Good Health is Your Greatest Wealth……Virgil
Supreme Court justices battled Wednesday over the fate of US President Barack Obama’s health care reforms, with liberals fighting to salvage the rest of the law if a key provision is declared unconstitutional.
(Reuters) – Regulators need to crack down on auditors who fail to warn investors and the public before corporations fail, investors told the main watchdog for U.S. auditors on Wednesday. Most big companies bailed out by the government in the 2007-2009 financial crisis had clean bills of health from their auditors and no auditors have been disciplined over this, investors told the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board at a meeting in Washington. …
Cancer deaths in the United States continued to decline over the past decade, said a yearly report on US cancer statistics released Wednesday.
Half of all cancers could be prevented if people just adopted healthier behaviors, US scientists argued on Wednesday.
(Reuters) – A program to pay hospitals bonuses for hitting key performance measures, or dock them if they miss, failed to improve the health outcomes of patients, according to a large, long-term study. The study could lead to a re-examination of financial incentives in healthcare, as policymakers seek ways to reward results rather than paying doctors and other providers for each service they provide, such as a diagnostic test. Such an incentive program for hospitals is a key provision of the U.S. healthcare overhaul law that is being challenged this week before the Supreme Court. …
WEDNESDAY, March 28 (HealthDay News) — The obesity rate among Mexican-American adults aged 20 to 74 increased from about 21 percent to nearly 35 percent between 1982 and 2006, a new federal report reveals.