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Dec 20 2010

Kaiser Health News

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Who Might Stay Uninsured In Spite Of The Individual Mandate

Dec 17 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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Patients with mental and behavioral health issues rather than physical ailments often cause a bottleneck in hospital emergency rooms for “up to a week or more” because inpatient psychiatric beds are lacking

Dec 17 2010

Bloomberg

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The Obama administration’s health- care reform should be thrown out because it overreaches the federal government’s authority, opponents argued in a Florida lawsuit

Dec 17 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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The number of hospitalists has increased to more than 30,000 and a report cited by The Hospitalist this fall shows that median compensation for adult hospitalists is $215,000 per year.

Dec 17 2010

nextgov.com

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For hospital IT executives who are trying to meet federal “meaningful use” standards for electronic health records by early spring, it was a rough fall.

Dec 17 2010

Kaiser Health News

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Under a little-known provision of the health overhaul law, insurers will be required to provide their benefits information on a standardized chart using the same plain English terms as other companies

Dec 17 2010

Fiscal Times

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Opponents of President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul law are a cheering a federal court ruling that one of its core provisions is unconstitutional. They may not realize that Obama has a fallback option that also could do the job.

Dec 17 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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The Obama Administration is looking for sophisticated fraud-fighting tools which could enable federal agencies to catch illegal Medicare and Medicaid practices as they happen.

Dec 17 2010

New York Times

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The president’s bioethics commission has concluded that there is no need to temporarily halt research or to impose new regulations on the controversial new field known as synthetic biology.

Dec 17 2010

Wall Street Journal

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In a bid to cash in on its high-quality but expensive medical industry Japan said Friday it will ease visa requirements to encourage the flow of wealthy travelers seeking medical treatment here

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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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