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Democrats and Republicans played another game of political tennis this week when House Republicans served up another vote to fully repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and Democrats returned a litany of reasons why the 2010 law is good for Americans.
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SEIU-United Healthcare Workers downplayed any threat posed by the National Union of Healthcare Workers last week before defeating their upstart rival a second time for the right to represent the 45,000 healthcare workers at Kaiser Permanente in California.
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As healthcare providers and analysts continue to digest more than 1,400 pages of the CMS' recent inpatient prospective payment proposed rule, they are analyzing how the agency would implement a new payment methodology for Medicare disproportionate-share hospital (DSH) payments next year.
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The recession and weak recovery are by far the biggest culprits behind recent record-slow growth in health spending, according to a new analysis.
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Retired city worker Sheila Pugach lives in a modest home on a quiet street in Albuquerque, N.M., and drives an 18-year-old Subaru.
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People's lives today are full of choices. They know what they like. They know what matters to them. They trust their judgment and check with their gut. But when it comes to choices related to their health, they could use a little help.
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Californians who buy individual health plans will see their premiums increase an average of 14% next year under the Affordable Care Act, a report released by California's healthcare exchange says.
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The Obama administration says about 71 million privately insured Americans received coverage for at least one free preventive healthcare service as a result of the reform law in 2011 and 2012.
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The National Union of Healthcare Workers and the California Nurses Association want to rally workers to take a more aggressive stance in collective bargaining, and to do that, they're ready to tear down the relationships its rival Service Employees International Union has built with some large...
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Over the past five years, Kaiser Permanente Chairman and CEO George Halvorson, who will retire at the end of this year, sent a weekly letter to the 180,000 people who work for the nation's largest integrated healthcare delivery system. Every letter celebrated a particular success within the...
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