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U.S. Senate leaders from both parties Monday indicated they're optimistic about reaching a deal to end the government shutdown with an agreement that sources say is likely to include a few Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act provisions.
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Maryland has submitted a plan to the federal government to modernize the state's all-payer rate setting system for hospital services, Gov. Martin O'Malley announced Friday.
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As the government shutdown nears its second full week, members of Congress and the White House intensified their efforts around a deal to fund the government, with at least one part of the healthcare reform law still in play in those negotiations.
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The U.S. government was on the brink of a partial shutdown Monday after the Democratic-led Senate refused to back down in a clash with the Republican-led House over President Barack Obama's landmark health law.
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A conservative challenge to President Barack Obama's landmark healthcare law pushed the federal government Monday to the brink of the first partial shutdown in 17 years.
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Defying Senate Democrats and critics in their own party, House Republicans pushed through a short-term spending bill early Sunday that increases the likelihood of a government shutdown by requiring a one-year delay in implementing and funding the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
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Five years ago, ProMedica launched a campaign to address nutrition problems after finding the system's hospitals and services were being used to treat conditions associated with malnutrition.
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On the brink of a government shutdown, House Republicans on Saturday prepared to amend the Senate's recently passed short-term spending bill with provisions to delay the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act for one year and repeal the law's medical device tax.
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High-priced technology—not the economy and not healthcare reform—has the most potential to drive U.S. health spending growth upward in the years ahead, a new Brookings Institution analysis has found.
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Health spending by privately insured patients increased 4% last year, with households picking up more of the cost, new data show.
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