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WHAT WE’RE READING: Defibrillators Often Out of Reach When Needed Most
- “For Defibrillators to Save Lives, People Have to Use Them,” Los Angeles Time’s “Booster Shots”: And be able to do so quickly.
- “How Obamacare Tackled the Pitfalls of Employer-Sponsored Insurance Reform,” Forbes’ “The Apothecary”: Avik Roy discusses the federal health reform law’s “Cadillac Tax.”
- “How Employer-Sponsored Insurance Drives Up Health Costs,” Forbes’ “The Apothecary”: A new study find hospitals can dictate insurer payment rates.
WHAT WE’RE READING: Fewer Companies Offer Long-Term Care Policies
- “Long-Term-Care Insurance: Who Needs It?” NPR: Baby boomers struggle with future health care costs.
- Is Your Commute Killing You?” U.S. News & World Report: Study finds the longer your commute the more likely you are to be unhealthy.
- “How To Avoid the Biggest Health Risks,” U.S. News & World Report: Mother knows best!
WHAT WE’RE READING: College Kids Want To Be Doctors When They Grow Up
- “College Students Don’t Want to be Lawyers — but do Want to be Doctors,” Washington Post’s “Wonkblog”: But only half of doctors say they would choose their career again.
- “High School Bake Sales run Afoul of Obesity Fight,” NPR: [Don't] let them eat cake!
- “A Story from Ghana: How Congress’ Help Saves Children’s Lives,” The Hill’s “Congress Blog”: Ghana’s Ambassador to the U.S. Daniel Ohene Agyekum launches a vaccination campaign.
JOBS: Health Care Industry Gains 19,000 in April
In the first four months of 2012, the health care industry has added 116,000 jobs—or 1,000 more jobs than the entire U.S. economy gained in April.
Health care’s relative strength was on display in a relatively disappointing April jobs report. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ monthly release, the nation added 115,000 positions in April, well below the consensus expectation of 160,000 new jobs.
However, BLS revised up its previous reports, adding another 53,000 jobs to its February and March estimates. And the health care industry gained another 19,000 jobs in April, which is below the sector’s moving average of about 27,000 new jobs per month, but still keeps the industry on pace for its biggest year since 2008.
– by Dan Diamond, Managing Editor, Daily Briefing
Note: For more about the monthly jobs report and an illustration on “Where the Jobs Are,” click here.
WHAT WE’RE READING: Baby Geniuses
- “Insights From the Youngest Minds,” New York Times: Like taking candy from a baby? Not so fast.
- “Really? To Lower Your Risk of Diabetes, Eat Breakfast,” New York Times‘ “Well”: Pop-Tarts and Krispy Kreme don’t count.
- “What Health Wonks Can Learn From Doggycare,” Washington Post‘s “Wonkblog”: Perks of the pet insurance market.
WHAT WE’RE READING: Not Your Average Recyclable
- “Add Kidneys to List of Things That can be Recycled,” AP/Sacramento Bee: Though they probably should stay separate from your cardboard and plastic bottles.
- “Inside Medicine: Patients Should be Told When Doctors Err,” Sacramento Bee: Michael Wilkes argues that ignorance is not bliss.
- “Stephen Colbert Has All the Health Tips You’ll Need To Live Forever,” Gawker: Try eating through a feeding tube.
WHAT WE’RE READING: What’s in Your Dinner?
- “Does Giving Antibiotics to Animals Hurt Humans?” USA Today: How your food can affect you.
- “A History of Antibiotic use in Farm Animals,” U-T San Diego: FDA’s fight for antibiotic free farm animals.
- “Stanford Web Tool Helps Patients Weigh Cancer Risk,” San Francisco Gate Chronicle: Evaluating the odds.
WHAT WE’RE READING: Lawmakers Put Facts Aside in the Health Care Debate
- “Facts are the First Casualty of Healthcare Fight,” Miami Herald: From health care mandates to broccoli mandates, lawmakers debate it all.
- “Autistic and Seeking a Place in an Adult World,” New York Times: “Transition to adulthood” programs help autistic students learn valuable life skills.
AHL’s Top Story: Obama, Democrats Defend Health Reform Law; Biden Expresses Confidence in Favorable High Court Ruling
President Obama has not publicly commented on last week’s Supreme Court oral arguments on the constitutionality of the federal health reform law, but he defended the overhaul during a pair of re-election events in Vermont on Friday, USA Today‘s “The Oval” reports.
At a campaign fundraiser in Burlington, Obama touted some of the consumer benefits of the health reform law and noted, “I said that we would get a health care law that would provide near universal coverage so that people don’t have to go bankrupt when they get sick in this country; we got it passed” (Jackson, “The Oval,” USA Today, 3/31).
Smart Analyses of Monday’s Oral Arguments
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What I Saw at the Supreme Court’s Hearing on the Health Care Law
Henry Aaron offers his impressions on the first day of the Supreme Court’s hearing on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Aar… -
The Volokh Conspiracy ” Is the Individual Mandate Really a Mandate?
In today’s argument, Chief Justice Roberts had an interesting series of questions on a matter that we debated a bit here at the blog: If … -
Health Reform Debate Arrives in the Supreme Court: Why It’s Not About Obama
Listening to the heated rhetoric coming out of Washington, you may think the three days of health care arguments at the Supreme Court tha… -
John Roberts May Have Tipped His Hand On ‘Obamacare’ Reasoning
Health Care Before The Court In a little-noticed exchange Monday, conservative Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts may have tipped h… -
Argument recap: Moving on to the mandate : SCOTUSblog
Argument recap: Moving on to the mandate Analysis When Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., commented at the end of Monday’s first day of … -
What the Supreme Court Could Do About Obamacare, Explained
The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments concerning the constitutionality of Obamacare-a.k.a. the Affordable Care Act, or ACA-beginning… -
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