on a theme of Making Health More Inclusive in a Growing Economy in Makati City.

"This is despite an average growth of 7 percent in the last five quarters," he added.

On August 29, National Statistical Coordination Board (NSCB) Secretary General Jose Ramon Albert said the Philippine GDP expanded by 7.5 percent in the second quarter, above the 6 to 7 percent growth goal this year, driven by a resilient services sector as well as robust manufacturing and construction activities.

Government spending on health care is "quite low" as compared to other emerging countries which invest at least 6 to 7 percent of GDP in health, PIDS vice president Dr. Rafaelita Aldaba said.

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SPRINGFIELD, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--

Coventry Health Care of Illinois and St. Johns Hospital are pleased to announced a new high-performance network in Springfield, IL.

The new product, Carelink from Coventry: A St. Johns Hospital Partnership, is effective September 1, 2013. The goal of this collaboration is to improve quality of care and lower overall health care costs in the Springfield community. The partnership demonstrates a commitment to deliver more value to the patient, no matter what his or her health care needs may be.

St. Johns Hospital is pleased to partner with Coventry to deliver coordinated care to the Springfield community, said St. Johns Hospital Interim President and CEO Larry Schumacher. Our partnership will allow us to offer our community a new and improved path to healthy living. From the primary care physicians office to our specialists and facilities, patients will have a more coordinated health care experience.

Jered Wilson, Coventrys Vice President of Network Development, said, Coventry is excited to announce the collaboration with St. Johns Hospital. This partnership shows our commitment to promote high-quality care, coordination of care and an improved patient experience all while lowering health care costs. This approach provides aligned, performance-based incentives between St. Johns Hospital, its physicians and Coventry. Our combined goal is to keep those in the communities we live in, and serve in, healthy.

St. Johns Hospital is an affiliate of Hospital Sisters Health System (HSHS), a multi-institutional health care system that operates 13 hospitals in 12 communities across Illinois and Wisconsin and an integrated physician network. HSHS is sponsored by the Hospital Sisters of St. Francis. St. John's Hospital provides a ministry of exceptional health care services to the people of central Illinois in the Catholic tradition of compassion, justice and reverence for life.

High-performance network model drives focus on more coordinated care

A high-performance network collaboration consists of a group of health care providers who assume responsibility for the quality and cost of care for a group of patients.

Coventry works with health care organizations throughout the state to develop products and services that support value-driven, patient-centered care. For more information on this specific high-performance network, please visit http://www.chcillinois.com > Health Care Solutions > Our Products > Carelink from Coventry.

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