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Medecinial garden for health care
Efforts are on for the revitalization of India #39;s traditional medicinal heritage. Kerala government will set up medicinal gardens in all schools in the state to enhance the conservation of threatened medicinal plants. The government is keen to utilise ayurveda to its full potential and will framed policies to that effect.

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By Mary Agnes Carey Kaiser Health News

Doctors serving Medicare patients. Scientists looking for a better way to treat diabetes. HIV patients who can't afford to buy their medications. These are but some of the many people who will be affected by the automatic federal spending cuts that officially took effect Friday.

Both Democrats and Republicans say they didn't like the budget reductions, called the sequester, but they couldnt agree on how to stop them. The $85.3 billion in cuts for fiscal 2013, which ends Oct. 1, are part of a larger package of $1.2 trillion in trims scheduled to occur over the next decade. The reductions are split evenly between defense and domestic programs.

The sequester would not affect Medicaid, the joint federal-state health program for the poor. However, Medicare spending would be cut by 2 percent through reductions in payments to hospitals, physicians and other care providers, including Medicare Advantage plans and the companies running the Medicare Part D plans. By law, the Medicare cuts dont begin until April 1.

But other health care efforts would be among the government programs that face reductions of about 9 percent, according to the Office of Management and Budget. The full impact likely won't be felt for weeks as the cuts roll out, and some lawmakers have suggested that sequestration cuts could be dealt with as part of negotiations to fund the government after the current continuing resolution expires March 27.

Dr. Gary Wiltz, the chairman-elect of the board of the National Association of Community Health Centers, one of the groups facing those cuts, said the reduced federal funding will cause the centers to dramatically curtail services and estimates that as many as 900,000 patients could be turned away from care. "Many of them cannot afford to go anyplace else," he said in a statement.

President Barack Obama Tuesday called on Congress to work out a different scenario for dealing with the nations fiscal problems and avert the "painful, arbitrary budget cuts." Addressing workers at a shipbuilding facility in Newport News, Va., he said, "Instead of cutting out the government spending we don't need -- wasteful programs that don't work, special interest tax loopholes and tax breaks -- what the sequester does is it uses a meat cleaver approach to gut critical investments in things like education and national security and lifesaving medical research." He is urging a combination of spending cuts and additional federal revenues through changes in the tax code.

But Republicans are opposed to any increase in taxes to fund the spending. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., criticized the president Thursday for failing to offer "a serious plan."

"Instead of directing his cabinet secretaries to trim waste in their departments, he's going to go after first responders. And teachers," McConnell said. "And almost any other sympathetic constituency you can think of. Hell say he has no choice but to release criminals into the streets and withhold vaccines from poor children. And somehow, it will be everyones fault but his. Nonsense."

The president and congressional leaders are meeting at the White House today on the issue.

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OAKLAND -- Set on a gritty corner of Oakland's International Boulevard, the nonprofit Street Level Health Project offers free checkups to patients who speak a total of 22 languages, from recent Mongolian immigrants seeking a doctor to Burmese refugees needing a dental exam.

It also opens a window on one of the challenges for state leaders who are trying to implement the Affordable Care Act, President Barack Obama's sweeping health care overhaul.

Understanding the law and its possibilities for ordinary citizens is a task even for politicians and bureaucrats, but delivering its message to non-English speakers who can benefit from it is shaping up as a special complication. That is especially true in places

Chan Lai Ly has his feet examined as part of a regular check-up related to his diabetes, by Honghue Duong, a physician's assistant, Friday, March 1, 2013 at International Community Health Services in Seattle. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren) (Ted S. Warren)

Even deciding what to call a health insurance program generates angst in a polyglot state. California's health-care insurance marketplace staff is testing "Covered California."

That would be "California Cubierto" in Spanish, but "what does it mean?" asked Laura Lopez, the Street Level clinic's executive director.

But the main feature of health care reform -- the state's health insurance exchange opening next year -- will require consumers to contrast and compare the features and costs of a range of private health insurance policies to select the one most

That could be a tall task for native English speakers, but more so for residents who speak English "less than very well."

Zaya Jaden, a 35-year-old from Mongolia visiting the Oakland clinic, said she would not know how to translate it into her native language. Advocacy groups say the state should translate it into Arabic, Armenian, Chinese (Mandarin and Cantonese), Farsi (Persian), Hmong, Khmer (Cambodian), Korean, Russian, Tagalog and Vietnamese.

Jaden was in the clinic getting free care for her sister's migraine, a much higher priority than considering how the expansion of the nation's social safety net through the Affordable Care Act might benefit her.

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Laura Lopez, left, checks the blood pressure of Santos Aguilar Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2013, at the Street Level Health Project in Oakland, Calif. In trying to brand California's new health care exchange, state officials had a hard time coming up with a name that signified health insurance, let alone one that would translate well into other languages such as Spanish, Chinese, Tagalog and Vietnamese. The exchange's 5-member board settled on "Covered California" and is currently testing tag lines to see which words resonate best in focus groups. Lopez applauds the exchange for pledging to offer written materials in different languages. But she says the state will have to commit to providing one-on-one interpretive resources because some are illiterate, some don't believe they are qualified for assistance, and some don't know how to advocate for themselves. Many families will also have members with different legal statuses. Covered California estimates there are 5.6 million Californians without health insurance, or 16 percent of the population under age 65. Of that number, 4.6 million people are eligible for coverage under the Affordable Care Act and one million are ineligible due to their immigration status. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)

OAKLAND -- Set on a gritty corner of Oakland's International Boulevard, the nonprofit Street Level Health Project offers free checkups to patients who speak a total of 22 languages, from recent Mongolian immigrants seeking a doctor to Burmese refugees needing a dental exam.

It also opens a window on one of the challenges for state leaders who are trying to implement the Affordable Care Act, President Barack Obama's sweeping health care overhaul.

Understanding the law and its possibilities for ordinary citizens is a task even for politicians and bureaucrats, but delivering its message to non-English speakers who can benefit from it is shaping up as a special complication. That is especially true in places

Chan Lai Ly has his feet examined as part of a regular check-up related to his diabetes, by Honghue Duong, a physician's assistant, Friday, March 1, 2013 at International Community Health Services in Seattle. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren) (Ted S. Warren)

Even deciding what to call a health insurance program generates angst in a polyglot state. California's health-care insurance marketplace staff is testing "Covered California."

That would be "California Cubierto" in Spanish, but "what does it mean?" asked Laura Lopez, the Street Level clinic's executive director.

But the main feature of health care reform -- the state's health insurance exchange opening next year -- will require consumers to contrast and compare the features and costs of a range of private health insurance policies to select the one most

That could be a tall task for native English speakers, but more so for residents who speak English "less than very well."

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IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--

Kofax plc (KFX.L), a leading provider of smart process applications for the business critical First Mile of customer interactions, today announced that a leading national provider of publicly funded health care insurance programs has invested more than $500,000 to expand its Kofax solution to increase efficiencies in processing a larger volume of Medicare claims and related correspondence, thereby significantly reducing labor costs and expediting claims payments.

The customer is using the additional Kofax software to increase the volume of Medicare claims forms and related documents to 24 million per year, and other correspondence to 12 million documents per year. This increases medical claims processing efficiencies by significantly reducing labor costs and expediting claims payments.

In the American Medical Association's fifth annual National Health Insurer Report Card released in June 2012, Dr. Robert M. Wah, the association's board chairman, stated, "Paying medical claims accurately the first time is good business practice for insurance companies that saves precious health care dollars and frees physicians from needless administrative tasks that take time away from patient care."

Kofax is committed to providing health insurance providers with solutions that cut costs while improving quality, said Howard Dratler, executive vice president of Field Operations at Kofax. Kofax automates document driven processes by capturing all health, patient or financial information at the point of entry, and transforming it into actionable information in a secure and auditable manner. By accurately and more efficiently automating claims processes with Kofax solutions, insurance providers can realize bottom line benefits.

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Kofax plc (KFX.L) is a leading provider of innovative smart capture and process automation software and solutions for the business critical First Mile of customer interactions. These begin with an organizations Systems of Engagement, which generate real time, information intensive communications from customers, and provide a fluid bridge to their Systems of Record, which are typically large scale, rigid enterprise applications and repositories not easily adapted to more contemporary technology. Success in the First Mile can dramatically improve an organizations customer experience and greatly reduce operating costs, thus driving increased competitiveness, growth and profitability. Kofax software and solutions provide a rapid return on investment to more than 20,000 customers in banking, insurance, government, healthcare, business process outsourcing and other markets. Kofax delivers these through its own sales and service organization, and a global network of more than 800 authorized partners in more than 75 countries throughout the Americas, EMEA and Asia Pacific. For more information, visit kofax.com.

2013 Kofax, plc. Kofax is a registered trademark and First Mile, Kofax Capture, Kofax Transformation Modules, and Kofax Monitor are trademarks of Kofax, plc.

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Juana Vergara sits in Volunteers in Medicine's free dental clinic in Wilkes-Barre waiting to be seen.

The 39-year-old woman, who moved to Wilkes-Barre from Mexico 12 years ago, speaks Spanish and has trouble communicating with others asking her questions.

Vega is among a growing number of Spanish-speaking area residents who has difficulty accessing the health care system as a result of her language barrier.

The passage of President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act is intended to lead to more access to health care for a greater population of citizens, including those who do not speak English. A challenge, officials said, is trying to bring the health care changes to limited-English speakers and hard-to-reach populations.

Volunteers in Medicine Free Medical and Dental Clinic, founded by Dr. Susan Sordoni to treat the working poor who are uninsured or underinsured, has recruited volunteer translators to assist with non-English-speaking patients, said Executive Director Kelly Ranieli. All forms distributed at the clinic are in Spanish and English. The clinic also has a few volunteers and health care providers who are fluent in Spanish, she said.

Yet, when Vergara and Maritza Vega visited the clinic, no translators were available.

Vega, 39, of Nanticoke, speaks Spanish. As she is being examined in a room at the free medical clinic, physician assistant and King's College teacher Pam MacNeely and physician assistant student Amanda Evans struggle to communicate with her.

"In most cases, it is very helpful if they bring someone, a family member or a friend, who speaks English and Spanish and could help interpret," MacNeely said. "That's the best scenario for them to bring someone with them into the room because that helps us be able to understand the patient. Most do speak some English, but it does make it difficult to get a good history and an understanding of what their condition is."

A small number of patients who speak Russian, Polish, Arabic and dialects from India also visit the Volunteers in Medicine Free Medical and Dental Clinic and it is a challenge at times to find volunteer translators who are fluent in these languages and can visit at the times of the patients' appointments, Ranieli said.

These situations are rare, she said. When all efforts have been expended, she said they request that the patient bring someone to help with translation.

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New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said that his state would accept the Medicaid expansion that is part of the ACA.

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Editor's note: Julian Zelizer is a professor of history and public affairs at Princeton University. He is the author of "Jimmy Carter" and "Governing America."

(CNN) -- The politics of health care is changing fast. President Barack Obama's Affordable Health Care Act was vulnerable during his first term when Republicans demanded repeal of the law. Even after the Supreme Court upheld its constitutionality, there were still many voices who objected to it.

However, with each passing day, it appears that the program is in good shape, slowly becoming part of the fabric of American government.

Last week, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, one of the main potential contenders for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012, said that his state would accept the Medicaid expansion that is part of the ACA. Christie had been one of the president's toughest critics, frequently lambasting the program as a prime example of big government liberalism. But he has changed his tune.

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The expansion of Medicaid will allow about 104,000 of the poorest residents in New Jersey to gain access to health insurance. Christie said: "Let me be clear: I am no fan of the Affordable Health Care Act. I think it is wrong for New Jersey and for America. I fought against it and believe, in the long run, it will not achieve what it promises. However, it is now the law of the land. I will make all my judgments as governor based on what is best for New Jerseyans."

Christie's announcement comes on top of an even more dramatic reversal, that of Florida's Gov. Rick Scott.

The former health industry executive, who was elected to lead the Sunshine State in 2010, has been one of the more conservative voices in the GOP. Scott, who once warned that "Obamacare will result in the rationing of health care, significant tax increases, significant job losses and the inability of many Americans to keep their existing health insurance" also announced that Florida would accept the new Medicaid funds.

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Since the start of the Bahraini uprising in February 2011, ongoing unrest has created unique challenges for the countrys health care system.

What began as part of a revolutionary wave of protests aimed at gaining greater political freedom and equality for the countrys Shiite population, and to put an end to the reign of King Hamad, had turned violent, resulting in the overcrowding of emergency rooms by injured protesters and dwindling access to quality health care for the sick and dying. The Bahraini government soon began to view hospitals and medical clinics as hubs for members of the opposition trying to destabilize the country.

Initially, when the whole crisis occurred, there was a shamble within the health care system. Clearly that was brought to a quick resolution and now there's a little bit of a civil order especially in terms of the health care services provided to the civilians, Dr. Abdulla Al-Khan, an international health consultant and director of the Center for Abnormal Placentation at Hackensack University Medical Center in New Jersey, told FoxNews.com. I think the challenges that they have, clearly, are the protesters and especially the opposition.

Al-Khan said for the most part, there is order in the hospitals and medical centers in Bahrain -- a far cry from the chaos that ensued at the Salmaniya Medical Complex, the countrys largest public hospital, after at least a dozen medical staff were arrested for joining the opposition in protests.

While Al-Khan acknowledged that the Bahraini government has been working to make sure public hospitals are functioning at full-capacity to provide exceptional health care to its citizens, protesters for the opposition are still making it difficult for sick citizens to get care and compromising the lives of children along the way.

They are having this battle, they are trying to compromise with the opposition, the opposition still have small children who are using all sorts of devices gas tanks, which is becoming a huge problem right now, and I witnessed that and quite frankly, it's scary, Al-Khan said.

International human rights advocates and some of the country's doctors have reported that the Bahraini government blocked ambulances from aiding wounded patients and in some cases, hospitals were being used as detention centers, causing injured protesters to avoid seeking much-needed medical care. But government officials have said that members of the opposition were only handed over after medical treatment and vowed to investigate claims of violations.

Al-Khan said that politics and medicine can sometimes go hand-in-hand and have a domino effect when it comes to the health care system in a country at a political crossroads, but noted that both the government and the citizens of Bahrain need remember what is really important for the countrys future.

Let's focus on issues thats more important to the children of Bahrain, to the region, as opposed to these political issues, Al-Khan said. The psychological stresses of politics affect an individual's health if you have a huge political issue that causes casualties, that affects health.

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Suzanne Curry Immigration and Health Care
Suzanne Curry from Health Care for All speaks on Immigration and Health care issues at the Cohasset Immigration Forum sponsored by the South Shore Democratic Caucus

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I wrote recently about my recent experience in trying to get itemized receipts for medical procedures. Readers have offered helpful feedback.

Coincidentally, the feedback arrived as I was reading an article published last month in Time magazine.

The article Bitter Pill: Why Medical Bills are Killing Us , by Steven Brill is worth your time, although its long.

Ill get to the Brill article in a sec. First, a recap of my own recent experience.

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In both, a desk clerk accepted my payment of hundreds of dollars, needed because I hadnt reached the deductible limit for my employer-provided health insurance.

Each clerk then told me she couldnt provide an itemized receipt. To get one, I was told, Id have to call a billing office in a week.

I needed itemized receipts so the company that manages my flexible spending account would permit me to use pre-tax money for the payments.

Two readers pointed out how providers use of procedure and diagnosis codes makes it difficult to know the cost of any office visit in advance. The codes determine how Medicare and private insurers pay.

Either the provider of the services or the charge-entry person enters those codes in the computer after the test/procedure/visit is completed and the payment captured, wrote one of the readers, a front-office supervisor for a Triad-area health care provider.

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This is the first in a series of stories about local changes in health care resulting from the federal Affordable Care Act. Today: Expansion plans.

By Jondi Gumz

SANTA CRUZ -- New medical clinics, expansion of existing clinics and more than 70 new jobs are on the horizon as local officials prepare for an influx nine months from now of people with health insurance who previously had gone without.

The push comes from a federal health overhaul championed by President Obama and slated to take effect Jan. 1. With the mandate for individual health insurance, many people will either be covered by a state program or encouraged to buy coverage. Some will qualify for a subsidy depending on their income.

Salud Para La Gente is embarking on a $5 million project to serve 2,000 more patients, renovating its main clinic in Watsonville to add 13 rooms for medical exams and four rooms with dental chairs. The architect is Hibser/Yamauchi of Oakland, which has a health care specialty, but a contractor has not been selected yet.

"We intend to include local contractors wherever we can," said Dori Rose Inda, Salud's interim executive director.

Inda, who is extending her stay through June, has a new patient services manager, Dorian Seamster, former clinic manager at Planned Parenthood Mar Monte.

Salud has hired a new obstetrician/gynecologist to replace a doctor who left, and plans

"We may hire another pediatrician and possibly another family practice provider but we are completing an assessment of demand first," Inda said.

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Health Minister Ted Flemming said a second year of government investment in improvements to mental health care in New Brunswick will be announced in the upcoming budget (CBC)

Health Minister Ted Flemming says his government is committed to continued improvements to mental health care services in the province.

This week a Moncton mother and Provincial Court Judge Michael McKee expressed concerns that improvements were not happening quickly enough and people are unable to receive the care they need quickly.

Flemming acknowledged the challenge of completely changing the way provincial departments respond is a challenging task, especially when the wheels of government turn slowly.

The provincial government does have a plan to transform mental health care in New Brunswick that was announced in May 2011.

"It's a major revision and a major refocusing in the treatment and awareness of health care and I hope that we're going to be leaders in the country in this," Flemming said.

He said after the first year of investment in the action plan there have been improvements, including funding for 100 young people to receive early psychosis intervention.

Further investments will be announced by the provincial government in the March budget, according to the health minister

Flemming said he is asking New Brunswickers to cut him some slack, explaining that he's only been the health minister for four months.

"The [action] plan is 2011-2018, then we had a switch of ministers ... and I find that a $3 billion portfolio, 20-some thousand employees, health renewal and everything else, that I just humanly can't get to everything on day one."

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KANSAS CITY, Mo., March 1, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The global health care focused innovation competition Hackovate Health came to a close when it announced four winning business ideas at the Finale event at Union Station in Kansas City, Missouri. Organized by H&R Block and Think Big Partners, the Hackovate Health Finale brought together innovators, entrepreneurs, healthcare professionals and industry leaders for a half-day pitch fest and awards ceremony.

Ten finalists, four judges and many community leaders, supporters and attendees joined to see innovation and entrepreneurism in action. At the event, a panel of four Finale judges determined the grand prize winner ($15,000), the runner-up ($5,000) and the second runner-up ($2,500). Finale judges included Kush Saxena (H&R Block), David Edwards (Cerner), Phyllis Faulkner-Johnson (Google Fiber) and Anna Haghgooie (Sandbox). In addition, attendees had the chance to watch 10 pitches from finalists and vote for their favorite via mobile platform for the Google Fiber People's Choice Award.

Tami Hutchinson and her team at eLuminate Health (Kansas City, MO) was announced the winner of the $15,000 grand prize. eLuminate Health is an online platform where surgeons and patients can easily find one another and compare procedures based on price and quality ratings. The eLuminate Health platform predicts to save up to 17% on procedures and 5% per year on healthcare costs. The company solves problems for consumers, payers, administrators and providers while improving healthcare quality and decreasing costs.

In addition to the cash prize, eLuminate Health has been recognized as one of the top startups in the healthcare tech industry.

"We truly appreciated this entire process," said Tami Hutchison of eLuminate Health. "Hackovate has helped us think in new ways and we will use this opportunity to get our product into the market and bring value to consumers in the U.S."

Karan Srivastava and his team of SHHADE (Miami, FL) was declared the winner of the Google Fiber People's Choice Award after receiving a majority of the public vote. SHHADE stands for Supply Home Health Care Alternatives and Dedicated Education. The SHHADE platform allows for remote patient monitoring, health coaching, care coordination and mobile primary care services. As the winner of the Google Fiber People's Choice Award, SHHADE will gain bragging rights and media exposure.

Liam Ryan of GetHealth (Dublin, Ireland) was announced as the Hackovate first runner-up, receiving a $5,000 cash prize from H&R Block. The GetHealth mobile app is "Foursquare for health" as it improves consumer health by "checking in" to different healthy activities. The app incorporates "motifications", notifications to help consumers improve their health. GetHealth has already been named an effective WaaS (wellness as a service).

"As a company with a base in New York and Ireland, we are always looking for opportunities to showcase in the United States on a global scale. Hackovate allowed us to not only do that, but to think big too," said Liam Ryan of GetHealth.

In addition, Scott Speranza of InAssist Health Management Solution (Torrance, CA) was announced as the second runner-up and received a $2,500 prize courtesy of H&R Block. InAssist specializes in medical protection services and solves for the problem of hospital overcharges. With an integrated portal, consumers can log in to the InAssist system to pay medical bills and better understand what they are getting charged for. InAssist incorporates TotalCare, which allows for a proprietary method for carriers and doctors.

In addition to celebrating the announcement of the Hackovate winners, attendees were invited to listen to keynote speakers Ned Holland of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

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WASHINGTON (AP) Airline schedules, food inspections, IRS taxpayer assistance and deployments of Navy ships could all be hampered by the government's automatic spending cuts.

But President Barack Obama's health care law a program Republicans have spent the last three years trying to kill will roll out on time, the administration says.

Only a small fraction of the $1.6 trillion the Affordable Care Act spends to cover the uninsured over the next decade is subject to the so-called sequester. The cuts were to go into effect Friday, after Obama and congressional Republicans failed to agree on a mix of spending cuts and tax increases to staunch government red ink.

"Consumers in every state will have access (to coverage) when open enrollment begins on Oct. 1, 2013," Health and Human Services spokeswoman Erin Shields Britt told The Associated Press, when asked whether the budget cuts will delay the implementation of Obama's signature domestic program.

Dubbed "Obamacare" by its foes, the Affordable Care Act ACA for short has demonstrated staying power. It survived a Supreme Court challenge, last year's presidential election and more than 30 votes in the GOP-led House to eliminate, defund or otherwise scale it back.

Now it seems the program will lurch through a budget crisis that could disrupt other government functions and emerge largely unscathed.

Health and Human Services, the government department putting the law into place, says it doesn't have final estimates of the effect the budget cuts will have on its employees. But the department says it is working to prepare for the reductions in a way that minimizes the impact on its mission. HHS already oversees Medicare and Medicaid, which provide coverage to about 100 million people. The new law will add another 30 million people to the coverage rolls.

"It's galling that Obamacare is not being touched," said Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, a veteran of the 1990s budget struggles that forced a partial government shutdown. Delaying the rollout of the health care law for two years could have saved enough money to take the place of the sequester, he said.

Some independent experts see irony in the situation. Others say the administration must be bluffing, and surely the cuts will slow the health law in some way.

"It's so strange that the one thing Republicans were so ticked off at was the ACA, and now, when it comes time for reductions in spending, for all practical purposes the ACA gets a pass," said Bill Hoagland, senior vice president at the Bipartisan Policy Center, and formerly a long-serving GOP budget aide in Congress.

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Virginia: Pro-lifers defend women #39;s health care

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Part 2 of 5: Chandler Regional and Mercy Gilbert Medical Centers Host Health Care Forum
Health care experts discuss how to better understand the Affordable Healthcare Act and how it may affect local businesses. The panel of experts include: Part 1 - Tim Bricker, President and CEO of Chandler Regional and Mercy Gilbert Part 2 - Don Hughes, policy advisor on health care for Governor Jan Brewer Part 3 - Tom Marreel, founder and CEO of Marreel Slater Insurance Part 4 - Sandra Abalos, Principal, REDW, LLC

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Health Care Policy Reform - Elizabeth Teisberg, Ph.D.
Dr. Elizabeth Teisberg, an Associate Professor at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business, presents five ideas about health care policy reform at Transform 2009, a symposium sponsored by the Mayo Clinic Center for Innovation. For more information, go to http://www.mayo.edu

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