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Noting that healthcare is in the beginning of its “Decade of Transformation,” healthcare strategist Marc Sauve told attendees at the 25th annual Healthcare Facilities Symposium and Expo in Chicago that “We are going to have to rethink everything.”
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Pollsters, think tank analysts and healthcare interest groups on Thursday dissected the performances of President Barack Obama and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, who spent a good portion of their first presidential debate Wednesday explaining how they would tackle the nation's healthcare...
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“Debates are what make America great,” Johnny Carson said on The Tonight Show 28 years ago this month. “The candidates stand before their electorate and reporters ask hard-hitting questions, and it's up to the people to decide which one evaded them more skillfully.”
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There's no doubting that Americans love a good debate. Here's hoping that the initial faceoff this week between the two presidential nominees doesn't disappoint.
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“The debate over healthcare costs often deals with systemic matters—redundant administration, competition for expensive high-tech diagnostic devices, fees for quantity of services rather than quality of care, unnecessary procedures, excessive drug prescriptions and so on. Often missing...
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Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan was booed as he told an AARP audience that the first step to ensuring a strong Medicare program is to repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
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Weeks before the Nov. 6 elections, President Barack Obama and Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) sought the senior vote when they laid out their respective positions on Medicare and Social Security at an AARP convention in New Orleans.
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Cue the ominous legislation soundtrack.Congressional Democrats welcomed Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan back to Capitol Hill through a day-long series of attacks on his plan to repeal the healthcare overhaul and add an insurance subsidy option to Medicare.
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Republican proposals to replace Medicare insurance benefits with vouchers that seniors could use to buy insurance would drive up healthcare costs for the nation's elderly, according to a report.
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Sister Simone Campbell, the Catholic nun who led the “Nuns on the Bus” two-week tour this summer to oppose Rep. Paul Ryan's (R-Wis.) House budget, has joined other faith leaders in urging the nation's governors to support the reform law's Medicaid expansion.
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