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Association needs more time for reform guidelines
6/2/2010
An association charged with shaping a key insurance regulation as part of health care reform has told the Obama administration it needs some more time. Read more...
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Buck: Employers Face Higher Benefits Bills
2/1/2010
Health maintenance organization plans are doing a little better than other plans at holding down health care costs – but not much better. Read more...
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Expanding Health Coverage and Shoring Up Medicare: Is It Double-Counting?
1/11/2010
WASHINGTON — At the heart of the fight over health care legislation is a paradox that befuddles lawmakers of both parties. Separate bills passed by the Senate and the House would squeeze nearly a half-trillion dollars from projected spending on Medicare over the next 10 years. These savings would help offset the cost of providing coverage to people who are uninsured. Read more...
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Experts say Americans getting too many medical tests, maybe even President Obama
3/12/2010
CHICAGO (AP) — Too much cancer screening, too many heart tests, too many cesarean sections. A spate of recent reports suggests that many Americans are being overtreated. Maybe even President Barack Obama, champion of an overhaul and cost-cutting of the health care system.
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Feds Explain How To Comply With Year-Old Law
2/12/2010
About 12 months after the federal government imposed children’s health program eligibility notice rules on employers, it is telling employers how to implement the rules they already were supposed to be implementing. Read more...
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FLEMING HEALTH CARE REFORM UPDATE
3/15/2010
Guess how many taxes are in this bill??!! Read more...
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Fueling the Anger of Doctors
5/3/2010
At a recent social gathering, a doctor friend who has been in private practice for almost 15 years revealed something that caused one physician to nearly choke on her drink, another to gasp in disbelief and the rest of us to stop what we were doing and gawk as if he had committed some grave social faux pas.
“I love what I do,” he announced to all of us. “I really love being a doctor.”
His wife, suddenly aware of the silence that fell upon the room, inched closer to her husband. “He really does,” she said nodding to confirm what some of the rest of us couldn’t quite believe. Read more...
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Health care ad cyclorama to clog airwaves
3/10/2010
WASHINGTON — It's not quite election season, but President Obama is on the stump, pushing his health care bill. Now, millions of dollars in political ads aimed at swaying Congress are hitting the airwaves. Read more...
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Health insurance industry wants to work with reform law
6/7/2010
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.—The health insurance industry is committed to making health care reform work despite its objections to the federal law, an executive of America's Health Insurance Plans told members of the Council of Insurance Agents & Brokers. Read more...
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Married Couples Pay More Than Unmarried Under Health Bill
1/12/2010
Some married couples would pay thousands of dollars more for the same health insurance coverage as unmarried people living together, under the health insurance overhaul plan pending in Congress. Read more...
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