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Jan 23 2012

HealthLeaders Media

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Medicare Cuts Could Slash 278K Hospital Jobs, Warns AHA

Jan 23 2012

Courier-Journal.com

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As the nation’s economic slump continues, growing numbers of uninsured patients are straining community health facilities

Jan 23 2012

Fiscal Times

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Unaffordable new drugs, even when they’re covered by insurance, are being rationed by price: how to pay for the spectacular rise in the cost of cancer care, especially drugs and diagnostic tests.

Jan 23 2012

New York Times

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Chefs, Butlers, Marble Baths: Hospitals Vie for the Affluent

Jan 20 2012

Bloomberg

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Venture Funding Rises 10% in 2011 as Consumer Web Attracts Cash

Jan 20 2012

HealthLeaders Media

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

If you have commercial health insurance coverage, at some point or another, you’ve been paying for the shortfall in reimbursement from state and federal governments

Jan 20 2012

Wall Street Journal

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Eastman Kodak Co.’s problems: The company has twice as many retirees drawing benefits in the U.S. as it has active employees world-wide.

Jan 20 2012

Bloomberg

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Consumer spending has surged as a proportion of the U.S. economy since the mid 1960s, and it’s not because Americans splurged on cars, clothes or vacations. Instead they were looking after their wellbeing.

Jan 20 2012

The Hill

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

President Obama has signed bills axing provisions of healthcare reform: a tax reporting requirement for small businesses, and a “glitch” that would have made middle-income people eligible for Medicaid.  Republicans have also benefited from the demise of the law’s CLASS program

Jan 19 2012

New York Times

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Osteoporosis Patients Advised to Delay Bone Density Retests

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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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