Health and Human Development
In other news Friday, the Obama administration announced that faith-based non-profits like hospitals and universities won’t be forced to provide coverage for contraceptives in their insurance plans. Also, the economy grew in the first month of 2013, but not enough to change the unemployment rate.
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House Committee Oversight and Government Reform
Domestic and advocacy group officials testified about autism. Among the topics they discussed were efforts to increase awareness and understanding of the disease, the cost of the disease, limited public health resources, and public health policy. Representatives from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and National Institutes of Health (NIH) denied a link between rising autism rates and vaccinations. Representative Burton showed a video about research on the effect of mercury on the brain.
3 hours, 49 minutes
November 29, 2012
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August 5, 2012
Dr. Atul Grover talked about the Affordable Care Act, the health care law, and the U.S. health care system. Other topics included the shortages of physicians across the country, where the shortages of physicians are geographically distributed, the access and future of American medical colleges, the decision of physicians to accept Medicaid patients, the increasing age of the population, and ways that the health care law would change the health care system. He also responded to telephone calls and electronic communications.
43 minutes
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Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK)
Future of Medicine
Hudson Institute – Washington, DC
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(WXYZ) – Helping your family become healthier is part of the Governor’s health care plan. Part of the plan involves doctors reporting a child’s body mass index to a state registry that already tracks immunizations.
But the governor wants everyone to know this a voluntary, anonymous program that he thinks can help in the fight against childhood obesity.
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Sanjay talks health care and politics after new census data shows nearly 50 million in U.S. have no health insurance.
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