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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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Provider groups said a House-drafted budget bill for HHS next year targets the nation's most vulnerable people, as it proposes to cut public health funding and end the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
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The eighth annual Modern Healthcare/Modern Physician ranking of the 50 Most Influential Physician Executives is indicative of the transformation the healthcare industry is undergoing.
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The Institute of Medicine has ambitious goals for the U.S. to transform its investment in public health amid congressional battles to rein in government spending.
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The Obama administration and healthcare industry groups say they will continue gearing up for full implementation of the federal healthcare overhaul, even as some worry the U.S. Supreme Court will pull the plug.
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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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This year's ranking of the 100 Most Influential People includes 27 newcomers as well as 10 honorees who have been on every list since it started in 2002.
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Just 11 of 19 public-health related provisions of last year's Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act have received funding, keeping public health worker positions from being created and jeopardizing the goals of the reform law, according to a report from the American Public Health Association,...
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After the defeat of a Republican plan to cut federal deficits with controversial Medicare and Medicaid changes, some congressional Democrats claimed cuts to those programs are now off the table. Not likely, said healthcare provider groups.
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The defeat on Wednesday of several budget alternatives, including the high-profile Republican measure passed by the House of Representatives in April that included Medicare and Medicaid cuts, drew a...
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