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Aug 15 2012

New York Times

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Profits at the health care industry giant HCA, which controls 163 hospitals from New Hampshire to California, have soared, far outpacing those of most of its competitors.

Aug 15 2012

Fiscal Times

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Ryan’s current plan offers a “premium support” alternative, where seniors would be granted a certain amount of money to use for Medicare, which would continue in its present form, or for alternative programs.

Aug 15 2012

Reuters

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U.S. buyout fund Carlyle Group said on Wednesday it has acquired a 13.5 percent stake in Meinian Onehealth Healthcare Group Co Ltd, placing a bet on rising spending on preventive healthcare from China’s growing middle class

Aug 15 2012

KPMG on Health Care Transformation

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KPMG releases a report on the ongoing transformation of the United States' health care system, which affects payers, providers and patients. The firm gives its perspective on the forces driving…

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Aug 14 2012

Fiscal Times

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Medicare has moved to the center of this year’s presidential campaign for a single overriding reason: shrinking the nation’s long-term government deficit demands dealing with health care costs

Aug 14 2012

HealthLeaders Media

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The debate continues to rage: Are meaningful use requirements too specific or too vague? On target or wide of the mark?

Aug 14 2012

Washington Post

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A new study indicates 12 states have an obesity rate higher than 30 percent.

Aug 14 2012

AMA

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Half of EHR systems sold to physician practices are now replacements, up from 30% last year, according to a recent study by research firm KLAS.

Aug 14 2012

Bloomberg

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Former U.S. Senator Alan Simpson, co-chairman of President Barack Obama’s fiscal commission, said escalating Medicare costs stand to squeeze out the rest of domestic government spending.

Aug 14 2012

Reuters

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The Obama administration this week will try to encourage reluctant U.S. states to move forward with health insurance exchanges amid fears that time is running out

Aug 14 2012

Kaiser Health News

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Consumer groups on Monday said state and federal regulators should move quickly to set rules to protect Americans from health insurance premium “rate shocks” and to prevent insurers from charging far higher rates in low income areas

Aug 14 2012

PWC on Health Care Customers’ Experience

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The "consumer" is all the rage in health care and a new report form PWC examines the customer experience and how to improve it, based on expectations in other industries…

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Aug 13 2012

Kaiser Health News

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Medicare To Penalize 2,211 Hospitals For Excess Readmissions

Aug 13 2012

Post Gazette

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Opponents of the law say they won’t set up new private health insurance markets called exchanges. But increasingly, it’s looking as though Washington will just do it for them.

Aug 13 2012

MN Public Radio

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Demand for home health care workers is soaring as baby boomers — the 78 million Americans born between 1946 and 1964 — get older and states try to save money by moving people out of more costly nursing homes.