Healthcare Reform news and information

Jan Brewer, one of the fiercest Obamacare critics among Republican governors, rallied support last week for raising Medicaid eligibility in order to draw federal funding under the healthcare law.
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During a week otherwise consumed by partisan knife fights over White House scandals and yet another House vote to repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, 91 senators agreed that Marilyn Tavenner is equipped to run the CMS. Tavenner, 61, a former nurse and hospital executive for...
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A bad week for HHS turned progressively worse as a maelstrom of controversies swirling around the Obama administration now threatens to distract federal officials from effectively implementing the 2010 healthcare overhaul.
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Editor's note: As CEO of Carolinas HealthCare System, Charlotte, N.C., Michael Tarwater leads one of the largest public hospital systems in the U.S. and faces carrying out its mission in two states that have shunned the coverage expansions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. With...
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Financial executives will gather next month in Orlando, Fla., at the Healthcare Financial Management Association's Annual National Institute to discuss the continuing reverberations from healthcare reform.
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“It makes no sense for the District of Columbia to shut down the entire outside market for small business health insurance—which has worked for thousands of businesses over many decades, and force employers to use a never-been-tried government-run insurance exchange to insure their...
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Ah, spring. A time when Outliers' fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love ... and healthcare reform's effects on marriage.
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Modern Healthcare reporter Maureen McKinney talks with Michael Tarwater, CEO of Carolinas HealthCare System, Charlotte, N.C.
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Washington is once again in the grip of scandal fever. The Benghazi e-mails; the IRS targeting of conservative groups; allegations that HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius shook down healthcare companies to promote the insurance expansion in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act: The...
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