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In some cases, those parents will have to pay extra. Until 2014, when insurers will be barred from charging more to those with pre-existing medical conditions, plans can consider a young adult's condition when deciding on a family's premium, the Washington Post said Tuesday. And group plans that already take into account the number of children covered could charge more for older children. Plans that don't offer dependent coverage to begin with will not have to offer any additional coverage.

Overall, the expanded coverage should raise premiums about 1 percent if costs are spread across all families with employer-sponsored plans, the government estimated. The provision kicks in after Sept. 23, but some insurers have agreed to begin it sooner.

Since many key elements of the health law will not take effect for several years, President Obama is eager to highlight benefits that people can take advantage of this year or next. “These changes mean that starting this spring, when young Americans graduate from college, many who do not have health coverage will be able to stay on their parents' insurance for a few more years,” the president said Saturday.

Young adults, as many as 1.8 million, make up a significant bloc of the uninsured in America. Some are not yet covered by starter jobs; others simply aren't worried about it.

For example, you will only get your pet spayed or neutered once. Some practices are now recommending vaccinating for some diseases every three years instead of annually. The bottom line is that you likely know about what you pay for wellness care annually. I would go through the list above and write down the cost of each procedure or product. If you don’t know, call your veterinarian and get an estimate. Then, it is simply a matter of adding up the benefit reimbursements that you would receive for those procedures and products and subtracting the additional premium you pay the company to cover those things and see if you would come out ahead.

Sometimes it is hard to estimate accurately. If a company pays wellness benefits according to a defined benefit schedule (usually listed on their website), it is relatively easy. But, if a company pays according to a schedule of what is usual and customary for your region of the country (usually not listed on their website), it is harder, if not impossible, to determine if you’d come out ahead. The company may not be willing to tell you what the benefit would be for each procedure or product in the list above until you actually file a claim. It is also hard if the company includes wellness care in their accident/illness coverage for one premium (not as an additional rider). You don’t know how much of the premium is going for the accident/illness coverage and how much is going for wellness care coverage.

Wellness benefits may be worthwhile if purchased for a new puppy or kitten. Some companies now offer generous benefits to cover the complete puppy or kitten vaccination series. This is also the best time to get your pet neutered or spayed which is also covered in most policies as a wellness care benefit. You may also be reimbursed for heartworm preventatives and flea control products. If purchased as a rider, you can always drop the wellness coverage later. If it is included in the policy (not a separate rider), you must be careful and inquire whether changing to another policy later on will affect your accident/illness coverage -especially how pre-existing conditions are handled.

Dr. Kenney is a practicing veterinarian in Memphis, Tennessee. He is the author of “Your Guide To Understanding Pet Health Insurance” available on Amazon ( http://www.amazon.com/Your-Guide-Understanding-Health-Insurance/dp/0982322100/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1272303480&sr=8-1 ).

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“……contains WHO's annual compilation of data from its 193 Member States, and includes a summary of progress towards the health-related Millennium Development Goals and targets.

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Aetna health insurance company is threatening to terminate its contract with Novant Health July 1.

If the two organizations don’t come to an agreement on allowable charges for medical care, about 125,000 Charlotte-area Aetna customers could find themselves out-of-network, and paying more, to use Presbyterian Healthcare services.

“Our goal is to keep Novant in the network,” said Mark Schmidt, market president for Aetna in the Charlotte area. But he said Novant is already “the most expensive” health-care system in the Charlotte.

Aetna sent about 3,000 letters to Presbyterian-affiliated doctors last week, and planned to meet Tuesday with representatives of its 25 largest employer customers to let them know about the potential contract termination.

Schmidt said Novant received a 7.7 percent increase in January, and is asking for another 13 percent increase in July and 7 percent more in July 2011. Novant’s inpatient hospital charges are 18 percent higher than Aetna’s N.C. average, and charges for outpatient services are 28 percent higher, according to figures supplied by Aetna.

Schmidt said Aetna’s goal would be to provide no additional increase for Novant this year.

Novant spokesman Jim Tobalski said the hospital system is hoping to reach agreement with Aetna soon. He said the insurance company’s decision to notify doctors, customers and the news media is a “tactic” designed to get public support.

“We’re disappointed Aetna is trying to negotiate a contract publicly,” he said.

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WASHINGTON — Millions of Americans could lose some important benefits of the new health overhaul law depending on how the Obama administration chooses to interpret one term: "grandfathered."

Under the law, existing, or "grandfathered" health plans are exempt from several consumer protections, including a requirement that beginning as early as September prohibits health plans from charging co-payments and other cost-sharing for certain preventive health services such as immunizations and cancer screenings.

The issue has touched off a debate over how grandfathering is defined, with some consumer and employer groups squaring off. Consumer groups say that if the definition is too lenient, many Americans won't get the full benefit of the law. Meanwhile, some business groups say that if their plans have to forfeit their grandfather status, they'll be subject to all the new rules that raise costs and premiums.

Congress included the grandfather provisions in the bill to give employers and insurers time to transition to the new law. The law is mostly vague, though, on exactly what constitutes a grandfathered plan. For example, does a plan lose its grandfather status if it increases employees' deductibles or changes prescription drug coverage? Plans that give up their grandfather status must abide by all the consumer protections in the new law.

Some state regulators are confused. "What's not clear to me is actually how we are going to define a grandfathered plan," said Beth Sammis, the acting insurance commissioner for Maryland.

The grandfathered plans are subject to some consumer protections in the bill, including a requirement that plans provide dependent coverage for children until age 26; a ban on pre-existing condition exclusions for children this year and everyone in 2014, and a prohibition on lifetime insurance limits. In addition, grandfathered health plans will be blocked from retroactively canceling coverage after a policyholder gets sick.

Grandfathered plans also will be exempt from some consumer protections, however, including one requirement that health plans cover certain treatments associated with clinical trials, and another that limits annual out-of-pocket costs. In addition, grandfathered plans won't have to meet new rules limiting how much premiums can vary based on age and tobacco use.

The Obama administration, which is writing the regulations that implement the new law, is expected to issue its guidance soon on how it interprets the grandfathering clause.

Jessica Santillo, a spokeswoman for the Department of Health and Human Services, wouldn't comment directly on the issue.

Alluding to President Barack Obama's oft-repeated pledge, she said, "Under health reform, Americans who like their health care can keep it, and we'll change the balance of power to put consumers in control of their health care, not big insurance companies. Our work to implement this law and draft regulations is ongoing, but we've already made tremendous progress."

Many business organizations, including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the National Federation of Independent Business, are pushing for a loose interpretation of "grandfathering" that allows employers to maintain flexibility in designing coverage. They want employers to be able to make changes in their health plans while retaining their grandfathered status. They fear that many of the law's requirements will increase costs and premiums.

"The no-brainer solution is to have an understanding that plans can evolve and change and that should not trigger loss of grandfathering," said James Gelfand, a lobbyist for the Chamber.

America's Health Insurance Plans, the major health insurance lobby, also backs a broad definition that would allow plans to make "routine" changes and still maintain their grandfather status. "Our focus is on minimizing disruption for the more than 200 million people we serve as we look at these implementation issues," said spokesman Robert Zirkelbach.

However, consumer groups and organizations such as the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network worry the "grandfathering" clauses will be a huge loophole that allows employers and insurers to avoid complying with the law's increased consumer protections and benefits. "This is one of the most critical issues going forward in the regulation writing," said Erin Reidy, senior policy analyst at the cancer group. "We are very concerned."

Reidy said that grandfathered plans could go on into perpetuity because the law doesn't give a date when that status expires. She said the group is recommending that the administration "adopt a real narrow definition of grandfathering and any change to coverage should constitute a loss of grandfathering status."

Some employers are concerned that changes they typically make every year to their employee health coverage — such as changing a policy's co-pays or deductibles — could alter a plan's grandfathered status. "(Employers') ability to manage future costs will be constrained to some degree," said Neil Trautwein, vice president and employee benefits policy counsel for the National Retail Federation. "There are cases where (medical) practice may change, where they might want to encourage behavior — further incentives on wellness, for example — and we're leery about how big a tripwire there will be for changes."

Employers are anxious to see the new regulations from the Obama administration because they need the information this summer as they develop their health benefits for 2011, said Sally Doubet King, a partner with the McGuireWoods law firm in Chicago. "I know of several employers who want to be sure not do anything that would take them out of grandfather status," she said.

(Kaiser Health News is an editorially independent news service and a program of the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonpartisan health care policy organization that isn't affiliated with Kaiser Permanente.)

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1. Medical outcomes in the U.S. have not improved over the last decade. Private health insurance costs continues to rise and you get less coverage. In this example long term care insurance encompasses our population getting older as well as clean cost index to sustain health care by private insurance. Who will be able to afford the cost in 3 -10 years?

2. Yes I am insured and yes I have been denied treatment multiple times and I am healthy. Since I know how the system works I have manged to get what I need, the same for my elderly parents.

3. Yes government will really bring cost down. It is know worldwide that you cannot do business with the government unless you are the lowest and most responsive bidder, the only exception is the defense industry. This cuts both ways because government removes the profit motive, central to any business model. This is settled fact.

4. Medicare is running out of money, but it in large part it has achieved the intended mission. It came out of the depression era. Retired and elderly people where digging through trash, they had no pension and no health care. Medicare was designed to be safety net and to rid America of the problem of literally leaving people who have worked all of their lives, without anything due to the economy.

5. What I specifically like in the bill, I don’t know is in the bill(s). I think that if we are paying for health care for Congress we should be eligible for the same thing. If it is not affordable to us, it is not affordable for them. Then they should have my plan and your health plan, let’s call it even.

6. I would change the part of the bill that is unclear on how we would pay for this, if I knew what was in the bill. lol. I hear it is 3-4 bills in the Congress.

7. If the Congress deals with what we can afford it is a short term solution. I cannot say to you definitively that the nation can afford a long term solution. Certainly above my pay grade.

8. No I don’t see it leading to single payer. I don’t see it leading to anything yet, because I don’t know enough about the bills.

9. Take a look at the stock listing for health care and equipment services below. Hell no I don’t want government in charge of rationing my health insurance. Veterans Affairs health insurance is a good example of the question you raise. We all know how screwed up health insurance is for our service members. I feel exactly the same way about UHC, Aetna and Blue Cross Blue Shield. The only difference is one makes record profits, the other is incompetent.

10. Business will always take the path of least resistance when it comes to costs. Especially now. If small business does not have to pay for health care overhead I would think they would be very happy. They can put that money elsewhere. What cost swould be passed on to the end user?

11. It doesn’t bother me, if this is going to be done it has to be paid for. Do I like it? No. At least they have the political courage to eventually have the discussion.

12. It is not the governments job to teach us how to raise our children. It is the governments job to make sure the water is pure, peanut butter is not contaminated and mad cow diseases is a non-starter.

13. Business is not able to bail us out. I don’t see how government has much of a choice moving forward. This train started rolling during the Bush Administration, now we hear the rumble and the whistle.

14. We have to learn from our mistakes and not do the exact same thing that caused them to fail. What positives did we learn? Isn’t that how we should deal with our own affairs?

15. Yes indeed. I have been in the industry for better than a decade.

16. I have to mitigate my own financial risk, but I have to have something to mitigate with. Isn’t this why we are having this discussion?

17. No I don not yet know the unfunded liabilities for the program. I know the Congress has passed trillions of dollars for defense spending leaving us with unfunded liabilities. I am not saying it is right, but again, we need to learn from our mistakes in governance. As far as safe, nothing is safe to base any decision on any premise. It is all guess work, conjecture and calculus. It is for this reason, the lies about health care mucks up getting anything done, when something clearly needs to be done for the good of the public.

18. No.

19. Health care can be a fundamental right, however, it is not. In Sweden, Canada, Britain and the U.S. Congress health care is a fundamental right. In fact it is entitlement.

20. If you have an Apple Ipod flip it in the back and see where it is built. It is built by that country’s poor. South Korea poor builds LG (Living Good) TV’s, Hyundai Motors, they don’t have unions and all make a living wage. Now, compare the nexus of cash flow and the skills of China and Korea’s poor and ask yourself the same question. Our poor don’t have the opportunity to build anything for Apple. What opportunities do our poor have compared to the poor working class in China and India?
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In the nation’s drive to computerize patient records, Jonathan Bush surely qualifies as the most disgruntled beneficiary of the government’s largesse – billions in incentives to accelerate adoption by doctors and hospitals.

Mr. Bush is chief executive of AthenaHealth, which offers electronic health records and billing services to physicians, using an Internet-based, software-as-a-service model. His argument is that the government incentive program, which begins next year, will, given its size and complexity, serve to subsidize traditional health software, which resides on the hard drives of personal computers and servers.

The big, old-line vendors like General Electric, Allscripts and Cerner, he contends, stand to gain more than the Web-based insurgents, like Athena and others.

“It’s health care information technology’s version of cash for clunkers,” Mr. Bush said at a health care industry conference in Dana Point, Calif., which ended on Friday.

“Established technology is being given a federally funded new lease on life,” Mr. Bush said. “Traditional health software now is on Medicare, being kept alive like grandma.”

Mr. Bush is hardly politically disinterested, as the nephew and cousin, respectively, of two Republican presidents (yes, that Bush). But he is not alone in making the observation that big government programs tend to favor big companies.

Still, even Mr. Bush says because the incentives to doctors, up to $40,000 over five years, will only be paid for “meaningful use” of the technology, it is an important step. The government’s definitions of meaningful use are phased in over years, but eventually include everything from tracking patient vaccinations and blood work to automated reminders to doctors of harmful drug interactions and the computerized reporting of patient data for public health programs.

“It’s real money for a pay-for-performance program,” he said. “And that will have an effect.”

On that point, Mr. Bush finds common ground with Dr. David Blumenthal, the national health information technology coordinator in the Obama administration, who also attended the conference. In his presentation and an interview, Dr. Blumenthal emphasized time and again that the government program is less about technology than about changing the terms of trade in health care.

The government’s intervention in health information technology market, he said, is justified to correct a market failure. “The market doesn’t reward performance,” Dr. Blumenthal said.

In the current fee-for-service system, doctors and hospitals are paid for doing more – more visits, more tests, more surgeries. Quality and cost are not typically measured and compensated, outside some government pilot projects and a comparative handful of larger physician groups around the country.

The electronic health record, in Dr. Blumenthal’s view, is a tool – and yes, a stalking horse – for bringing measurement, data-based decision-making and accountability to the practice of medicine. The computerized patient record, then, is a step toward changing compensation of medicine and the economics of health care.

On Tuesday, for example, the administration announced $220 million in Beacon Community grants to 15 cities and regions across the nation to help them deploy modern health technology to deliver measurable improvements over the next two or three years. The grants are for efforts to combat chronic illnesses like diabetes and asthma or other problems like reducing the rate of hospital readmissions.

The purpose, Dr. Blumenthal said, was to “show, in a tangible way, what is possible in health with modern technology.” Later, he explained, “It’s much more about health than technology.”

Throughout the conference, speakers lamented that the recent health legislation only really addressed one pillar of heath care reform – access. It did not forcefully address the other two vital ingredients in reforming health care – cost and quality.

David Bowen, who just stepped down as the staff director for health policy on the Senate health committee, agreed that the legislation was “inadequate” in dealing with the cost and quality issues. But, he added, it was the most that could be done politically.

To advance the broader agenda of reform, Mr. Bowen pointed to the electronic health record initiative, which was part of the year-earlier economic stimulus package, not this year’s health reform legislation. Health information technology, Mr. Bowen said, had the potential to be a “game changer.”

He elaborated by saying that “meaningful use is on its way to becoming the two most important words in health care.”

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4) Special attention to vulnerable groups such as children, women, disabled and elderly.

I’ve been surprised that despite knowing this, health has never taken its rightful place on the national agenda from the Government of India and even outside. The fact that diseases that affect more than one nation (HIV / AIDS, swine influenza, SARS, etc.) that afflict us have not even inspired a place on the global agenda. National States are still more likely to give security or commercial considerations take priority over health care. Healthcare, like climate change, is relegated to the sidelines.

The recently experienced a growing acceptance of the concept of health security. But there are big differences in the understanding and use of the term in different contexts. Politicians in developed countries stressed that their populations especially against external threats such as terrorism and pandemics, while health workers and politicians in developing countries think of the term in a broader framework for public health. Indeed, the concept is applied unevenly across the world. Divergent views of various states, combined with fears of hidden national security agendas, leading to a breakdown of mechanisms for global cooperation. So much so that some developing countries have begun to doubt that internationally shared health data is used in their best interest. Resolution of these incompatible understandings is a global priority.

This requires a global context of India’s largest and least used “weapons” – soft power.

Soft power has always been a central element in the diplomatic leadership. The power to attract, to get others to want what you want to frame the issues to set the agenda, is rooted in thousands of years of human experience. Skilled leaders have always understood that attractiveness comes from credibility and legitimacy. Power has never flowed solely from the barrel of a gun, even the most brutal dictators relied attraction and fear. India should exercise soft power to get himself some of the best technologies, products, services, talent and

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Role of health diplomacy will vary depending on the specific context and stakeholders. How global health will be a foreign policy issue for states, health diplomacy plays an important role in supplementing or assisting formal diplomatic channels of distribution. In cases where civil society or the private sector is engaged, health diplomacy assumes a leadership role in promoting or multilateral dialogue.

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It is quite well known that global health care threatened by powerful trends – increasing demand, rising costs, uneven quality, inequitable distribution and misleading incentives. In India too, current healthcare systems will be unsustainable if unchanged over the next decade. If ignored, they will overwhelm health systems, creating massive financial burdens and devastating health problems for fellow Indians.

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The warnings over product recalls come almost daily to my email inbox: today, public health officials warn consumers over undeclared nuts in Product A. Tomorrow, public health officials will warn me about salmonella or sulfites in Product B. But the big one from this week, the one that really makes me shake my head, was the recall of several common children's pain relievers and fever reducers over fears of bacterial contamination, inappropriate concentrations of active ingredients and dark particles suspended in the medication.

What's really disturbing is that parents had apparently been complaining about foul odors coming from some of the products for weeks or even months before any kind of warning or announcement was made. While even the Food and Drug Administration says the chance of significant injury from the products is remote, that public health agency nonetheless decided that a recall of the products was necessary. But even that recall is voluntary, and it makes me wonder what it takes to truly force a product off the shelves.

I may be reading too much into things here, but I got the sense that public health officials were more offended at the consumer side of the issue – meaning consumers bought a product that didn't meet general quality control standards – than by the safety side of the issue – meaning vulnerable children were potentially taking medications that contained higher dosages of ingredients that are safe for them. One of the products on the recall list is infants' and children's Tylenol. Now, I am a big fan of Tylenol. It works. But it can be dangerous when it's taken in too-high doses, a point company officials drove home a couple of years ago with a series of public service ads. To recap: the manufacturer of these medicines may have increased the concentrations of an ingredient known to be the cause of thousands of overdoses each year – some fatal – and the FDA is content to issue a “voluntary” recall?

Here's what FDA Commissioner Margaret A. Hamburg had to say about it: “We want to be certain that consumers discontinue using these products and that they know what to do if they have concerns about a specific product. While the potential for serious health problems is remote, Americans deserve medications that are safe, effective, and of the highest quality. We are investigating the products and facilities associated with this recall and will provide updates as we learn more.”

Gee, thanks, Commissioner Hamburg. Our top public health official later says in her statement addressing the recall that parents should contact their health care provider if they suspect their child is suffering from side effects of the recalled medications. Do you know what a side effect can be of taking too much of the active ingredient in Tylenol? It's liver failure. I don't know about you, but I'm growing weary of all these public health reports about recalled and unsafe products, whether they are of food or medicines. Given the numbers of reports I read each week, I have no choice to believe that there's no real teeth in quality control enforcement, and that the occasional embarrassment of a warning or recall is just the cost of doing business for some companies. What do you think?

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The ‘More Transparency In Health Care’ Debate Misses The Forest For The Trees

Yesterday, the Energy and Commerce health subcommittee held a hearing on health care transparency and considered several bills that would require “providers, payers and vendors to publicly disclose the cost of their services.” Instinctively, more transparency sounds like a good thing and Republicans are always claiming that empowering consumers will significantly lower health care spending. But over at the WSJ Health Blog, Katherine Hobson points out that too much transparency could actually increase health care spending. Why? Peter Orszag explains:

On the provider side, more transparency would make information about the prices that hospitals, physicians, and drug companies charge insurers more visible, but whether such disclosure would lead to higher or lower prices for consumers on average is unclear and depends on the nature of competition in the relevant market. The markets for some health care services are highly concentrated, so increasing transparency in such markets could lead to higher, rather than lower, prices because higher prices are easier to maintain when the prices charged by each provider involved can be observed by all of the others. However, aggregated information or information on average prices would make it more difficult for providers to coordinate higher prices because individual providers’ prices would not be obvious. Whatever the effect on average prices, more transparent prices would probably reduce the range of prices.

If we’re going to drag Orszag to the hill to explain how greater transparency will affect health care spending, we should probably mention that posting the prices of essential services could also discourage patients from investing in needed care, leading them to allude the kind of preventive services that would prevent more expensive chronic conditions.

But generally, the back and forth about transparency misses the forest for the trees. If we’re really trying to lower health care spending, then we should stop looking at care in pieces — this service costs this, and that service costs that — and think about treating the patient more holistically through care coordination, accountable care organizations, medical homes and the like. The new health law will invest in these kinds of reforms, but lawmakers will have to stop believing that transparency is some kind of silver bullet — after all, other countries don’t have transparent systems and their prices are lower — before we can see real delivery reform and lower costs.

Reporting from Port-au-Prince, Haiti –In a sweltering annex behind the General Hospital, inner demons stalk in plain view.

In one cramped room, a 58-year-old woman rocks rhythmically on a folding chair and recites Psalms one after another, her mouth curled up in a faraway smile. In another, a young man describes how his heart takes off without warning, thumping like a runaway train the way it did that terrible afternoon.

Not all the hurts from Haiti's earthquake can be seen. The Jan. 12 temblor, which the government estimates killed 300,000 people, also exacted a toll on the psyche of survivors. The damage is still emerging months after many of the physical wounds were patched up.

An untold number of Port-au-Prince residents are suffering anxiety or feeling panic at the slightest movement that suggests the earth is shaking. Others have fallen into depression. For people who had underlying mental illnesses, the shock and grief have been severe enough to trigger a variety of disorders, including schizophrenia and mania, mental health workers say.

The poorest country in the Western Hemisphere was never an easy place to live. Recent months have poured more stress on families, many of which are living on the streets with no money, unsteady supplies of food and a future that on many days appears to be a fearsome void.

“People were pushed over the threshold,” said Peter Hughes, a London psychiatrist who heads mental health efforts in Haiti for the Los Angeles-based International Medical Corps, which has three psychiatrists working here. “The earthquake changed everything.”

Hughes and his colleagues working at General Hospital have seen 200 patients referred from the emergency room for a variety of mental problems. The quake was an aggravating factor in most of the serious cases and the cause of what Hughes calls “earthquake anxiety,” a not-unexpected reaction often marked by insomnia, racing pulse rates and a lingering fear of going indoors.

A 34-year-old woman lying in bed in the main hospital insists that her legs are paralyzed, though they work fine. Hughes said the “conversion disorder” stems from stress turned into physical symptoms.

“We don't even argue with her about it. She won't believe us,” Hughes said.

Although medical workers say Haitians have handled the calamity with remarkable resiliency, the nation was ill-prepared for a deluge of mental health problems. Its Public Health Ministry employed only nine psychiatrists, one for every million residents. There were fewer than 20 psychiatrists in private practice.

The capital's 50-year-old government-run psychiatric hospital, Mars and Kline, is a bleak bunker of chipped paint and grimy tile floors where 60 patients sleep in padlocked enclosures without beds.

On a recent day, a dozen patients languished behind bars in a sun-scorched concrete courtyard fouled by human waste. Half wandered without clothes. On a wall, someone had scrawled “Death Row,” the name patients gave to a corridor through which many escaped during the earthquake. The hallway is decorated with faded, childlike drawings of fruit and Santa Claus.

Louis Marc Jeanny Girard, a psychiatrist who has served as the hospital's medical director for 10 years, said Haiti has never treated mental illness with much care. Often, he said, people suffering psychoses were dismissed as being in the grip of the “mystical.”

“They never take the mental health issue seriously,” Girard said. “They take AIDS and things they can see visually and give them more value. They always put this problem at the end.”

But Girard and other mental health professionals say this may be the perfect moment to fix the inadequacies.

Foreign organizations have begun discussions with Haitian officials on the outlines of a decentralized mental health system that would rely on grass-roots diagnosis and care across the countryside.

Community mental health workers would be trained to refer patients to local clinics. Those with serious problems would be referred to psychiatrists. A similar model has been employed for HIV treatment.

“What we want to have is a system where mental illnesses will be taken care of on the ground,” said Eddy Eustache, a priest and psychologist who works here with Boston-based Partners in Health. “It is an opportunity to admit that little has been done for mental health. The government has to do something, and I think they are on the right track.”

It is too soon to know how many workers would have to be trained or how much such an approach would cost. It seems clear, however, that much of the load would continue to be shouldered by groups such as Partners in Health, which is running a pilot project in Haiti's central and coastal regions.

Since the quake, the group has trained and hired 17 psychologists and 50 social workers. Partners in Health plans to hire 600 community health workers to bolster a force of 2,000 already tending to nutrition and child health issues to improve detection of depression and stress.

International Medical Corps, which provides training to Haitian psychiatrists and social workers, plans to recruit 75 volunteers to educate people on mental health issues.

The government's reconstruction plan, presented to international donors in New York in March, envisions revamping the primary healthcare system by building more hospitals and improving access to care in areas far from the capital. But it makes no specific mention of mental health.

For now, the task at hand is getting people like Jeanne Paul and James Dort through their personal crises. Paul, the woman chanting Psalms nonstop, had been treated for mental illness and had improved, her sister said. Since the earthquake, she's had a relapse.

Dort, 28, says that since Jan. 12, his heart often suddenly pounds furiously.

Hughes and a Haitian psychologist, Kettie Archer, guide Dort through a series of questions about his life, the earthquake, his feelings. They demonstrate a breathing exercise that can help him relax and invite him to a meeting for people with quake-related anxieties.

Hughes concludes with a diagnosis that is familiar these days.

“There are a lot of people who have their hearts going fast,” he tells Dort. “What you have is not abnormal. You're not mad.”

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When a (Health Care) Fine is a (Health Care Price): Israeli Day Cares and HCR

posted by Dave Hoffman

Fortune reports that during the health care debate, AT&T, Verizon, Caterpillar, and John Deere all  produced internal documents considering whether it made sense to stop providing health insurance and simply pay the fine:

AT&T produced a PowerPoint slide entitled “Medical Cost Versus No Coverage Penalty.” A document prepared for Verizon by consulting firm Hewitt Resources stated, “Even though the proposed assessments [on companies that do not provide health care] are material, they are modest when compared to the average cost of health care,” and that to avoid costs and regulations, “employers may consider exiting the health care market and send employees to the Exchanges.”  . . .

Kenneth Huhn, vice president of labor relations at Deere, said in an internal email that his company should look at the alternatives to providing health benefits, which “would amount to denying coverage and just paying the penalty,” and that he felt he already had the ability to make this change under his company’s labor agreement. Caterpillar felt it would have to give “serious consideration” to the penalty option.

You might see these documents as posturing, whimsical make-work*, or simply good business planning.   But I tend to think about this as an example of the Israeli day care problem: when you put prices on conduct that previously was enforced through social norms, you may increase its incidence.** This phenomenon, incidentally, would appear to be even more important when considering how to enforce the individual mandate .

*The whimsy story is supported by the unwillingness of the firms to stand behind their analysis today.

**Of course, you might object that employer-provided health insurance results from market incentives, not social practice, but I’m not so sure those concepts are easily segregated.

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Via the American Journal of Public Health: Socioeconomic Disparities in Health in the United States: What the Patterns Tell Us. The abstract:

Objectives. We aimed to describe socioeconomic disparities in the United States across multiple health indicators and socioeconomic groups. 

Methods. Using recent national data on 5 child (infant mortality, health status, activity limitation, healthy eating, sedentary adolescents) and 6 adult (life expectancy, health status, activity limitation, heart disease, diabetes, obesity) health indicators, we examined indicator rates across multiple income or education categories, overall and within racial/ethnic groups. 

Results. Those with the lowest income and who were least educated were consistently least healthy, but for most indicators, even groups with intermediate income and education levels were less healthy than the wealthiest and most educated. Gradient patterns were seen often among non-Hispanic Blacks and Whites but less consistently among Hispanics. 

Conclusions. Health in the United States is often, though not invariably, patterned strongly along both socioeconomic and racial/ethnic lines, suggesting links between hierarchies of social advantage and health. 

Worse health among the most socially disadvantaged argues for policies prioritizing those groups, but pervasive gradient patterns also indicate a need to address a wider socioeconomic spectrum—which may help garner political support. 

Routine health reporting should examine socioeconomic and racial/ethnic disparity patterns, jointly and separately.

Somehow, years ago I became aware of this issue: that health is closely correlated with the gap between rich and poor. 

I deal with the issue sporadically on my blog Bridging the Income Gap, and occasionally in articles in The Tyee. But it deserves attention here as an "underlying medical condition" in public health. I suspect it's a major reason why indigenous peoples are more likely to catch influenza, and to die of it.

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Health Net Beats, Raises Guidance

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(NYSE:HNT) reported first quarter fiscal 2010 earnings per share (EPS) of 16 cents compared to earnings of 21 cents in the first quarter of 2009. The reported quarter included $37.7 million in pretax losses related to the divestment of the Northeast business to UnitedHealth (NYSE:UNH) in December 2009 and $14.5 million in pretax losses arising from cost cuts and other expenses. Excluding these items, the company’s EPS came in at 47 cents, surpassing the Zacks Consensus Estimate by a penny.

Health Net reported a 13.1% year-over-year decline in revenues to $3.4 billion. The primary reason for the decline was reduced membership.

The company earns revenues in the form of health plan service premiums, government contracts, northeast administrative services fees, net investment income and administrative services, fees and other income. Health Net continues to serve members of the Northeast business under an agreement with UnitedHealth, the income from which has been shown separately.

Health plan services premium, accounting for approximately 74% of total revenues during the quarter, declined 19.5% year-over-year to $2.5 billion. Revenues from government contracts increased 6.6% to $809 million during the reported quarter. At the end of the first quarter of 2010, total health plan enrollment in Health Net’s Western health plans declined 2.6% to 3 million members in 2009.

Total commercial enrollment declined 10.5% to 1.4 million members. While enrollment in the Medicaid (873,000 members) and Medicare PDP plans (457,000 members) recorded a year-over-year increase of 10.1% and 1.8%, respectively, enrollment in Medicare Advantage plans (218,000 members) declined marginally.

Medical care ratio (MCR) for Health Net’s health plan services declined 20 basis points (bps) to 87.5% during the quarter compared to 87.7% in the year-ago period. In addition, the commercial MCR in the company’s Western health plans declined 20 bps.

Health Net has raised its EPS guidance for 2010. The company has also provided a detailed break-up of its health plan enrollment expectations. While enrollment in the Commercial (down 1%-2%) and Medicare Advantage (down 2%-3%) plans are likely to decline, enrollment in Medicaid (up 5%-6%) and PDP (up 1%-2%) plans are likely to go up.  Health Net expects revenues in the range of $13 – $13.5 billion and adjusted EPS in the range of $2.37 – $2.47, up from the earlier guidance of $2.32 – $2.42.

 

 

While she discussed her recent trips to Haiti and Mexico, and touted her national campaign to combat childhood obesity, Mrs. Obama spent a good part of her remarks lauding her husband's accomplishments.

“This man is working hard,” she told audience at the Washington Hilton.

The first lady praised Mr. Obama for getting health care legislation passed and credited him with putting Americans back to work and getting the economy back on track.

“While a lot of folks are still hurting… we are finally heading in the right direction. Our economy is growing again instead of shrinking,” she said to rumbling applause. “We have achieved all of this and more in just the first 15 months. So if this is what we can do in 15 months, just imagine what we can achieve in the next 15 months.”

The first lady's remarks echoed a statement by her husband earlier in the day, when – flanked by his economic team – Mr. Obama said Friday's jobs report delivered encouraging news. “We now know that the economy has been growing for the better part of a year. And this steady growth is starting to give businesses the confidence to expand and to hire new people,” the president proclaimed. “These numbers are particularly heartening when you consider where we were a year ago, with an economy in freefall.”

The Labor Department announced Friday that 290,000 jobs were created in April, the biggest monthly total in four years. But the unemployment rate climbed from 9.7 percent to 9.9 percent, which the Republican National Committee calls “unacceptably high.”

“The American people will not accept Obama's 'new normal' that includes high unemployment rates coupled with destructive policies that will put additional restrictions and taxes on the very businesses that will help create jobs,” RNC Chairman Michael Steele said in a statement. “President Obama's policies have only served to do further damage to the economy by increasing our nation's debt and increasing the taxpayer's burden.”

 

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