The Obama administration has delayed until 2015 a significant consumer protection in the reform law that limits how much people may have to spend on their own healthcare. FULL STORY »
By Holly Ramer / Associated Press | August 13, 2013
A traveling hospital technician accused of infecting dozens of patients with hepatitis C reached an agreement with prosecutors that would give him a sentence of as little as 30 years. FULL STORY »
By Morning Call (Allentown, Pa.) | August 13, 2013
With the main provisions of the Affordable Care Act—the most sweeping changes in the nation's healthcare system since the passage of Medicare in 1965—taking effect in just under five months, family physicians are sweating out the slow rollout of the law's regulations. FULL STORY »
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By Bill Barrow / Associated Press | August 12, 2013
Two of President Barack Obama's top lieutenants offered the nation's state legislators reserved-but-clear denunciations of Republican opposition they say hurts the middle class. FULL STORY »
By Andrew L. Wang, Crain's Chicago Business | August 12, 2013
The American Medical Association, the country's largest professional organization for physicians, is shutting down the news magazine it has published for 55 years. FULL STORY »
Shareholders of Health Management Associates have voted to elect eight new directors to the chain's board, activist investor Glenview Capital Management said. FULL STORY »
The Federal Trade Commission and Phoebe Putney Health System are in settlement talks to resolve a bitterly disputed court battle over a $200 million hospital acquisition in southwest Georgia. FULL STORY »
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