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The nominees for Modern Healthcare's 12th annual 100 Most Influential People in Healthcare competition.
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For a moment, set aside the debate over what happened since the recession to slow health spending to record lows. The slowdown held health spending to roughly the same rate of growth as the economy for two consecutive years after the recession, the most recent data show.
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An exhausted Senate gave pre-dawn approval Saturday to a Democratic $3.7 trillion budget for next year that embraces nearly $1 trillion in tax increases over the coming decade but shelters domestic programs targeted for cuts by House Republicans.
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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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House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) said the budget he proposes this week will promote repealing the 2010 healthcare law and transforming Medicare into a premium-support system.
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A physician from Georgia is in the running Wednesday for the fourth-highest leadership post within the House Republican Conference.
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About 59% of Medicare beneficiaries would have paid higher Medicare premiums in 2010 under a premium-support system if they had remained in their same plan and if such a model had been implemented, a new Kaiser Family Foundation study concludes.
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Medicare was one of the biggest flashpoints during the election's first and only vice presidential debate, with that portion of the testy encounter bringing frequent interruptions by both Vice President Joe Biden and Republican vice presidential candidate Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.).
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Medicare was one of the biggest flashpoints during the election's first and only vice presidential debate Thursday night.
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Here's to diving below the overheated healthcare rhetoric. It's widely assumed that tonight's vice presidential debate will be a health policy wonkfest (with zingers) that submerges deeply into the numerous conflicting approaches of the two presidential tickets.
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