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Reform Update: AHA warns against changing hospital tax rules
By Jessica Zigmond | July 26, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Already knee-deep in healthcare reform, the nation's hospitals this week waded into other deep policy waters that could have a serious impact on how they do business: tax reform.
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Conservatives' aggressive ad campaign seeks to cast doubt on health law
By New York Times | July 08, 2013
Though many of its rules will not take effect for months, President Barack Obama's healthcare law is already the subject of an aggressive advertising campaign by Republicans to sow doubts about how it will work.
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Newly insured to deepen primary care doctor gap
By Ann Sanner / Associated Press | June 22, 2013
Getting face time with the family doctor could soon become even harder.
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NAPH changes name to America's Essential Hospitals
By Jessica Zigmond | June 20, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
After an 18-month brand evaluation, the National Association of Public Hospitals and Health Systems has changed its name to America's Essential Hospitals.
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Ill. doctors block bids to expand nurse, dentist roles
By Carla K. Johnson / Associated Press | June 05, 2013
Nurses, dentists and psychologists asked the Illinois Legislature this spring for more authority to make medical decisions with demand expected to surge under the federal healthcare law, but each time lawmakers sided with doctors and turned them down.
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Nursing home associations join forces
By Jessica Zigmond | May 28, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
The American Health Care Association and the Alliance for Quality Nursing Home Care have agreed to join their organizations and operate under the AHCA name beginning July 1.
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Partisan gridlock thwarts effort to alter health law
By New York Times | May 27, 2013
Almost no law as sprawling and consequential as the Affordable Care Act has passed without changes—significant structural changes or routine tweaks known as “technical corrections”—in subsequent months and years. But as they prowl Capitol Hill, business lobbyists, health...
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RAC bill getting hospital lobby's biggest push
By Rich Daly | May 24, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Legislation to muzzle Medicare auditors has received the biggest hospital lobbying push this year—so far, to little effect.
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How 'political intelligence' can come from Congress itself
By Washington Post | May 07, 2013
A recent conference call reveals the extent to which a pipeline of valuable political insight exists between Capitol Hill and Wall Street, one that ordinary Americans and investors do not enjoy.
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State reform update: Ark. Medicaid alternative in spotlight as other states mull similar plans
By Rich Daly | April 17, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Arkansas lawmakers gave final approval to the governor's plan to use new federal Medicaid funding to buy private coverage in insurance exchanges. Now it's likely to draw intense federal scrutiny.
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