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Dissecting the president's budget | Crucial agencies would barely keep up with inflation under Obama's plan

By Merrill Goozner | April 13, 2013 | Print Magazine

From a healthcare perspective, the release of President Barack Obama's budget last week was extremely disturbing—and not because of the new cuts it would impose on healthcare providers.
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Size matters | Small hospitals need incentives to improve—but first, find out what works

By Merrill Goozner | April 06, 2013 | Print Magazine

A study that appeared last week documented a decade-long rise in 30-day mortality rates at critical-access hospitals, most of which are rural with fewer than 25 beds.
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Behind those rising rates | Few understand that decent health insurance costs more

By Merrill Goozner. | March 30, 2013 | Print Magazine

A new study predicts that people who already buy their own health insurance plans will face huge premium hikes when the exchanges created by the reform law open for business later this year.
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The Affordable Care Act at age 3 | Despite many successes, healthcare reform law still faces challenges

By Merrill Goozner | March 23, 2013 | Print Magazine

The Obama administration can justifiably look back with pride at year three of its signature healthcare reform law, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
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Other Voices

By Modern Healthcare | March 23, 2013 | Print Magazine

“After three years in which the Democratic majority in the Senate failed to produce a budget, it was refreshing to have them offer up any budget at all.
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Share risk, not roles | Providers, insurers must forge new links to manage slower growing payments

By Merrill Goozner | March 16, 2013 | Print Magazine

Total healthcare costs have remained in check for three straight years, and the sector's share of the overall economy hasn't budged since 2009.
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Other Voices: Ryan's budget rides on retreads

By Modern Healthcare | March 16, 2013 | Print Magazine

“There's nothing wrong with President Barack Obama speed-dating members of Congress. Meeting face to face over food and wine, as Obama has recently done with several groups of lawmakers from both parties, may ease the demonizing politics of the last four years. ...
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Heads in the cloud | Health IT's failure to achieve interoperability invites congressional scrutiny

By Merrill Goozner | March 09, 2013 | Print Magazine

Though the U.S. has already spent more than half the $22.5 billion earmarked for computerizing medical records, there has been achingly slow progress in creating an accessible, interoperable system that works for patients.
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Other Voices

By Modern Healthcare | March 02, 2013 | Print Magazine

“It is not a white flag of surrender,” Florida Gov. Rick Scott said.This was technically true: He did not wave a banner ... when he announced … that he wants Florida to expand Medicaid, a key piece of Obamacare.
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It's not 1965 anymore | New technology requires new ways to pay for it

By Merrill Goozner | March 02, 2013 | Print Magazine

Amid healthcare's rapidly changing technological landscape, one thing remains unchanged: the structure of how the nation pays for its senior citizen healthcare program.
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