{"id":1420,"date":"2010-01-29T17:37:15","date_gmt":"2010-01-29T22:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/friday-january-29-news-roundup-aha-and-acc-take-part-in-the-healthcare-debate-long-term-study-of-icds\/"},"modified":"2011-07-19T17:45:05","modified_gmt":"2011-07-19T21:45:05","slug":"friday-january-29-news-roundup-aha-and-acc-take-part-in-the-healthcare-debate-long-term-study-of-icds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/2010\/01\/29\/friday-january-29-news-roundup-aha-and-acc-take-part-in-the-healthcare-debate-long-term-study-of-icds\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday January 29 News Roundup: AHA and ACC Take Part in the Healthcare Debate, Long-Term Study of ICDs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Healthcare Reform:<\/strong> American Heart Association CEO Nancy Brown issued <a href=\"http:\/\/americanheart.mediaroom.com\/index.php?s=43&amp;item=937\">a statement on Obama&#8217;s State of the Union Address<\/a>. Brown emphasized the AHA&#8217;s &#8220;strong commitment to comprehensive reform,&#8221; noting that &#8220;nearly seven million heart\u00a0disease and stroke patients do not have health insurance coverage and in many cases forgo necessary medical care to pay bills and support their families.&#8221; &#8220;Failure cannot be an option,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>The American College of Cardiology has also been busy. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.acc.org\/advocacy\/advoc_issues\/ACCAdvocate01272010.htm\">ACC Advocate<\/a>\u00a0summarizes the college&#8217;s various activities relating to healthcare reform and the college&#8217;s fierce opposition to the Medicare cuts in cardiology fees. <a href=\"http:\/\/lewinreport.acc.org\/\">ACC CEO Jack Lewin blogs frequently<\/a> about healthcare reform, the Medicare cuts, and other activities, including a recent &#8220;fascinating meeting with Newt Gingrich.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>ACC and AHRQ Study ICDs: <\/strong>Separately, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ahrq.gov\/news\/press\/pr2010\/accicdpr.htm\">the ACC and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) announced<\/a> that they were supporting, in conjunction with the NHLBI, a $3.5 million research project to &#8220;study the long-term benefits and risks of implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) in patients at risk of death from ventricular fibrillation.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Healthcare Reform: American Heart Association CEO Nancy Brown issued a statement on Obama&#8217;s State of the Union Address. Brown emphasized the AHA&#8217;s &#8220;strong commitment to comprehensive reform,&#8221; noting that &#8220;nearly seven million heart\u00a0disease and stroke patients do not have health insurance coverage and in many cases forgo necessary medical care to pay bills and support [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}