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Conservatives' last stand against the healthcare reform law will be a major obstacle as top lawmakers try to come up with must-do legislation to keep federal agencies running after Sept. 30.
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Veteran investigative journalist Kurt Eichenwald has an important and scathing commentary in the new issue of Vanity Fair on the issue of how new state restrictions in Texas and other states on centers providing abortion and other women's health services are likely to affect diagnosis and treatment...
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LSU Health Care Services' chief executive, who also serves as the chief medical officer, is resigning next month.
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The Obama administration's one-year delay in the employer mandate continues to generate confused and contradictory responses that ignore the collapse of the employer-based insurance system.
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Safety net hospitals issued recommendations Tuesday for reforming the federal 340b drug discount program, which has become controversial because of alleged misuse by some hospitals.
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The biggest risk for Obamacare in 2014 is that millions of uninsured individuals mandated to purchase health insurance on Jan. 1 will have difficulties using the new health insurance exchanges under development in each state.
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Hospital board members make decisions based on the mission of their organizations, not solely on how to increase the bottom line. Similarly, we can't just let our fellow citizens suffer, expecting the free market to magically take care of the problem of the uninsured and underinsured. The market...
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There's been much media discussion about how the Obamacare tax penalty may be too small to prod so-called young invincibles to buy health insurance come Jan. 1, 2014. Many news reports and commentaries have scoffed at the idea that Obamacare's tax penalty will be stiff enough to convince healthy...
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New York Downtown Hospital—now renamed New York-Presbyterian/Lower Manhattan Hospital—has merged with New York-Presbyterian Hospital to become its sixth member, effective July 1.
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A University of Texas academic has concluded after pouring over Kaiser Permanente's proposed rates for its exchange offerings in California that the high rate on its lowest-cost health insurance plan is not due to the plan's generosity.
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