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A state court has ruled in favor of healthcare providers who say Pennsylvania officials made them pay too much money into a medical malpractice insurance fund. The Commonwealth Court ruled the state was wrong to require doctors and other providers to contribute to a reserve when the fund carried...
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Two of President Barack Obama's top lieutenants offered the nation's state legislators reserved-but-clear denunciations of Republican opposition they say hurts the middle class.
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Some of California's top insurers including Kaiser Permanente are protesting the state's plans to drop quality ratings from insurance listings when its exchange goes public on Oct. 1.
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An Ohio legislative panel on Monday cleared new state rules for professionals guiding people through the insurance marketplaces created by the federal healthcare law, despite concerns from some consumer groups that the regulations create confusion.
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The not-for-profit group responsible for educating Americans about the healthcare reform law's coverage options provided a status check of its efforts on Monday, but remained vague about how much it is spending on the massive endeavor.
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More and more doctors are ditching insurance companies, and letting patients pay them directly for their care. There was a conference on "direct pay" healthcare held for local doctors in Minneapolis on Saturday, the first of its kind in Minnesota. Business models vary from practice to practice,...
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In Morrisville, N.C., just down from the Target and Gander Mountain big-box stores and between a nail salon and dental office, North Carolina's largest health insurer opened its first retail store.
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President Barack Obama referred to Republican efforts to repeal the healthcare reform law as an “ideological fixation” during a White House news conference Friday.
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House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) is vowing to prevent a vote on immigration reform even though the latest reports from Capitol Hill suggest as many as 40 or 50 Republicans are willing to back some version of the legislation that passed the Senate last June.
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It's more those smoking breaks than healthcare costs that make smokers more expensive employees.
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