Kevin Roche – Page 1003 – Healthy Skeptic

Feb 02 2010

Health Affairs

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Despite the disparities among nations, all clearly face common challenges in expanding access to health and health care among disenfranchised peoples everywhere

Feb 02 2010

Wall Street Journal

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Companies’ efforts to reduce health-care costs by nudging employees into wellness programs are clashing with a federal law designed to prevent discrimination based on genetics

Feb 02 2010

Wall Street Journal

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For the 18 million people with obstructive sleep apnea, the remedy is far from perfect: bulky and expensive masks that some compare to sleeping in scuba gear

Feb 02 2010

Wall Street Journal

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More than four fifths of managers working in private equity expect a wave of closures or mergers within the industry because the poor fundraising environment

Feb 02 2010

Washington Post

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Virginia’s Democratic-controlled state Senate passed measures Monday that would make it illegal to require individuals to purchase health insurance

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Feb 02 2010

Washington Post

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The $915 billion health spending plan for 2011 would hire more fraud detectives to root out waste and outright thievery in Medicare and Medicaid

Feb 02 2010

Wall Street Journal

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The Obama administration still foresees a major health-care overhaul in its 2011 budget, estimating that the cost of the legislation will reach $743 billion over 10 years.

Feb 02 2010

Wall Street Journal

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President Barack Obama’s federal budget proposal assumes that the embattled health bill will pass – but contains some back-up plans if it doesn’t

Feb 02 2010

New York Times

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The budget request for the DHHS was $81.3 billion, up from $79.6 billion a year ago. And the NIH saw its budget request rise by $1 billion, to $32 billion

Feb 02 2010

New York Times

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When Medicare plans raise co-payments for outpatient care, older people cut back on doctors’ visits, then wind up needing more expensive hospital care

Feb 02 2010

Wall Street Journal

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New risk calculators from the American College of Surgeons aim to help evaluate individual patients’ risks of complications and death from surgical procedures

Feb 02 2010

Wall Street Journal

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Risk calculators, used by heart surgeons for several years, are now being developed for other surgical specialties

Feb 02 2010

Bloomberg

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The nation’s largest publicly traded hospital chains are stalking medical centers that have been hurt by the cost of charity care and unpaid bills in a recession

Feb 02 2010

CBO Looks at Republican Budget Proposal

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CBO analyzes a Republican proposal on federal spending, finding that the health care-related provisions would significantly reduce federal spending and national health expenditures, while increasing covered persons by an unspecified…

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Feb 01 2010

iHealthBeat

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Revolution Health sent e-mails alerting users that it would discontinue its personal health record service at the end of February