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Doctor Shortage And Disparities After Reform Examined, Nurses Prepare For Changing Role
A former Clinton administration official said last week that there aren"t enough doctors in America to handle the increase in patients if health reform covers more uninsured, NPR reports.
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H1N1 Confirmed In Three More African Countries; Cambodia, Indonesia Confirm First Cases
The H1N1 (swine flu) virus has reached the sub-Saharan African countries of Cape Verde, Ethiopia and Ivory Coast, according to the WHO, the AP/Boston Herald reports. Last week, South Africa became the first country in the region to confirm a 12-year-old, who had returned from the U.S., tested positive for the H1N1 virus.
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Dozens Arrested In National Medicare Fraud Bust
The Associated Press reports: "Federal authorities arrested more than 30 suspects, including doctors, and were seeking others in a major Medicare fraud bust Wednesday in New York, Louisiana, Boston and Houston, targeting scams such as "arthritis kits" - expensive braces that many patients never used. More than 200 agents worked on the $16 million bust that included 12 search warrants at health care businesses and homes across the Houston area, where the bulk of the arrests were made. Federal authorities say those businesses were giving patients "arthritis kits," which were nothing more than expensive orthotics that included knee and shoulder braces and heating pads. Patients told authorities they were unnecessary and many never even received them. But health care clinic owners billed between $3,000 to $4,000 for each kit. ... In some cases, clinic owners billed patients who were dead when they allegedly received the items" (Kennedy, 7/29).
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New Survey Shows Americans Spend $34 Billion On Alternative Treatments

"While Americans may complain about the high cost of health care, they"re still willing to shell out roughly $34 billion a year out-of-pocket on alternative therapies that aren"t covered by insurance, a new study shows," USA Today reports. Spending on the complementary and alternative therapies has increased by 25 percent in the last decade, according to the study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institutes of Health (Szabo, 7/30). "An estimated 38 percent of adults use some form of CAM to treat a variety of disease and conditions, the Washington Post reports. "Critics say that despite the increasing popularity of these treatments, very little good research has been done to validate their usefulness and the studies that have been done have largely found them to be ineffective. Some dietary supplement products have been found to be dangerous. The Food and Drug Administration, for example, issued a warning earlier this week not to use some dietary supplements sold as body-building products because they might cause liver and kidney problems" (Stein, 7/30). 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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