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Jun 29 2012

Wall Street Journal

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Hospitals Surge, Insurers Slide on Ruling

Jun 29 2012

Wall Street Journal

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High Court’s Health-Law Ruling a Boon for Pharmacies, Benefit Managers

Jun 29 2012

Bloomberg

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Wealthy investors, health insurance companies and medical device makers will face hundreds of billions of dollars in new taxes stemming from the health-care law that the U.S. Supreme Court upheld today.

Jun 29 2012

Bloomberg

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U.S. spending on genetic tests will balloon fivefold to as much as $25 billion in the next decade, from $5 billion in 2010

Jun 29 2012

Kaiser Health News

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The Supreme Court has given states a way out of expanding their Medicaid programs under the health law, and top Republican officials in several states were quick to say they want to take that step.

Jun 28 2012

Politico

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Health care ruling: Individual Mandate upheld by Supreme Court

Jun 28 2012

InformationWeek

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Neither the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) nor California’s Confidentiality of Medical Information Act (CMIA) do enough to address the privacy and security of patients’ health information.

Jun 28 2012

HealthLeaders Media

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Advocates for rural healthcare providers are objecting to a Medicare Payment Advisory Commission report this month that says that access to rural healthcare services is “similar” to access in urban areas and that reimbursement for that care is “adequate.”

Jun 28 2012

Wall Street Journal

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A part of the growing reach by UPS—along with rivals FedEx Corp.and DHL—is the business of running supply chains for pharmaceutical and medical-device companies.

Jun 28 2012

Washington Post

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A look at the federal health care overhaul in all 50 states

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Kevin RocheThe Healthy Skeptic is a website about the health care system, and is written by Kevin Roche, who has many years of experience working in the health industry. Mr. Roche is available to assist health care companies through consulting arrangements through Roche Consulting, LLC and may be reached at khroche@healthy-skeptic.com.

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