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Mar 22 2011

Wall Street Journal

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One year after President Barack Obama signed his historic health care overhaul, the law is taking root in the land. Whether it bears lasting fruit is still in question.

Mar 22 2011

Kansas Health Institute

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CRS report: HHS secretary has latitude to waive state MOE requirements

Mar 21 2011

Kaiser Health News

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On Health Law’s Anniversary: Predictions For Next Year

Mar 21 2011

Bloomberg

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Public-sector researchers, who get about 70 percent of their funding from the U.S. government, contributed to the discovery of as many as 1 in 5 medicines approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration between 1990 and 2007

Mar 21 2011

MarketWatch

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Quest Diagnostics agreed Friday to acquire Celera Corp. for about $344 million as the company seeks to expand in gene-based medical testing.

Mar 21 2011

Kaiser Health News

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Health Insurers Respond To Reform By Snapping Up Less-Regulated Businesses

Mar 21 2011

New York Times

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To date, the administration has relaxed the minimum $750,000 standard coverage for more than 1,000 health plans covering 2.6 million people.

Mar 21 2011

stltoday.com

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Urgent care centers, which handle a variety of acute and severe maladies from broken bones to flu and lacerations, are proliferating not only in St. Louis but nationally.

Mar 21 2011

HealthLeaders Media

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Readmission Reduction Strategies Pay Off

Mar 21 2011

HealthLeaders Media

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

If you have a patient portal, chances are you aren’t using it to its full potential. And if you don’t have one, you’re missing out

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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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