Stop here for this week’s health care news links from across the country.
Reuters: ‘Insurers push Obamacare payment deadline to late January’
Kaiser Health News: ‘The Health Law Takes Effect: A Consumer’s Guide’
New York Times: ‘Consumers Start Using Coverage Under Health Law ‘
Gallup: ‘U.S. Uninsured Still Rate Exchange Experience Negatively ‘
New York Times: ‘Emergency Visits Seen Increasing With Health Law ‘
Bloomberg: ‘Obamacare Medicaid Expansion to Worsen Hospital ER Burden’
Reuters: ‘Over 2.1 million have signed up for Obamacare: officials’
U.S. News & World Report: ‘Obamacare Hasn’t Caused a Shift to Part-Time Work … Yet’
Wall Street Journal: ‘Nasdaq: Obamacare doesn’t drag health-care stocks; biotech up 60%’
Health Care Payer News: ‘Higher medical costs, not ACA, boost premiums’
NBC News: ‘Health spending rose slowly in 2012 — thanks to recession, not Obama’
Associated Press: ‘U.S. marks 4 straight years of slowing health costs’
New York Times: ‘When Doctors ‘Google’ Their Patients’
Forbes: ‘Insurers, Pharmacies See Opportunity In ObamaCare Enrollment Problems’
New York Times: ‘Report Finds More Flaws in Digitizing Patient Files’
Kaiser Family Foundation: ‘Health and Access to Care and Coverage for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Individuals in the U.S.’