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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...

Health maintenance organization plans are doing a little better than other plans at holding down health care costs – but not much better.  Read more...

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...

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.   Read more...

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...

Guess how many taxes are in this bill??!!  Read more...

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...

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...

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...

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...

So, the premise is that we will give 48 million people enhanced health coverage that typically costs an employer close to $10,000 annually, for free, and it will not increase the deficit. It will all come from internal savings and taxing the rich!  Read more...

WASHINGTON – No, maybe he can't. President Barack Obama, who insisted he would succeed where other presidents had failed to fix the nation's health care system, now concedes the effort may die in Congress.  Read more...

WASHINGTON — President Obama will put forward comprehensive health care legislation intended to bridge differences between Senate and House Democrats ahead of a summit meeting with Republicans next week, senior administration officials and Congressional aides said Thursday.   Read more...

WASHINGTON – Chastened by the Democratic Senate loss in Massachusetts, President Barack Obama and congressional allies signaled Wednesday they may try to scale back his sweeping health care overhaul in an effort to at least keep parts of it alive.  Read more...

WASHINGTON -- For all the hue and cry over a government takeover of health care, it's happening anyway.   Read more...

Retail clinics, whose growth has failed to live up to their initial hype, are seeing an opportunity to expand, thanks to health system reform.  Read more...

WASHINGTON — Fearing that health insurance premiums may shoot up in the next few years, Senate Democrats laid a foundation on Tuesday for federal regulation of rates, four weeks after President Obama signed a law intended to rein in soaring health costs.   Read more...

The future of ObamaCare is unfolding here: runaway spending, price controls, even limits on care and medical licensing.  Read more...

Depending on your medical needs, you have several levels of health care available, from relatively inexpensive retail clinics to lifesaving, but expensive, emergency rooms.  Read more...

President Obama struck a deal with labor leaders and others Jan. 14 to increase the thresholds of the proposed 40% health care plan excise tax for family plans valued at $23,000 to $24,000 and individual plans from $8,500 to $8,900, delay the effective date of the tax by five years for collectively bargained plans and public employers, and make dental and vision plans exempt starting in 2015.  Read more...