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The White House on Monday shot back at critics who claim Obamacare is leading to higher healthcare costs, slower job growth and rising numbers of part-time workers, saying the latest economic statistics show none of those effects.
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President Barack Obama plans to meet separately Wednesday with House and Senate Democrats to discuss upcoming challenges on issues like the economy and the rollout of Obama's healthcare law.
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The turnaround in the financial markets—and an overall improving economy—means charitable giving has improved at hospitals at a time when their investment portfolios are also seeing greater returns.
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The June job report showed gains for the healthcare sector with almost 20,000 new positions. But the industry's job outlook is still anything but stable as two healthcare systems reported plans to shed hundreds of jobs.
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One-year-old Ka'Lani is so fascinated by a round plastic toy that she doesn't see her mother, Ke'sha Scrivner, walk into the Martha's Table day care, chanting her name while softly clapping out a beat that Ka'Lani keeps with a few bounces on her bottom.
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Asking 15 experts to solve a $200 billion-plus problem that has stymied federal lawmakers for decades seems challenging enough. Add to that task a deadline of less than three months, a bitterly divided Congress and a battle-weary administration.
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The acute-care hospital Produce Price Index continued to inch upward for the second-consecutive month, thanks to a 0.3% increase in June, according to preliminary figures released Friday morning by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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National economic policies that impose harsh cuts on social programs, especially healthcare safety nets, can be lethal, literally. That's the argument made by David Stuckler, a senior research leader at Oxford University, and Dr. Sanjay Basu, a Stanford University epidemiologist, in their recent...
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Healthcare employers added nearly twice as many jobs in June as they did in May, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics' preliminary and seasonally adjusted figures.
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The healthcare spending slump isn't just a U.S. phenomenon.
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