What's New: 2006

December 29, 2006

December Newsletter Posted

• Massachusetts Blue Cross Blue Shield to Collect Mental Health Information
• Massachusetts Universal Health Insurance Raises Questions about Patient Privacy
• What Every Worker Should Know about Electronic Medical Records
• President’s Message: Looking Ahead

November 14, 2006

(November Newsletter Posted)

• National Survey: Americans’ Views on Health Care and Options for Reform

November 3, 2006

October Newsletter Posted

• How to Ensure Americans Are Informed of Their Right to Reject Routine HIV Screening
• AMA Adopts Mandatory Insurance Requirement
• Universal Health-Care Roundup: Two States Pass, Seven States Abandon Universal Health-Care Bills in 2006

 

October 19, 2006

September Newsletter Posted

• Health Privacy Roundup
• Patient Privacy Group Denounces Blue Cross Blue Shield Plan to Disclose De-identified Data of 79 Million Enrollees
• Congress Considers Important Health Privacy Legislation: Share Your Views
• Questions to Consider Regarding Universal Health Care

 

August 26, 2006

August Newsletter Posted

• Virginia Teen Claims Victory, Right to Refuse Chemotherapy Affirmed
• What Every American Should Know about Mandatory Universal Health Insurance
• Is Health Insurance to Blame for Spiraling Medical Costs?
• Reminder: Submit Your Comments on Upcoming National Health Reform by August 31!

August 18, 2006

July Newsletter Posted

• Family Challenges State’s Medical Orders for Teenage Son, Receives Support from Virginia Attorney General
• Federal Government Funds Random Home Health Checkups
• Institute of Medicine Reports that Medication Errors Harm 1.5 Million Patients Annually
  
  

July 21, 2006

June Newsletter Posted

• President Bush and Congress Need Your Input on National Health Reform
• What We Cannot Afford...
• Mandatory Health Insurance: Health Care by Force
• Informed Consent Waived in Public Health Emergency

 

June 4, 2006

May Newsletter Posted

• Legislation Introduced to Digitize Federal Employee Health Records
• Congress Set to Override State Medical-Privacy Rights
• Medicare Costs Projected to More than Double in Next 10 Years

April 11, 2006

April Newsletter Posted

• How Massachusetts's Health Plan Affects Privacy and Liberty
• The Massachusetts Health-Insurance Bill Mandates New Taxes and Privacy Invasions
• Online Analysis of the Massachusetts Health Plan

April 10, 2006

What Every American Should Know about the Massachusetts Mandatory Health-Insurance Legislation

April 9, 2006

March Newsletter Posted

• Body Snatching? Why We Need Informed Consent and True Health Privacy Rights
• National Health Spending to Double by 2015
• Amish Drive Down Medical Costs

April 4, 2006

February Newsletter Posted

• Congress to Gut State Medical-Privacy Laws?
• $5.5 Billion in 2007 Budget for Building a "Federal Health Architecture"
• Comptroller General Urges Congress to Re-examine Federal Health Spending

February 11, 2006

January Newsletter Posted

• Universal Insurance Mandate Leads to Political Interference in Private Health-Care Decisions
• New York City Begins Tracking and Monitoring Diabetics
• New Study Finds Medicare's Administrative Costs Are Underestimated

February 8, 2006 (posted February 10)

Congress Could Vote Soon on a Bill that Abolishes State Health-Privacy Rights: Act Now to Voice Your Own Opinion about H.R. 4157.

January 9, 2006

December Newsletter Posted

• Who's Going to Direct Your Health-Care Choices?
• Survey Shows Most Americans Are Concerned about Health Privacy
• Wired for Health Care Quality Act Deeply Flawed