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Jun 08 2012

Wasington Post

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For 14 months, a bipartisan group of 17 states has been quietly collaborating with the Obama administration to help build a foundation for the health-care reform law’s success.

Jun 08 2012

Fiscal Times

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House Republicans on Thursday repealed the medical device tax included in the 2010 health care reform law to help pay for coverage of the uninsured.

Jun 08 2012

NPR.org

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The full genetic code of a fetus has been cracked. The technique, used by scientists at the University of Washington, could offer parents safer and more comprehensive prenatal testing in the future. The ethical questions that arise from this kind of testing abound.

Jun 08 2012

The Hill

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The Health and Human Services Department has missed nearly half of its legal deadlines while implementing President Obama’s healthcare law, according to an analysis by the American Action Forum.

Jun 07 2012

InformationWeek

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The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) wants to better define the “essential benefits” that non-grandfathered health plans participating in the state health insurance exchanges must offer.

Jun 07 2012

HealthLeaders Media

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Some hospitals and health systems are starting to figure out there’s a better way to get reimbursed, one that is less stressful for the patient and more efficient for the provider.

Jun 07 2012

Wall Street Journal

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Some of the nation’s best-known hospitals get poor grades on patient safety, according to a new Hospital Safety Score released by The Leapfrog Group, the health-care quality watchdog formed more than a decade ago by large employers.

Jun 07 2012

Washington Post

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White House threatens to veto House GOP bill repealing tax on medical devices

Jun 07 2012

Bloomberg

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When U.S. Supreme Court justices picked apart the government’s arguments in defense of President Barack Obama’s health-care overhaul, they buoyed the hopes of the law’s opponents that it would be ruled unconstitutional.

Jun 07 2012

Politico

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The justices will deliver their landmark ruling on the 2010 health care law this month, and the government is in line to reap hundreds of billions of dollars in savings — perhaps more than $1 trillion — if certain parts of it are struck down.