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Mar 09 2011

Wall Street Journal

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The 33 million participants in flexible-spending accounts can no longer use their pre-tax money to buy over-the-counter drugs unless they get a doctors prescription

Mar 09 2011

US News

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‘Diabetes Belt’ Outlined – Region of high prevalence stretches across Deep South and Appalachia

Mar 09 2011

Kaiser Health News

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A grassroots advocacy group examined recent state budget cuts and found that from 2009-2011, states cut $1.8 billion or about 8 percent, from their total state mental health budgets.

Mar 09 2011

McLatchyde

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Under the new law, the federal government will pay the entire cost of the new enrollees for the first three years, after which it will scale down gradually to 90 percent in 2020 and thereafter. Republican governors say that’s an entitlement-program expansion they simply can’t afford

Mar 09 2011

Medical Page News

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Medtronic Under Fire for Dropping GPO Contracts

Mar 08 2011

HealthLeaders Media

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Healthcare Reform: Why We Can’t Turn Back

Mar 08 2011

PR Newswire

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Med-Metrix, LLC today announced that it has acquired Health Ware Concepts, Inc., a leading provider of Software-as-a-Service Decision Support technology

Mar 08 2011

New York Times

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Members of Congress, including Democrats, have urged the Obama administration to search for another Medicare chie

Mar 08 2011

HealthLeaders Media

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The American Medical Association Monday applauded a federal appeals court’s ruling that physicians who bill patients after providing services are not subject to Federal Trade Commission so-called red flag rules

Mar 08 2011

The Insurance Nation

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Amid high unemployment rates and rising health-care costs, a smaller proportion of Americans are getting health insurance from their employers

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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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