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2012 100 Most Influential People in Healthcare (text list)

By Modern Healthcare | August 25, 2012

This year's ranking of the 100 Most Influential People in Healthcare includes 18 newcomers as well as eight honorees who have been on every list since it started in 2002.
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Insuring Influence | Annual ranking of healthcare's 100 Most Influential shows big impact of health coverage issues in America, from policy to business to politics

By Andis Robeznieks | August 25, 2012 | Print Magazine

During confirmation hearings in 2005 after he was nominated to become the next chief justice of the United States, John Roberts described a judge's role as that of an “umpire.”
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Late News: CHA opposes reform law's birth-control rule

By Modern Healthcare | June 16, 2012 | Print Magazine

The Catholic Health Association, which incurred the wrath of U.S. bishops by supporting the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act in 2010, is now formally opposing a regulation in the law that forces Catholic hospitals to indirectly provide birth control to employees.
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CHA joins opposition to reform law's birth-control rule

By Joe Carlson | June 15, 2012 | Basic Web

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Swedish takes post as Catholic Health Association chairman

By Ashok Selvam | June 05, 2012 | Basic Web

Joseph Swedish has taken his post as the Catholic Health Association's board chairman for fiscal 2012.
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Providers feeling the heat? | Vatican's rebuke of nuns may signal reform ahead

By Ashok Selvam | May 05, 2012 | Print Magazine

The Vatican's surprising reprimand of a Maryland-based nuns group could signal pressure on Catholic healthcare providers who similarly have broken with the church leadership over healthcare reform.
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Contraception compromise | Questions unanswered on how plan will work

By Jessica Zigmond | February 11, 2012 | Print Magazine

The White House's announcement that religious hospitals and charities will not be required to provide contraception coverage in their employee health plans has left many wondering who will really pay for these services—and how?
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Business conversion | Catholic Healthcare West ends formal ties to church, and as Dignity Health hopes it can more easily add non-Catholic hospitals

By Ashok Selvam | January 28, 2012 | Print Magazine

Catholic Healthcare West shed more than words when the 38-hospital system changed its name to Dignity Health. It dropped its formal connection to the Roman Catholic Church.
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Late News: Final rule on birth control gives religious employers extra year

By Modern Healthcare | January 21, 2012 | Print Magazine

Religious employers, including Roman Catholic hospitals, will have an additional year to comply with a new federal requirement that they offer free birth control to employees through their health insurance plans.
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Under their influence | Washington insiders hold sway over our ‘100 Most Influential' ranking, but real change seems to be coming from elsewhere

By Andis Robeznieks | August 22, 2011 | Print Magazine

The nation's political forces are bitterly divided over issues ranging from raising the country's debt ceiling to the use of energy-efficient light bulbs, so it's no surprise that the government's role in healthcare is also the source of intense debate.
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