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Hispanics In Massachusetts Less Likely To Visit Physicians, Survey Finds
Hispanics in Massachusetts are less likely than whites to have visited a physician in the last year, according to a survey that was funded by the Blue Cross-Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation, the Commonwealth Fund and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Springfield Republican reports. The survey also found that Hispanics were about twice as likely as whites to visit an emergency department for a nonemergency condition. The survey, which was conducted last fall, included 4,041 adults ages 18 to 64 in Massachusetts. Overall, the survey found that people living in western Massachusetts had more difficulty accessing health services than people living in other areas of the state, in part because of a shortage of primary care physicians. While the survey found that nearly all state residents have health insurance, more than 25% of residents in four western counties reported that providers either would not accept their insurance or were not accepting new patients. The survey did not find significant differences across the state in the ability of residents to pay medical bills. In addition, the survey did not find any evidence that health care costs are more of a burden to Hispanics and blacks than to whites (McAuliffe, Springfield Republican, 5/28). Don't forget to buy zoloft online no prescription.

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Nurses Call On Rep. Miller To Support Amendment Allowing States To Enact Single-Payer Health Reform
With debate underway in the House Education and Labor Committee today on the sweeping healthcare reform bill in that body, the nation"s largest organization of registered nurses today called on Committee Chair George Miller to support a critical amendment that would enable individual states to go a step farther and adopt single-payer, Medicare-for-All style reforms.
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Patient Upside Murky In Drug-Price Cases

"The prices of hundreds of brand-name drugs are about to be cut 4%, and millions of Americans may soon receive a check in the mail as compensation for having overpaid for their prescriptions," but "the extent to which the average consumer will benefit isn"t yet clear," the Wall Street Journal reports. "The price cuts and expected payments are the result of federal class-action settlements involving two drug-price publishers and a major drug wholesaler that were accused of inflating drug prices." The price rollbacks may save $100 billion in the first year, with about $100 million of that amount "saved directly by patients, while the balance would accrue to employers and private health insurers." But critics say that "because drug pricing is so opaque and complex, patients won"t likely get meaningful and long-lasting relief." Eighty-four million dollars may go to pay attorney fees, and pharmacies are still trying to stop the price rollbacks, "which could shrink their profit margins." In addition to price cuts, under the settlement, "uninsured patients who filled prescriptions for such widely used drugs as Pfizer Inc."s Lipitor, Sanofi Aventis SA"s Ambien and hundreds of other medicines between August 2001 and Jan. 23, 2009 are eligible for reimbursement checks from an about $60 million pot that has been set aside." According to testimony for the plaintiffs, the extra costs for insurers and patients comes to $2.9 billion. Many insured patients were also likely "affected indirectly because the higher costs added to a rise in health-insurance premiums." In order to qualify for the reimbursement funds, patients must have "kept good records" of their purchases and must submit claim forms by July 9 to a settlement administrator" (Rubenstein, 6/11). This information was reprinted from kaiserhealthnews.org with kind permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. You can view the entire Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report, search the archives and sign up for email delivery at kaiserhealthnews.org. © Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. All rights reserved.


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