The Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield Foundation plans to announce that it is making a $1 million grant to the Indiana University School of Medicine to help fund the completion of a new medical simulation center.
Doctors often say healthcare would be better if insurers didn't interfere in medical decisions. Now some Louisville and Lexington physicians have a chance to prove it.
The union that represents patient-care technical workers at the University of California has asked the state to declare impasse and hire an independent mediator to jump-start the process. The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees represents 11,000 technical employees who provide patient care support at nine university campuses.
Doctors often say healthcare would be better if insurers didn't interfere in medical decisions, and now some physicians in Kentucky have a chance to prove it. They have designed and will run a Medicare managed-care plan, called Essence, that stresses preventive care and low out-of-pocket costs for members.
Americans could save $1.5 trillion in healthcare costs over the next decade while covering the uninsured and improving overall quality, according to a report from the Commonwealth Fund. The changes would take widespread reforms to root out inefficiency, however, and would require higher tobacco taxes and other levies.
California's Assembly has approved Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's plan for universal health insurance. The compromise legislation, which passed by a vote of 46 to 31, was hammered out by Schwarzenegger and Fabian Nunez, speaker of California's Democrat-led Assembly.