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Medical Liability Reform
GREENVILLE -- Medical lawsuits are one of the driving forces behind skyrocketing health care costs. That's according to Secretary Tommy Thompson, of the US Department of Health and Human Services.
WASHINGTON -- Medicare said Thursday it would pay for counseling to help some of the nation's 4 million older smokers kick the habit.
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Health care should top Bush's agenda
Of all the issues we voters thought about during the campaign, dealing with the costs of health care was one we all are concerned about.
The nation's poverty rate declined for the first time this decade, but the number of Americans without health insurance rose to a record high of 47 million in 2006, according to Census figures released today.
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Child Health Insurance Stalls in Congress
If anything looked like a sure thing in the new Congress, it was that lawmakers would renew, and probably expand, the popular, decade-old State Children's Health Insurance Program before it expires this year.
School trip provision is "patchy" and requires £30m more of government money, according to MPs.
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Insurer seeks payments from seniors after Medicare error
Thousands of Massachusetts senior citizens with Medicare drug benefits have received automated phone calls from Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts in recent days asking them to repay up to $1,400 because Medicare failed to automatically deduct monthly premiums from their Social Security checks.
GREENVILLE -- Medical lawsuits are one of the driving forces behind skyrocketing health care costs. That's according to Secretary Tommy Thompson, of the US Department of Health and Human Services.
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Network upgrades, cots are part of USDA's pandemic plan
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is preparing for a potential pandemic with steps that include expanding the ability of employees to work remotely, plus cots, food and water in data centers in the event of a quarantine.
If anything looked like a sure thing in the new Congress, it was that lawmakers would renew, and probably expand, the popular, decade-old State Children's Health Insurance Program before it expires this year.
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Overhaul: Mandatory Coverage Is Easier Said Than Done
The idea of making coverage compulsory to help reduce the number of uninsured Americans is gaining momentum, but questions remain.
Helped by two whistle-blowers, the lawyer who beat Big Tobacco is on a new crusade -- to fight what clinics charge the uninsured
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Massachusetts Universal Care Plan Faces Hurdles
People who must pay for insurance may now be a majority of the state’s uninsured, and not all are rushing to get coverage.
SEATTLE -- Seeking better health insurance coverage for themselves, workers at one of the nation's oldest health maintenance organizations are on strike.
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Health Care Pushed to Fore By Calif. Vote
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 21 -- The universal health insurance package that one chamber of California's legislature passed this week looks a lot like the one Massachusetts not only passed but put in place a year earlier: Every resident will be required to have insurance, every employer must pitch in, and...
roundup Plus: KDE updates Linux desktop...EA to take World Cup soccer to Xbox...IBM chalks up two health care wins.
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Medicare Aims to Cut Errors in Half by 2008
Steps aimed at cutting Medicare fraud and payment errors in half over the next four years were announced by U.S. health officials on Monday.
OCTOBER 25, 2004 - Preparing for the wave of servers with multicore processors that's expected to hit data centers over the next year, Microsoft Corp.
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Patient protection laws don’t favor health providers
Despite critics who say patients’ bills of rights laws are actually designed to protect health care providers, new research published in the current issue of the American Journal of Medicine found just the opposite.
Business leaders have rounded on GPs, claiming the service they offer is "outdated" and needs overhauling.
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Widening of Health Care in States Hits Roadblocks
Though the governors of California, Illinois and Pennsylvania proposed sweeping plans to restructure health care this year, none will finish 2007 with bills passed and signed.
New guidelines restricting the patients that GPs can refer to hospital will mean cancers are missed, warn doctors.
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ADV: Health Insurance for the Self-Employed!
Affordable health, dental, and life insurance for you and your family. Ideal for self-employed, small business owners. Fill out our form for a competitive quote.
A U.S. bankruptcy judge on Thursday further put off a hearing into auto parts maker Delphi Corp.'s DPHIQ.PK request for authority to impose wage and benefit cuts on U.S. unionized workers to allow more talks.
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Democrats: More Than Health Care
A look at the policies of Senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama reveals that the candidates have actually laid out two competing economic philosophies. The fight over health insurance is just one part of their disagreement.
In what could be the most expensive decision in Medicare's history, officials say the government has decided to expand coverage of implanted heart-shocking devices for people with weakened hearts.
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Why are these premiers smiling? Pharmacare is a Trojan horse
Imagine the reaction if Prime Minister Paul Martin stood up and said the federal government no longer wants to pay for hospital costs, or for doctors' services.
Governor Bredesen today pulled the plug on TennCare -- the expanded Medicaid program that covers 1.3 million residents. Calling TennCare "a noble and worthwhile initiative," Bredesen
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No cuts for child health care programs
WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration said Wednesday it will shift up to $660 million next year to keep children from losing government-paid health insurance.
A trailblazing Chicago school starts economic education early to give inner-city black kids a leg up
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Private HMOs cost more to Medicare: study
Private insurers in the Medicare insurance program were paid 12.4 percent more by the government than the health care provided would have cost under traditional Medicare, a report released on Thursday said.
Rejected by voters and limping off stage, the Republican-led House on Friday passed a sweeping bill reviving expired tax breaks and preventing doctors from taking a big cut in Medicare payments.
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Sick of Hospital Bills
Helped by two whistle-blowers, the lawyer who beat Big Tobacco is on a new crusade -- to fight what clinics charge the uninsured
A Canadian couple fights the state for custody of their premature babies, whom they refuse transfusions.
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Ranks of uninsured grow to highest since '98
A stagnant economy and rising health care costs helped push the percentage of people in the USA without health insurance last year to 15.
New Jersey officials asked a federal judge yesterday to block new Bush administration rules that would make it harder for states to enroll middle-income kids in a popular government-subsidized health insurance program for children.
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California joins insurance probe
The investigation of alleged illegal payments in the US insurance business widens as California announces its own probe.
Helped by two whistle-blowers, the lawyer who beat Big Tobacco is on a new crusade -- to fight what clinics charge the uninsured
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Court: SF health program fine for now
A city program that provides health care to the uninsured and is partly funded by businesses can continue at least until a lawsuit challenging the program is resolved, a federal appeals court ruled.
Blog: The line has stretched around a second corner as San Franciscans await their iPhones.
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Federal govt. becoming subsidiary of drug companies
Numerous media reports have indicated big increases for Medicare and employer-sponsored health insurance premiums and for the number of Americans lacking health insurance.
Private insurers have told the Bush administration that they will not expand their role in Medicare if they have to serve large multistate regions.
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U.S. doctors warn on costly "consumer" insurance
Pediatricians in the United States on Monday warned that new high-deductible health plans risk compromising patient care, especially among poorer children, with the unintended consequence of increasing medical costs.
Executives from Nokia and Philips published an open letter today calling for the European Commission to consider scaling back, if not eliminating, imposing levies on digital recording media and playback devices, including DVRs and MP3 players. But the alternative may be a hard sell: increased DRM.
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Group: US health care worse off
American workers are paying more for their health insurance and getting less than they were four years ago, and the situation is particularly acute in several states important
New Jersey officials asked a federal judge yesterday to block new Bush administration rules that would make it harder for states to enroll middle-income kids in a popular government-subsidized health insurance program for children.
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Health Costs Rise 11.2% in 2004
Sept. 9, 2004 -- Employee-sponsored health insurance premiums rose an average of 11.2% between spring 2003 and spring 2004, now averaging just under $10,000 per year for the average worker with a family of
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton accused the Bush administration on Monday of being "asleep at the switch" and mishandling the flu vaccine shortage, which she said was part of an overall breakdown in the country's health care system.
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Health Plan Overhauled At Wal-Mart
Long criticized for its health care coverage, the retailer unveiled a plan Tuesday intended to cut employee costs, expand coverage and offer workers thousands of cheap prescription drugs.
“Overtreated,” by Shannon Brownlee, is the best description I have yet read of a huge economic problem that we know how to solve — but is so often misunderstood.
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Health Spending Exceeded Record $2 Trillion in 2006
National health spending soared above $2 trillion for the first time in 2006 and has nearly doubled in the last decade.
NEW DELHI, India _ Three months ago, Howard Staab learned that he suffered from a life-threatening heart condition and would have to undergo surgery at a cost of up to
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Healthcare vote confuses
While health experts and the population at large tried to evaluate the full meaning of a referendum question about the privatization of health facilities, that process itself took a step forward last week.
In what could be the most expensive decision in Medicare's history, officials say the government has decided to expand coverage of implanted heart-shocking devices for people with weakened hearts.
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Bush Calls Kerry Health Plan Bureaucratic Nightmare
MUSKEGON, Mich. - President Bush derided Democrat John Kerry's plan for reforming health care on Monday as a bureaucratic nightmare and contended it would cost $1.5 trillion.
Tony Blair claims the NHS is the "pride of the country", despite criticism of mismanagement and deficits.
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Medicare Premiums to Rise 17 Percent
Medicare premiums for doctor visits will rise 17 percent next year, the Bush administration said Friday. The $11.60-a-month increase is the largest in the program's 40-year-history.
The big money behind big medicine prepares to battle Michael Moore
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NY may sue federal govt over kids health care
New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer on Monday threatened to sue the federal government on charges that new regulations on children's health insurance violate an existing program that covers children from lower-income families.
Rescue workers who scoured the ruins of the World Trade Center and angry local residents on Wednesday demanded medical benefits and compensation for health problems they suffered after the September 11 attacks.
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Is an HSA Right for You?
Health savings accounts can help you reduce costs -- if you know how they work.
'The WoW is Now!' Long-term readers may well remember 2005's titanic musical battle between Drupa's 2004 song, the Glaucoma Hymn and KPMG to secure the world's worst corporate anthem title.…
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Health-Care Racial Divide Hospital-Based
Racial and ethnic disparities in health care are at least partially due to differences in care between hospitals and not racism on an individual level, a new study says.
Scrushy faces fewer counts for role in accounting scandal after grand jury consolidates old charges. WASHINGTON - A federal grand jury Wednesday consolidated charges against HealthSouth Corp.
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Conn. lawmakers seek near-universal health cover
HARTFORD, Connecticut - Four Connecticut state lawmakers proposed on Tuesday a $900 million program to bring health-care to the state's poor and uninsured, weighing in on a growing national debate over health-care reform.
The first Democratic-led Congress in a dozen years limped out of Washington last night with a lengthy list of accomplishments, from the first increase in fuel-efficiency standards in a generation to the first minimum-wage hike in a decade.
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Hospital Group Offers Plan on Health Coverage for All
A group of the largest commercial hospital chains plans to propose that individuals be required to have basic health coverage.
Some of Australia's top fund managers face big losses from the this week's 80 percent slump in Centro Properties Group shares, as several of the mall operator's rivals begin to scan its assets for possible purchases.
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Medicare Set to Rule on Expanding ICD Market
A key Medicare coverage decision, expected as early as Wednesday afternoon, could vastly expand the $4.8 billion market for devices used to resuscitate patients whose hearts are beating out of control, doctors and device maker Medtronic Inc. said on Tuesday.
It's going to be a long time before digital music downloads challenge CD sales, even in the online world. That's the conclusion of a report by market watcher Informa Media Group (IMG), published this week.
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Mental health law plan challenged
The government is facing the prospect of House of Lords defeat over plans for changes to mental health laws.
In what could be the most expensive decision in Medicare's history, officials say the government has decided to expand coverage of implanted heart-shocking devices for people with weakened hearts.
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Wal-Mart Expands Staff Health-Insurance Benefits
Wal-Mart is adding $4 generic drugs to its health insurance plans and offering lower premiums and deductibles, the third consecutive year of changes to the employee health benefits that unions have criticized.
roundup Plus: KDE updates Linux desktop...EA to take World Cup soccer to Xbox...IBM chalks up two health care wins.
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Most employers cutting retiree health care: study
Most U.S. employers are planning to further scale back health benefits offered to retirees, as companies struggle with the upward march in the cost of medical care and weigh increased contributions from government's Medicare program, a survey found.
New Jersey officials asked a federal judge yesterday to block new Bush administration rules that would make it harder for states to enroll middle-income kids in a popular government-subsidized health insurance program for children.
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High-Deductible Plans Cost More For Maternity Care
The first study of its kind has found that families typically pay much more out of pocket for maternity care under the new high-deductible health insurance plans paired with health savings accounts that have been heavily touted by President Bush and others.
Helped by two whistle-blowers, the lawyer who beat Big Tobacco is on a new crusade -- to fight what clinics charge the uninsured
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Who's Benefiting from the Medicare Drug Plan?
Most beneficiaries are satisfied, according to a new report. But Democrats point to another one showing soaring drug-company profits
Snoopy has left the building. Well, almost. MetLife Inc. , the insurance giant that employs Charlie Brown's dog in ads, is close to completing a deal to sell its State Street Research and Management investment arm to BlackRock Inc. for about $400 million. Everyone involved will be better off for it.
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Edwards' health care plan includes taxes
Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards said Sunday his plan for universal health care would require higher taxes and cost up to $120 billion per year.
Helped by two whistle-blowers, the lawyer who beat Big Tobacco is on a new crusade -- to fight what clinics charge the uninsured
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Health care spending highest in Northeast
Staying healthy is a costly business in the United States, particularly in the Northeast, government statistics show.
Blog: As part of its "Be a Better Planet" campaign, Yahoo names Hastings, Neb., the greenest city in America.
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More Hitting Cost Limit on Health Benefits
A small but growing number of American families beset by major medical problems are learning the hard way that simply having health insurance is sometimes not enough.
NEW YORK - A substantial number of "adverse events" -- many of which could have been prevented -- affect children in hospitals each year, according to a new study.
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US Medicare to Cover More Implanted Heart Devices
The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) on Tuesday proposed expanding coverage for costly devices to restore normal heart rhythms to a much broader population of heart patients.
Cigarette tax would pay for health coverage: Romney not expected to support Sen. Moore's bill. By Michael Kunzelman / News Staff Writer.
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Compromises sought on kids' health
WASHINGTON — President Bush and other critics of a $35 billion spending increase for children's health insurance say they'll support expanding coverage to families of four making as much as $62,000 a year, but they want to limit states' ability to go beyond that level.
New guidelines restricting the patients that GPs can refer to hospital will mean cancers are missed, warn doctors.
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U.S. health-plan cost growth to tick up in 2008: survey
Health plan costs are expected to rise at a slightly faster rate in 2008, after three years of flat growth, according to preliminary results of a new survey.
Kitchen table worries pushed ahead of the war in Iraq over the past month, a shift toward pocketbook issues that has gained currency as the election year dawns.
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Some Employers Are Offering Free Drugs
To reduce costs, a number of employers are giving away drugs to help workers manage chronic conditions.
Helped by two whistle-blowers, the lawyer who beat Big Tobacco is on a new crusade -- to fight what clinics charge the uninsured
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Medicare Premiums to Make Record Raise
WASHINGTON Sept. 4, 2004 - Medicare premiums for doctor visits are going up a record $11.60 a month next year. The Bush administration says the increase reflects a strengthened Medicare, while Democrats complain that seniors are being unfairly socked.
Interest rates on US 30- and 15-year mortgages rose just slightly this week following a government report of more jobs in July and August and Federal Reserve testimony that the economy "regained some traction," mortgage
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Most forego buying health insurance: study
CHICAGO -- Nine out of 10 Americans who tried to buy their own health insurance failed, either because the price was too steep or because they were denied coverage due to a current medical problem, a study said on Thursday.
Though Michigan children are healthier, black and Hispanic children are much more likely to be uninsured, in poor health and struggling to get access to care.
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Health costs of aging workers imperil state
An aging workforce, combined with the growing obesity epidemic and the high cost of medical care, could result in an epidemic of preventable illness that might cripple the region's economy, according to a study being released this morning by the New England Health Care Institute and the Boston Foundation.
NEW DELHI, India _ Three months ago, Howard Staab learned that he suffered from a life-threatening heart condition and would have to undergo surgery at a cost of up to
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Premium increase to $78.20 a month is largest in 14 years
As the Labor Day weekend began, federal health officials held a late-afternoon briefing to announce that 42 million disabled and elderly Medicare beneficiaries will be hit with the largest premium increase in 14 years.
New Jersey officials asked a federal judge yesterday to block new Bush administration rules that would make it harder for states to enroll middle-income kids in a popular government-subsidized health insurance program for children.
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Bush administration takes step toward more Medicare coverage
The nation's top health officials redrew the map of the United States on Monday to entice private insurers to offer Medicare coverage in 2006, including prescription drug benefits.
Analysis: Bush's trip has made one thing clear: Israel and the Palestinians aren't making peace anytime soon
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Health care in US ailing, claims consumer group
AMERICANS have been pouring greater and greater portions of the their salaries into health care over the past few years. And what makes most employees sick is that they are getting less and less for their money.
Areas of the health service in Wales are performing worse since being run by the Welsh assembly, a report says.
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WHO acts to reduce maternal death toll
The World Health Organization (WHO)said Wednesday that it and its partners are acting to reduce the maternal death toll of half a million women each year.
Congress is offering a raise to Medicare doctors who report how often they provide quality care, as defined by the government.
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Once Again, Trade Effort Stumbles on Subsidies
Talks collapsed when the U.S. and the European Union fell out with India and Brazil over plans to cut agricultural subsidies and tariffs.
Illinois and Wisconsin on Monday launched the country's first state-sponsored program to help residents buy cheaper prescription drugs from both Canada and Europe - despite federal laws banning the practice.
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Insurers Seek Bigger Reach in Coverage
The insurance industry planned to propose a series of steps the companies say would let more individuals obtain coverage.
But ads watchdog rubber stamps 'fair use' again Orange was cut down by advertising watchdogs today for claiming its broadband and home phone service is "unlimited" without mentioning its fair use policy.…
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$850m study gives Pill good bill of health
THE Pill does not increase the risk of breast cancer, and can reduce the risk of ovarian cancer and heart disease, according to the largest study conducted into the oral contraceptive.
Helped by two whistle-blowers, the lawyer who beat Big Tobacco is on a new crusade -- to fight what clinics charge the uninsured
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15 ills fuel rocketing health bill
A new Emory University study found that 15 medical conditions led to about half of the $200 billion rise in US health spending from 1987 to 2000.
Scrushy faces fewer counts for role in accounting scandal after grand jury consolidates old charges. WASHINGTON - A federal grand jury Wednesday consolidated charges against HealthSouth Corp.
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Efforts to change flood insurance stall
Despite promising changes, Congress has shown little enthusiasm for taking the unpopular steps that experts say are necessary to fix the nation's main flood insurance program.
SEATTLE -- Seeking better health insurance coverage for themselves, workers at one of the nation's oldest health maintenance organizations are on strike.
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In Massachusetts, test for a pioneering health plan
Its new insurance mandate kicks in July 1. Some see a model for the rest of the US.
PacifiCare Health (PHS.N: Quote, Profile, Research) on Wednesday posted a higher quarterly profit as the provider of Medicare health insurance kept control of steeply rising medical costs and added new members, pushing shares up nearly
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Medicare to Cover Cardiac Device
In what could be the most expensive decision in Medicare's history, officials say the government has decided to expand coverage of implanted heart-shocking devices for people with weakened hearts.
Cigarette tax would pay for health coverage: Romney not expected to support Sen. Moore's bill. By Michael Kunzelman / News Staff Writer.
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Doctors Recommend Universal Diabetes Testing For Pregnant Women
All pregnant women should get tested for gestational diabetes after 24 weeks of pregnancy, a federal panel says, to reduce the risk of dangerous complications for both mother and child. This isn't one of those controversial bits from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, like its recommendation that women under age 50 not get mammograms. Most obstetricians are already screening their patients for gestational diabetes. "It's something that's widely accepted," says Dr. Virginia Moyer, chair of the USPTF and vice president for maintenance of certification and quality for the American Board of Pediatrics. "But that doesn't mean it's not important." As recently as 2008, the task force said there wasn't enough evidence to recommend across the board screening for gestational diabetes. But now there's more evidence, Moyer says, as well as growing concern that the number of women who get gestational diabetes is rising. More women are overweight or obese, and more women are having babies after age 25. Both increase the risk. About 240,000 of the 4 million women who give birth each year, or about 7 percent, develop gestational diabetes. The universal screening recommendation was published Monday in Annals of Internal Medicine. And with gestational diabetes, both mother and child are at risk. "You always always have two patients with a pregnant woman," Moyer tells Shots. "We looked at both of them together." Babies born to women who have gestational diabetes tend to be bigger, and that increases their risk of injury at birth such as a broken collarbone or dislocated shoulder. Babies whose mother had gestational diabetes are more likely to grow up to be obese, and more likely to have diabetes themselves. For women, having gestational diabetes increases the risk of preeclampsia, a potentially deadly spike in blood pressure. It also increases the odds that a woman will have a cesarean section. "Collectively, all these things matter," Moyer says. "If you screen for gestational diabetes there's an opportunity to treat for it and minimize it." Since most women with gestational diabetes don't have symptoms, a glucose tolerance test is used to screen for it. Keeping blood sugar under control during pregnancy can reduce these risks, and most women can do that by monitoring the blood sugar and watching what they eat. Only rarely do they need to use diabetes drugs or insulin. Gestational diabetes usually goes away once a baby is born, but it can increase a woman's risk of diabetes not associated with pregnancy later on.
If you make it to the end of the Baucus overhaul bill, starting around page 213 you'll find a bunch of new taxes, er, fees that will be levied on various sectors of the health care economy to fund expansion of coverage. Though the figures had been telegraphed before the release of the bill, it's still something to see the annual amounts in black and white: $750 million from clinical labs, $2.3 billion from Big Pharma, and $6 billion for health insurers. Then there's the medical device industry, which gets socked with $4 billion in annual taxes, though its domestic sales are a fraction of the drug industry's. The trade group AdvaMed called the bill's tax on devices "unfair and counterproductive." Continue Reading You can judge for yourself if they have a point, but first read the backstory on the medical device negotiations gone bad, as told by The Wall Street Journal's Alicia Mundy. If the Baucus plan goes through, the calculations of what device companies owe could be complicated and a little bizarre. First off, there's a sliding scale based on annual sales and market share. Then there's an overlay based on how the Food and Drug Administration regulates the products. Allow us to explain, the agency groups devices into three classes based mainly on their potential risk. The riskiest are in Class III and include things like implantable defibrillators; Class II devices, still risky but not as much, like a CT scanner; and then the benign Class I devices, such as tongue depressors. In the Baucus bill, sales of Class I devices wouldn't count towards a company's tax burden, while those in Classes II and III would. So electric wheelchairs (Class II) would get taxed, human-powered wheelchairs (Class I) would not. Eyeglass frames, tax-free; contact lenses, taxed. We could go on like this for a while, but you get the picture, even without the help of your untaxed reading glasses.
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I damaged someone else's car and I want to pay out of pocket instead of using the insurance. What's the best way to ensure they're getting the best price on the body work that I'm paying for?
I damaged someone else's car and I want to pay out of pocket instead of the insurance. What's the best way to ensure they're getting the best price on the body work I'm paying for?
How can some one get a free tummy tuck?
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Backlash Over Mammogram Guideline Worries Evidence Advocates
Take a step back from the heated debate over when to start routine mammography and consider the broader implications for efforts, championed as part of health care overhaul, to root medical decisions in the best available science. You probably know by now about the American Cancer Society's disagreement with a federal task force's recommendation that women start routine mammograms at age 50 instead of 40. Dr. Otis Brawley, the cancer group's chief medical officer, called the guideline a "step backward" in an editorial in Thursday's Washington Post because it overestimates the risk and underestimates the benefits of mammography for fortysomething women. Read More >> Breast cancer remains the leading cause of cancer death among women age 40 to 49, claiming more than 4,000 lives a year, Brawley writes. Despite its limitations, annual mammography for women in their 40s is the best tool available to curb breast cancer deaths. What's more, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius declared the task force guidelines won't alter federal payment for mammograms. The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, she said Wednesday, "does not set federal policy, and they don't determine what services are covered by the federal government." Too bad, writes health journalist Merrill Goozner, a voice for the dissent. Of the 4,000 or so breast cancer deaths of women in their 40s annually, mammography would save 600, at the most. But to get that benefit, more than 1 million women a year would have to be screened for a decade. That sort of mass screening is expensive, and by the calculation Goozner explains in his blog post, would run more than $2 billion annually. Just think what could be done if that money was used more wisely--free mammograms for women at high risk and cancer prevention, he says. New Hampshire internist Dr. Kevin Pho, who writes and blogs prolifically, sees the backlash against the recommendation as a broader blow to work on grounding medicine in the best evidence. The mammogram mess bodes poorly for the nascent efforts to make comparative effectiveness research an important tool in health overhaul to sort worthwhile health care from the wasteful and inferior. As Pho concludes: If recommendations from an entity like the USPSTF -- as non-partisan and robust as it gets -- gets so much resistance from doctors, patients, and even the government itself, findings from a comparative effectiveness body stand absolutely no chance of changing medical practice.
When Jill Lepore investigated the history and politics of breastfeeding for the New Yorker, she went beyond whether it's OK to nurse your baby in public. Lepore writes about "the cynical politics of [breast] pump promotion," and how it has affected women in the workplace.
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With Stricter Guidelines, Do You Have High Blood Pressure Now?
You may not have had high blood pressure Sunday, but you may have it today. Even if your blood pressure hasn't changed a smidge. What's up? The rules shifted Monday. It used to be that we encouraged people to adopt healthy behavior to keep their blood pressure down but didn't label someone as having hypertension until systolic blood pressure (the top number) exceeded 140 millimeters of mercury and/or the diastolic blood pressure (the bottom number) exceeded 90 mm Hg. Lots of people watch those numbers closely. Now the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association have updated blood pressure guidelines that move the goal post for many people. If you have heart disease, chronic kidney disease or diabetes, then your target now for systolic blood pressure has moved down to 130 and for diastolic blood pressure to 80. Same goes if your 10-year risk of having a heart attack or stroke is greater than 10 percent (determined by a calculator found here). The focus on people who have a high likelihood of heart disease and stroke is an effort to maximize the health gains from risk reduction. To decide whether the blood pressure targets should change, the ACC and AHA assembled 21 experts who reviewed all the relevant studies, including a landmark study by the National Institutes of Health that supported lower target levels. In the end, they were unanimous in endorsing a lower standard, believing it would reduce risk and be worth the extra medications for people at high risk. Importantly, they did not change the standard for low-risk individuals. The big change is that we will end up labeling many more people with hypertension and recommending drug treatment for many more people, too. The hope is that more aggressive treatment will reduce life-threatening heart attacks and strokes. My colleagues and I conducted an analysis to estimate how many people would be affected. We determined that among those ages 45 to 75, an additional 15 million more people are now considered to have hypertension. Overall, a majority of people — 63 percent — in this age group would now be said to have hypertension. Among all Americans, another analysis suggests that more than 100 million have it. The new guidelines would mean 8 million more people would be recommended to start blood pressure drugs and an additional 14 million would be advised to have their current therapy increased. So what should people actually do? This guideline should guide discussions between clinicians and patients about how people feel about taking drugs, how they tolerate drugs, and which strategies fit them best. The days are pretty much over when doctors could walk into the office and tell people what to do, write a prescription and expect them to comply. Decisions about care shouldn't be edicts. When that happens patients tend to tune out and leave prescriptions unfilled. Clinicians and patients need to work collaboratively to set goals, aware of guidelines and the particular situation of each person. People vary in their preferences. Some people don't like to take pills or don't tolerate them well. Some people think that when 30 people need to take a pill for years for one person to benefit, it's a good deal; others disagree. There are many choices for blood pressure medications, and they are inexpensive; most are generics. The right choice for each individual may vary — and it may require trying a few different approaches. Particularly for people with a systolic blood pressure between 130 and 140 who are being advised to ratchet up treatment, there should be a discussion about what the reduction in risk, if achieved, would mean for them and what it would take to get there. We will need tools that help people make informed choices and customize the information to each person. It's high time to move away from suggesting that one type of medical advice should fit all — even among people with high risk, there are many individual differences. Amid the fanfare associated with the new guidelines, there are also a few things that haven't changed. In America, far too many people don't know that their blood pressure is high — and too few have had the opportunity for effective treatment even with the old standards. We need to make sure that all Americans know their blood pressure and understand their options. Moreover, there are many effective strategies to reduce blood pressure that don't involve drugs, but they are too infrequently pursued. The so-called DASH diet, even moderate physical activity, avoiding obesity and reducing stress can all be effective. They may sound mundane, but they can help people avoid having to pop pills. We need to help people appreciate the power of these approaches and make it easy for them to pursue these lifestyle strategies. Overnight, many people discovered that they are now considered to have high blood pressure. With so many people now being considered hypertensive, maybe we should start thinking of it as less of a clinic
Finally, Senator Max Baucus has released his blueprint for remaking health care. The America's Health Future Act of 2009 weighs in at 223 pages, so we know what we'll be doing for the next couple of hours. Please join us in perusing the proposal. Even though it's long, it's a so-called chairman's mark, meaning it's written in something approaching regular English instead of hardcore legislativese. Baucus, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, is supposed to brief reporters in a couple of hours on the plan. Read More >> One item we noticed right away is a section that spells out how insurance exchanges for folks to buy coverage would prevent illegal immigrants from getting federal subsidies. There was lots of noise about the lack of specifics in on this front in the House bills. Just ask Joe Wilson. Baucus's bill would require verification of personal data, including social security number and citizenship status. The exchanges would check the Department of Homeland Security on the status of legal residents who aren't citizens. The Baucus bill anticipates the bureaucratic swamp that people may have to wade through in proving their status and says: Individuals whose claims of citizenship or lawful status cannot be verified with federal data must be allowed substantial opportunity to provide documentation or correct federal data related to their case that supports their contention. That could open a whole new can of controversy.
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How Much does loestrin 24 fe cost?
It costs about $202 for 3 months supply (in the US).\nInsurance covers part of it.
No. If that were true it would be in all the newspapers. Millions of women take it.\nSomething that major would cause them to take it off the market.
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Opinions of GASTRIC BYPASS SURGERY?
I love it!!! If i had to do it again I would!!! I paid $10.00 copay for my surgery!!! And after loosing the weight I paid 200.00 for my Tummy Tuck!!!!
Saving lives is good. \n\nBut why is your 'question' posted here, in Advertising and Marketing and not in Health? Because it is an ad.\n\nThis this is not a forum for advertisements.
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How long should you wait to have sex while taking the pill ( once you take your first pill, how long should you wait to have sex without protection)
If you have sex, always have protected sex. You can still get pregnant on the pill and you never know where your partner has been.
Um, your insurance company is *supposed* to cover birth control. I don't think it's right for them not to cover it at all.\n\nI have an idea (not being sarcastic either, truthfully) call up your insurance company customer service line. Tell them that if they are not going to cover the cost of your birth control then they can pay for all of your birthing expenses and cover your baby too when it is born. That might get them singing a different tune because it is a HECK of a lot more expensive for an insurance company to have to pay thousands of dollars worth of birthing expenses, not to mention the cost of regular pregnancy checkups and ultrasounds. So you would think they would jump on a hot foot and offer you the coverage of birth control again for the much cheaper price of $50 bucks a month instead of paying the thousands of dollars if you do get pregnant while covered under their policy.
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does health insurance cover viagra
It's not fair that some health insurance companies are covering Viagra but my company doesn't cover prescription contraceptives.It's true that many health insurers started covering Viagra after men began scrambling for this impotency wonder drug and yet they don't cover contraceptives.here are 24 states that have enacted laws requiring group health insurance companies to cover prescription contraceptives if they cover other prescription drugs and devices, and other states have similar proposals pending, according to the National Women's Law Center in Washington, D.C.
As you've no doubt gathered from the TV commercials, Viagra (sildenafil) is a drug used to treat erectile dysfunction (commonly called ED or impotence) in men who either can't have or can't maintain erections. On the market since March 1998, it is now available in generic form.
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How providers, payers, employers should be fighting obesity
By addressing the root problem of obesity with structured programs, providers can help patients lose weight and very possibly avoid expensive chronic illnesses as a result. Employers and payers should incentivize healthy weight by paying for obesity care and treatment, potentially reaping substantial savings in the long term.
Two new surveys reveal physicians' thoughts about the effects of the Affordable Care Act on healthcare, and most of the sentiments aren't positive.
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Does medical insurance cover dental injury?
Does medical ins ever cover dental from an accident?
Does medical ins ever cover dental from an accident?
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NY issues guide to obesity insurance coverage
Attorney General Eliot Spitzer says the guide was developed after many consumers complained to his office that it was hard to get their health insurance to cover weight-loss treatments.
The good, the bad and the chubby SXSW Those web designers obsessed with their mashed up, CSS, AJAX injections may want to book a trip to Las Vegas and learn some lessons from fat people chowing down in the all-you-can-eat buffet.…
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YOUR MONEY-Is pet insurance worth it?
NEW YORK May 2 When my 8-month old puppy nabbed a chicken thigh bone off a plate and swallowed it whole, I was worried about many things, but the veterinarian bill was not one of them. Standing at the front counter at the emergency clinic that Sunday night, with my children tearing up next to me, I was presented an estimate of $1,500 for manual extraction - which would jump to $2,500 or more if poor Brownie needed surgery. Life or death depended on my willingness to put the tab on my credit card immediately. This is the kind of situation that insurance was made for, and I had it. So I paid the bill and submitted it later for 90 percent reimbursement, reducing my liability for this common puppy indiscretion to $150. My easy answer to whether pet insurance is worth it? Damn straight it is. Many people look at this calculus on a simple return-on- investment basis - Am I going to get out of it more than I put in? But the more pertinent question to ask is: How much are you willing to spend out-of-pocket for medical care for a pet? The actual industry term for making the opposite decision is grim: "economic euthanasia." Although Americans collectively spend more than $14 billion a year on pet care, our individual thresholds tend to be low. An annual survey of clinics by vet news website DVM360.com found that the stop treatment point for most clients was $1,433 in 2016. The reason pet insurance got started in North America in the first place was to help owners avoid making life or death decisions about pets based on their ability to pay. Dr. Jack Stephens, a veterinarian from Boise, Idaho, started the first policy in 1981 because he was haunted by a dog he had to put down because the owners could not afford treatment. Stephens founded PetsBest insurance, which now covers about 80,000 pets. That is just a fraction of the current coverage market of 170 million pets, which in itself is less than 1 percent of the total pets in North America, according to IBISWorld's 2017 market research. The biggest players in the field are Nationwide, Trupanion and PetPlan. In other countries, particularly in Europe, pet insurance has a much bigger impact, covering about 30 percent of all pets in Sweden and 23 percent in the United Kingdom. "You always think it will catch on faster," Stephens said. RISK POOLS One big issue keeping pet plans from taking off is the same thing that plagues the human health insurance market and is causing such chaos in Congress: risk pools. For insurance to work, you have to have the right mix of healthy and sick, whether it is cars, people or pets. With the right mix, companies are able to offer affordable coverage for common risks without going bankrupt. Pet insurance plans used to resemble extremely limited catastrophic health plans, with stringent coverage and limits on pre-existing conditions. But today, they are more like silver-tier human health insurance. My monthly insurance premiums for the puppy add up to about $700 annually for the top-tier plan, which includes wellness, accident, injury and prescriptions, with a $250 deductible. That was about my budget's risk limit. Because I signed up as soon as I got the dog, I was able to capture almost all of her initial puppy vaccinations, which got me to my deductible quickly. I paid just $35 for her to be spayed. After about five months, I was running slightly ahead of the cost, as the insurance had paid out more than I had paid in. The chicken bone incident put me about two years ahead. "Everyone approaches it from a return-on-investment perspective, but when you think about it, there’s no other insurance for which we do that," said Kristen Lynch, executive director of the North American Pet Health Insurance Association, the industry's trade group. There is also no other pet product that incurs the same kind of financial scrutiny, Lynch notes. Pet owners spend hundreds of dollars on toys and leashes, for example. "They constantly spend money on clipping and grooming," Lynch said. "They don’t put a limit on it. "But when it comes to vet spending, they'll say they'll wait it out," she added. (Editing by Lauren Young and Dan Grebler)
ABOUT this time last year, I wrote a piece for Thought for the Week in which I quoted the Chinese curse about “interesting times”. Since then the times have become more “interesting” and we have added terrorist attacks and a major fire. Many earlier generations would have seen these events as a punishment and would have sought of ways to appease the gods by making sacrifices and perhaps releasing a goat into the wilderness to carry our sins away — “a scapegoat”. Gradually we began to accept that our problems were of our own making and this is well expressed in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar when he wrote: “The fault lies not in the stars but in ourselves.” So what are our faults that bring these events into our lives? Our first reaction is to blame someone, make them “a scapegoat” and cast them out into the wilderness without much thought. Later we may set up an inquiry which will come up with useful observations that may be acted upon depending on the cost. Why is cost so important? Obviously we cannot spend what we have not got but really the question is where are our priorities? Terrorist acts are designed to create fear, panic and to disrupt our way of life. Ideally to cause us to seek acts of revenge which can be used to excuse further terrorist attacks which could in time develop into a war. Resistance to terrorism is best made by preventative measures which is being done but keeping in mind Christ's commandment to love our enemies. Likewise when spending money, first priorities must be health and safety and not our material standard of living. Consider the parable of the rich farmer who, having had a very good harvest, planned to live in comfort without realising his end was near when wealth would count for nothing.
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Diabetes could cripple health budgets, says expert
Europe's growing diabetes epidemic could cripple healthcare budgets in coming decades, particularly in eastern countries, an expert warned on Thursday.
Financial auditors are to launch another inquiry into the £6.8bn NHS IT upgrade project.
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Pension Providers May Pay More for Insurance
The Bush administration Monday outlined a series of steps to shore up the government's pension insurance agency, proposing to impose tighter funding rules on employers and force them to pay substantially more for federal insurance.
Comment is free: Peter Hain: Labour wants welfare to help people work, Tories want it to be punitive
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UK 'major heart disease spender'
The UK spends more per person on treating heart disease than any other country in Europe, figures show.
A couple's ability to access IVF on the NHS is a complete lottery, according to a new report.
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Latham releases $300-mil aged care policy
MARK COLVIN: Meanwhile, the Opposition leader has marked the end of three days' campaigning in Brisbane with a $300-million aged care policy.
Well, that's settled then, isn't it? Paul Martin, the magpie of a Prime Minister, has declared the issue of wait times for medical treatments to be his government's priority. And the Canadian Medical Association this week threw its ...
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Disease survival rates 'improve'
The NHS is reducing waiting times for treatment, improving survival rates and living within its budget, a report says.
No wonder investors are so giddy about the stock market lately. It's human nature to let good news supersede that which could be potentially bad.
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NS health system slammed for $15.5M in overdue accounts
HALIFAX - Nova Scotia's auditor general has condemned the provincial health system for failing to collect $15.5 million in overdue bills - including $640,000 racked up by one uninsured foreigner.
Well, that's settled then, isn't it? Paul Martin, the magpie of a Prime Minister, has declared the issue of wait times for medical treatments to be his government's priority. And the Canadian Medical Association this week threw its ...
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'NHS-wide faults' led to deficits
Mismanagement across the NHS in England has led to the current multimillion pound deficit, MPs find.
In what could be the most expensive decision in Medicare's history, officials say the government has decided to expand coverage of implanted heart-shocking devices for people with weakened hearts.
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Everything you need to know about 529 plans
Thankfully, securities regulators have been examining more closely the sales of 529 plans, an increasingly popular way for families to save for college.
NEW YORK - Preschool attendance appears to lower the risk of Hodgkin's disease in young adults, according to a report in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention.
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Cigna reaches deal on doctors' rankings
Cigna Corp. agreed to provide customers with more information about how the insurer recommends doctors, state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced Monday.
Wal-Mart is adding $4 generic drugs to its health insurance plans and offering lower premiums and deductibles, the third consecutive year of changes to the employee health benefits that unions have criticized.
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Congress probes high Medicaid drug costs
Taxpayers could save hundreds of millions of dollars a year if soaring Medicaid reimbursements for prescription medicines more closely matched
Helped by two whistle-blowers, the lawyer who beat Big Tobacco is on a new crusade -- to fight what clinics charge the uninsured
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State report: Minority kids more likely to be uninsured
Though Michigan children are healthier, black and Hispanic children are much more likely to be uninsured, in poor health and struggling to get access to care.
Beneath campaign barbs lie stark contrasts on health insurance, deficits, and tax rates.
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Health costs rising faster than wages
Health care costs grew faster than the overall economy in the first half of this year, according to a study released Thursday. Although the increase
Helped by two whistle-blowers, the lawyer who beat Big Tobacco is on a new crusade -- to fight what clinics charge the uninsured
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Insurance sector braces for fallout from probe
Eliot Spitzer's probe into bid-rigging and insurance practices is likely to usher in an era of greater transparency, decreased compensation for insurance brokers and revamped business models.
Health insurance premiums rose five times faster than U.S. workers' salaries this year, according to a survey released on Thursday that also showed slippage in the percentage of American workers covered by employer health plans.
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Senate bill takes aim at insurance companies
Some key players in the legislative battle over medical-liability reform support attacking soaring malpractice-insurance premiums by making it harder for insurance companies to raise their rates.
Helped by two whistle-blowers, the lawyer who beat Big Tobacco is on a new crusade -- to fight what clinics charge the uninsured
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Hospital Billing Never Ends
Unpredictable hospital billing can lead to financial anxiety about the prospect of dealing with insurance companies even before a surgery has happened.
It is barely a drop of ink in the gargantuan omnibus spending bill that Congress just passed. But a provision that would give the public free access to the results of federally funded biomedical research represents a sweet victory for a coalition of researchers and activists who lobbied for the l...
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MD deal aims to trim drugs for poor
Doctors and the Ontario government have agreed to try to cut the taxpayer-funded prescription drug costs of the poor and elderly by $200 million over the next four years, the Star has learned.
Business & money: · EC looks at forcing down price of mobile roaming · Worries over high costs for business
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Study: Insured Cancer Patients Do Better
ATLANTA -- Uninsured cancer patients are nearly twice as likely to die within five years as those with private coverage, according to the first national study of its kind and one that sheds light on troubling health care obstacles.
New Jersey officials asked a federal judge yesterday to block new Bush administration rules that would make it harder for states to enroll middle-income kids in a popular government-subsidized health insurance program for children.
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Berlin says reforms cut spending on medicine
BERLIN - Germany's health reform - which aims to maintain universal healthcare by slashing costs - is working as shown by a sharp drop in spending on medicine last month, an official said Monday.
Business & money: Beijing's latest attempt to curb boom sends stock markets falling across Europe and Asia.
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Deal means billions more for health care
OTTAWA - In a ceremony held in the National Conference Centre just after midnight, the prime minister and the premiers have formally signed a 10-year agreement aimed at rescuing the country's health-care system.
Helped by two whistle-blowers, the lawyer who beat Big Tobacco is on a new crusade -- to fight what clinics charge the uninsured
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Blue Cross proposes fix for uninsured Americans
A U.S. health insurance giant on Wednesday presented a proposal to reduce the number of Americans without medical coverage and said it was intended as a blueprint for U.S. policymakers.
GREENVILLE -- Medical lawsuits are one of the driving forces behind skyrocketing health care costs. That's according to Secretary Tommy Thompson, of the US Department of Health and Human Services.
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Enrollment Opens For State Prescription Drug Card
LANSING-- Low-income seniors and working families without prescription drug coverage can begin applying for a state discount card.
New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer on Monday threatened to sue the federal government on charges that new regulations on children's health insurance violate an existing program that covers children from lower-income families.
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Medicaid spends 1 pct on illegal immigrants: study
Less than 1 percent of Medicaid spending went to health care for illegal immigrants, according to a study that the researchers said defied a common belief that they are a bigger drain on taxpayer money.
Comment is free: Mary Riddell: Projects to help young unemployed people get back on track have a high success rate, so why are they being starved of funds?
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Employers foresee health costs up 8 pct: poll
U.S. businesses, which have seen skyrocketing inflation in their health care costs in recent years, expect those costs to rise 8 percent this year and next, according to a national poll released on Wednesday.
Yum Brands Inc. on Tuesday said quarterly earnings rose 13 percent and raised its profit forecast for the year as strong sales at its fast-food chains helped offset a run-up in commodity costs.
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Money is key sticking point as first ministers talk health
OTTAWA (CP) - Prime Minister Paul Martin is downplaying the federal-provincial gulf over health funding, saying the first ministers meeting is more than just a numbers game.
TUESDAY, Sept. 12 (HealthDay News) -- The fear that the new Medicare drug plan would limit access to medicines hasn't come true, as least as far as cancer treatment is concerned, a new report finds.
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Court says San Francisco health plan can proceed
San Francisco's universal health-care plan, a first-of-its kind local program to be funded in part by fees from employers, may go forward while under appeal, a U.S. appeals court panel ruled on Wednesday.
Eight people arrested over failed car bombings in Glasgow and London all have links with the NHS.
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Insurer launches per-mile cover
A pay-as-you-drive car insurance scheme is being introduced by Norwich Union.
General Motors has a new pitch for car shoppers to coincide with an expected rate hike Wednesday from the Federal Reserve. GM's program, called "Lock 'n' Roll," will give shoppers who buy a
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Hooray for Mortgage Brokers!
Mortgage brokers get high marks and may help you get a good deal.
Democratic lawmakers will propose banning private Medicare insurance plans from door-to-door sales pitches after some seniors complained that they were pressured or misled into enrolling in the wrong plans.
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