links for 2007-07-13

• Media Matters – In Sicko “fact check,” CNN’s Gupta falsely claimed his source’s “only affiliation is with Vanderbilt University”
  On the July 10 edition of CNN’s Larry King Live, CNN chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta falsely asserted that the “only affiliation” of Paul Keckley, whom Gupta had quoted criticizing the national health care systems of France, Canada, and Cuba
  (tags: healthcare news Sicko Gupta Moore fact+check lies CNN)
• Florida may be hit hard on Medicare payments – South Florida Business Journal
  Impending cuts to Medicare’s home oxygen benefit will hit Florida harder than any other state, shows a data analysis.

  A study by Avalere Health LLC found about 19,700 Florida residents would be impacted by the change. Texas is the next hardest-hit sta

  (tags: healthcare medicare Texas)
• Road to New Life After Katrina Is Closed to Many – New York Times
  Hardly any of the 77,000 rental units destroyed in New Orleans have been rebuilt, in fact, and the local and federal governments have done almost nothing to make it possible for low-income renters like Ms. Cole, who has a ninth-grade education, to return.
  (tags: GMF Katrina New+Orleans FEMA outrage trailers)

~ by SAP on 12 July 2007.