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Health Insurers Receive Multiple Gifts in Year-End Spending Package
"One of the two measures that make up the $1.4 trillion spending package will completely repeal the long-reviled health insurer fee starting in 2021 ... The legislation also includes two provisions to that could stabilize the [ACA] exchanges by thwarting any attempts to ban silver loading or auto-reenrollment."
AISHealth
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The Smartwatch Won't Replace Your Doctor
"[A]mong those who signed up for the study, wore the watch and got a health alert, almost 80 percent ignored it. Of the 450 participants who returned patches, atrial fibrillation was confirmed in 34 percent, or 153 people. Those 153 are about 0.04 percent of the 420,000 participants. This doesn't mean that the Apple device failed. It probably led some participants to be diagnosed sooner than they might have.
How many, and how much of a difference this made in their health, though, is debatable."
The New York Times; subscription may be required
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Grappling with State vs. Federal Licensure in Telemedicine
"Fragmentary licensing makes it difficult for telemedicine providers to serve the entire country.... [A] doctor who wished to practice telemedicine across the entire United States would have to spend around $90,000 and countless hours to obtain licenses in every state -- followed by permanent effort to maintain the licenses."
Herald and News
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