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Home Oxygen Patients And Family Members Visit Capitol Hill To Ask Congress To Protect Medicare Home Oxygen Therapy Benefit
Asking members of Congress to support patient-focused reform of the Medicare home oxygen therapy benefit, patients and family members with the National Emphysema/COPD Association (NECA), a national advocacy organization representing patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and other lung diseases, descended on Capitol Hill this week. Patients urged members of the U.S. House to support and pass the Medicare Home Oxygen Therapy Act of 2009 (H.R. 3220), which was recently introduced.
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Hemophilia (from the Greek haima meaning blood and philia meaning friend) is an inherited medical condition where the blood does not clot properly. Essentially, hemophiliacs - people with hemophilia - lack a protein called a clotting factor that works with platelets to stop bleeding at the site of an injury. People with hemophilia tend to bleed for longer periods of time after an injury and they are more susceptible to internal bleeding.
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India To Provide Incentives For Medical Professionals To Work In Rural, Underserved Areas
In an effort to encourage medical professionals to provide services to low-income rural populations in India, Union Health and Family Welfare Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad announced an initiative that will significantly raise the salary of "doctors, specialists and para-medical staff" who elect to work in "rural, particularly far-flung and inaccessible areas," the Hindu reports.
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Debate Surrounds End-Of-Life Care Provision In Reform

A provision in the House health care reform bill to provide Medicare coverage for end-of-life care consultation spurs debate and misinformation. Politico reports: "Sean Hannity believes it. So do House Minority Leader John Boehner and Republican Whip Eric Cantor. Talk show host Fred Thompson calls it "the dirty little secret" of the health care reform debate. The focus of their ire is a provision tucked deep inside the House bill that would provide Medicare coverage for an end-of-life consultation once every five years. If a person falls ill with a life-threatening disease, more frequent sessions would be allowed. Republicans are now using this language as a wedge between senior citizens and Democrats. Boehner and Cantor issued a statement last week saying it "may start us down a treacherous path toward government-encouraged euthanasia" - even though the concept behind the provision has been embodied in federal law since 1990 and has been promoted by Republicans and Democrats for years. The House Republican leadership statement capped days of chatter on talk radio and in the blogosphere - serving notice to AARP, Democratic lawmakers and other supporters of the health care reform bill that an under-the-radar distortion, in their view, was building steam." Politico notes: "But proponents of the end-of-life care measure say it does nothing close to what McCaughey, Thompson, Boehner and others assert. The provision would require Medicare to cover advanced care consultations for the first time, but it does not mandate individuals to take advantage of the benefit, proponents say" (Budoff Brown, 7/28). 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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