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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 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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“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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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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“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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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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“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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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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As the countdown to the launch of painful federal budget cuts nears the zero hour, it would be foolish to expect new allocations of funding for anything, including medical research.
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From Aurora, Colo., to Newtown, Mass., to the apparent suicide of country singer Mindy McCready, the issue of mental illness has become a high-profile topic. Time after time, in tragedy after tragedy, we find people who have lost hope, become severely depressed, or who have displayed significant...
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