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With the anticipated arrival of some 14 million newly insured individuals into the nation's healthcare system in 2014, a major concern that remains is whether coverage will equal access. Texas lawmakers, physicians and nurse practitioners have taken a step forward on that problem while many other...
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“How are you going to feel if you have to go into an emergency room? You'll walk in there, and see chair after chair of working poor people—hard-working people—knowing that's their healthcare system, when we could have given them a better answer.”
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New Medicaid enrollees may be healthier than the program's current beneficiaries, but that is unlikely to relieve much of the pressure on providers as millions of newly covered patients seek care next year.
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text goes hereMichigan Gov. Rick Snyder's failure to persuade the GOP-led Senate to offer medical insurance to low-income adults lays bare the fundamental difference between his approach to the contentious federal healthcare law and that of many of his fellow Republicans.
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The American Osteopathic Association named Adrienne White-Faines to succeed John Crosby as executive director. Crosby is retiring after serving as the Chicago-based association's executive director since 1997. White-Faines, 53, is scheduled to join the AOA next month. She previously worked...
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Dr. Michael Weiss, newly elected president of the Michigan Osteopathic Association, said osteopathic physicians are hungry for information on how to better manage their practices and keep up with changes driven by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare.
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The number of organ donors jumped dramatically last year when Donate Life America—an organization that seeks to promote organ donation—partnered with Facebook to draw attention to the national organ shortage, according to a study by Johns Hopkins University researchers published in the...
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Dr. Herman Gray will move on from the president's role at Children's Hospital of Michigan in Detroit as he takes on the job as the hospital's new CEO.
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Some states that will be running their health insurance exchanges with help from the federal government are not receiving necessary information in a timely fashion, which may inhibit their ability to effectively prepare for the launch of their marketplaces, according to a study released Friday from...
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The coming weeks are shaping up to be a big deal for states still on the fence regarding Medicaid expansion.
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