http://mediamatters.org This link is for use by RSS-enabled software to retrieve Media Matters items matching the term: Health Care en-US Copyright 2009, Media Matters for America http://mediamatters.org/research/200911230011 Fox & Friends that "what we see now in the Senate bill is the Senate saying that if you get an A or a B, then it's gonna be paid for. If you get a C, it's not gonna be paid for." In fact, the bill requires only that insurers provide coverage for screenings that receive A or B recommendations from the task force; it says nothing about whether insurers may or may not cover other categories of recommendations.]]> http://mediamatters.org/research/200911230011 Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:31:19 EST http://mediamatters.org/blog/200911220009 http://mediamatters.org/blog/200911220009 Sun, 22 Nov 2009 15:24:50 EST http://mediamatters.org/research/200911220008 Fox News Sunday, host Chris Wallace falsely claimed that it's a "fact" that the House and Senate health care bills direct the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force to "determine what services, what tests, screening, are covered and aren't covered," and asked whether that amounts to "government rationing." In fact, the bills require insurers to implement task force recommendations in favor of specific preventive care, but they are not required to adopt those that recommend against preventive screening.]]> http://mediamatters.org/research/200911220008 Sun, 22 Nov 2009 15:13:31 EST http://mediamatters.org/blog/200911220001 http://mediamatters.org/blog/200911220001 Sun, 22 Nov 2009 07:11:59 EST http://mediamatters.org/research/200911210007 prohibits the use of federal funds to provide coverage for abortions that are currently restricted under Hyde, and requires segregation of non-federal funds from federal funds to pay for those procedures in a manner similar to that used in many states that cover such abortions under the federally subsidized Medicaid program.
]]> http://mediamatters.org/research/200911210007 Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:47:02 EST http://mediamatters.org/research/200911200061 http://mediamatters.org/research/200911200061 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:47:52 EST http://mediamatters.org/research/200911200058 Special Report host Bret Baier falsely claimed that recently released cervical cancer screening guidelines were promulgated by a "federal panel," adding that those guidelines "open the door to this conversation about rationing." Additionally, Mara Liasson suggested that that the Senate health care reform bill would implement a task force's recommendations for breast cancer screenings when "writing the basic health care package that insurers who participate in these exchanges are going to offer."
]]> http://mediamatters.org/research/200911200058 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:53:23 EST http://mediamatters.org/research/200911200032 http://mediamatters.org/research/200911200032 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:19:02 EST http://mediamatters.org/research/200911200028 http://mediamatters.org/research/200911200028 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:22:57 EST http://mediamatters.org/research/200911200026 http://mediamatters.org/research/200911200026 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:43:27 EST http://mediamatters.org/research/200911200024 New York Post column, Fox News contributor Dr. Marc Siegel cited task force recommendations against regular mammograms for some women to fearmonger that "under ObamaCare, guidelines will quickly become mandates" and that "[a]ll the major 'reform' bills create lots of new panels and other bureaucrats empowered to suggest things that doctors shouldn't do." But under Senate and House health care reform bills, insurers are required only to implement task force recommendations in favor of specific preventive care and are not required to adopt those that recommend against preventive screening.]]> http://mediamatters.org/research/200911200024 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:36:17 EST http://mediamatters.org/research/200911200019 Special Report, chief political correspondent Carl Cameron cited the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to claim that the Senate health care bill would increase federal health care spending over 10 years and that, in the decade after 2014, "the cost nearly triples to well over 2 trillion." But Cameron ignored CBO's conclusions that the bill would reduce federal deficits in both of the next two decades and that in the second decade, the bill would not increase net federal health care spending.]]> http://mediamatters.org/research/200911200019 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:21:44 EST http://mediamatters.org/research/200911190051 http://mediamatters.org/research/200911190051 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:33:42 EST http://mediamatters.org/blog/200911190050 http://mediamatters.org/blog/200911190050 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:20:56 EST http://mediamatters.org/research/200911190040 http://mediamatters.org/research/200911190040 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:41:31 EST