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Mar 02 2011

New York Times

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41,467 Pennsylvanians who had been covered by adultBasic, a state-subsidized insurance program for the working poor, woke up Tuesday without insurance – the governor shut it down on Monday in one of the largest dis-enrollments in recent memory.

Mar 02 2011

Wall Street Journal

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ADP Acquires AdvancedMD, A Leading Provider of Cloud-based Solutions for Practice Management, Electronic Health Records, and Revenue Cycle Management

Mar 02 2011

HealthLeaders Media

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A relaxation of the MOE (maintenance-of-effort) provisions will push many low-income Americans off Medicaid rolls, thereby increasing the number of uninsured

Mar 02 2011

LA Times

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Families USA points out that ACA law would cap how much people with insurance must spend out of their pockets for healthcare services, starting in 2014 – $5,950 for an individual and $11,900 for a family of any size.

Mar 01 2011

Fiscal Times

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The president on Monday rejected a plan promoted by conservative Republican governors to turn Medicaid, the joint federal-state program that provides health care for the poor, into a block grant program

Mar 01 2011

HealthLeaders Media

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The study of select Highmark employer group wellness programs showed that the savings per participant was $332 a year

Mar 01 2011

PR Newswire

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HealthFitness, an award-winning provider of employee health and fitness solutions, has acquired the assets of Focused Health Solutions

Mar 01 2011

USNews.com

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Half of U.S. adults still oppose the “individual mandate” clause in the new health care reform law that requires all Americans not already insured to purchase health insurance, while only 22 percent support it, a new Harris Interactive/HealthDay poll finds.

Mar 01 2011

PR Newswire

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Four successful contract packaging and re-packaging companies in the pharmaceutical industry recently joined forces to create a new, single-source industry leader called Aphena Pharma Solutions.

Mar 01 2011

HealthLeaders Media

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Ventas, Inc. will acquire Nationwide Health Properties, Inc. in an all-stock transaction valued at $7.4 billion that – when completed – will create the nation’s largest publicly traded real estate investment trust