Health Headlines for Monday, April 30

Seeing results: Implementing DSRIP program has benefited north country

Watertown Daily Times

More than halfway through their timeline, those carrying out the goals of the Delivery System Reform Incentive Payment program in Northern New York have made steady progress.

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There’s a genuine solution to our health-care problem

Washington Post

No doubt about it: Health care is a vexing political problem.

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How states propose raising money from opioid sales

Associated Press

State lawmakers across the country have been considering taxing prescription opioids. A look at what they would do:

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Bring back short-term health insurance plans — it’s only fair

The Hill

Last October President Trump issued an executive order intended to increase choices for consumers who purchase their health insurance in the individual market and for whom the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) locked them into expensive, government dictated, one size fits all plans.

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Excellus members, did you forget to cash that check?

Democrat & Chronicle

Health care costs too much to leave any of your money on the table.

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