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2:00 p.m., Fri. - A measure that allows the federal government to make direct loans to students will be paired with the legislation to overhaul the U.S. healthcare system in an effort to both garner additional votes and satisfy the requirements of budgetary reconciliation, House Democrats said after a caucus meeting. ... FULL STORY

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The American Hospital Association and state health finance authorities urged House and Senate finance committee leaders to make permanent two temporary stimulus-law incentives that encourage banks to... ... FULL STORY

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When examined through the lens of a jobs bill, the current healthcare proposal can only be viewed as an impediment to job creation, at best, or a job killer, at worst. ... FULL STORY

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The government, the media and insurance companies keep telling hospitals and doctors that they over-order and over-prescribe, and that is one big factor in the ever-upward march of healthcare costs. ... FULL STORY

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This is the fourth installment for 2009 of the Commonwealth Fund/Modern Healthcare Opinion Leaders Survey. More survey results can be found at the Commonwealth Fund's Web site, commonwealthfund.org.

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With so much attention being given to healthcare reform—which unfortunately seems to have morphed into health insurance reform—it's essential to remember the importance of reforming...
 

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Just as in 1993, when the architects of health reform initially took Medicare for granted and then scrambled to address beneficiaries' concerns, Washington finds itself caught up in the fog of...
 

In its 44-year history, Medicare has been effective at providing access to medical care and predictable coverage for its beneficiaries. Now it’s time for the federal program to use its...
 

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How is the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, better known as the stimulus law, affecting project priorities when it comes to healthcare IT? Do the meaningful-use criteria as proposed by the feds really mean anything yet? And what are some of the hottest trends in health IT today? Those are some of the issues addressed in the findings from Modern Healthcare's annual IT survey.

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