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FDA Warns Web Sites Against Marketing Fraudulent H1N1 Flu Virus Claims
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is enforcing the laws that protect consumers from illegal products marketed through the Internet that claim to diagnose, prevent, mitigate, treat or cure the 2009 H1N1 flu virus.
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Oregon House Passes Preemptive Health Reform Bills
The Oregon House of Representatives passed two health reform bills that a leading Democratic lawmakers says will help Oregon "fit into whatever happens on the national scale," the Portland Oregonian reports. One bill would tax insurers and hospitals more than $300 million over two years to provide coverage to an additional 115,000 Oregonians. These funds would "leverage nearly $1 billion in federal Medicaid matching money." The second measure would create an Oregon Health Authority to replace an existing Department of Human Services, but with a broader mandate to track health care claims data and harness consolidated purchasing power to "pressure insurers and hospitals to use evidence based care." State officials say the measure "would create an estimated 3,600 high-paying jobs in hospitals, medical clinics and other areas" (Graves, 6/8).
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Many Washington State Hospitals Skimp On Required Charity Care

"As the recession has cost more people their jobs and their health insurance, local hospitals have seen more patients show up with no way to pay," reports KUOW, a Washington State public radio station. "Hospitals in Washington are required to provide free care to anyone living below the poverty line, if they ask for it. But some hospitals give more freely than others." Leonard Bass, who was homeless five years ago, regularly visits a clinic operated by Haborview Medical Center for diabetes treatment and is one such patient. "Harborview (a county-owned hospital) provides far more health care to the poor and uninsured than any other hospital in the state," and patients like Bass believe the center is their only choice for care. However, all nonprofit hospitals in the state face the same requirement for providing treatment to people in Bass" financial situations. He is unemployed, uninsured, and living in poverty. But, in the Pudget Sound region, there are only three hospitals that provide more than 2 percent of their care to the poor. Ken Berger, of Charity Navigator, a group that rates nonprofit performance, said "The average nonprofit hospital in many parts of the country, the amount of charity care they (provide) is abysmal, it"s like 2.5 percent, and you"re considered the best in your class" (Ryan, 7/10). This information was reprinted from kaiserhealthnews.org with kind permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. You can view the entire Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report, search the archives and sign up for email delivery at kaiserhealthnews.org. © Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. All rights reserved.


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