Kevin Roche – Page 984 – Healthy Skeptic

Mar 10 2010

New York Times

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Which matters more: what the plan does, or what it fails to do? It’s a tough call, and the answer depends on what you see as the alternative

Mar 10 2010

Bloomberg

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The President is facing a renewed push against his health-care legislation as a coalition of business groups plans to spend as much as $1 million a day on advertisements to pressure lawmakers into voting “no.”

Mar 10 2010

Hospital Costs and Quality

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Following up on similar research, an article delves into the relationship between hospital costs and quality, finding inconsistent associations between high cost and better quality. It does not appear that…

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Mar 09 2010

New York Times

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At the heart of Obama’s drive to rein in health costs is a proposal for federal review and regulation of health insurance premiums, with a new agency empowered to block excessive rate increases.

Mar 09 2010

EBRI

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EBRI: The percentage of workers very confident about having enough money for a comfortable retirement has stabilized at 16 percent

Mar 09 2010

Bloomberg

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U.S. workers are more confident about having enough savings for retirement even after the percentage of savers declined, according to the Employee Benefit Research Institute.

Mar 09 2010

Wall Street Journal

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Lawmakers working to craft a new comprehensive immigration bill have settled on a way to prevent employers from hiring illegal immigrants: a national biometric identification card all American workers would eventually be required to obtain

Mar 09 2010

Wall Street Journal

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The number of cosmetic-surgery procedures in the U.S. sagged for the second year in a row in 2009, according to an annual survey released Tuesday by a plastic surgeons’ association

Mar 09 2010

New York Times

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The Senate Finance Committee has opened an investigation into patient deaths and allegations of substandard treatment at specialty medical centers that treat chronically ill patients

Mar 09 2010

Washington Post

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Prospects are good for resolving a dispute over abortion that has led some House Democrats to threaten to withhold support of health care overhaul, a key Michigan Democrat said Monday

Mar 09 2010

Washington Post

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In the 1980s hospital administrators were required to bundle charges into DRGs – physician charges, however, are paid separately for each visit they make to a hospital patient

Mar 09 2010

Wall Street Journal

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Doctors and hospitals are getting a new test that many think will help fight ovarian cancer, one of the deadliest cancers, by helping them to more quickly distinguish cancerous from benign growths.

Mar 09 2010

Bloomberg

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Obama told an audience outside Philadelphia yesterday that insurers have calculated that higher premiums can more than make up for the loss of customers who can’t afford coverage

Mar 09 2010

StreetInsider

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Gentiva Health Services, Inc. (Nasdaq: GTIV) announced today that it has acquired Mississippi-based Heart to Heart Hospice

Mar 09 2010

Physician Work Hours

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An JAMA article examines whether physicians are working less, and if so, whether the reduction is related to changes in fees. The results indicate physicians are putting in fewer hours,…

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