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Nov 12 2010

Bloomberg

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MetLife Inc., the largest U.S. life insurer, will halt the sale of new long-term care coverage after citing “financial challenges” in the business.

Nov 12 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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Hospital leaders are objecting to draft recommendations issued Wednesday that would impose earlier and more draconian pay cuts to hospitals and doctors, and slice many programs that support hospital programs that serve the poor.

Nov 12 2010

New York Times

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Republicans in the Texas Legislature floated a radical cost-saving proposal — opting out of the federal Medicaid program — health care experts, economists and think tanks are trying to determine just how serious they are

Nov 12 2010

NPR.org

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While it appears that you won’t be able to use your FSA to buy aspirin or Tylenol — that’s not quite the case. What the law actually says is that you need a doctor from writing a prescription even for an over-the-counter drug

Nov 12 2010

Marketwatch

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Sixty-six percent of Americans say they support using “comparative effectiveness research” – but 75% are convinced the government and insurance companies will use treatment guidelines derived from such studies to control costs and ration care

Nov 11 2010

Kaiser Health News

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Medium and large companies project that, for the most part, they will hold onto their health plans. Just six percent of survey respondents with 500 or more employees said they are likely to drop their plans.

Nov 11 2010

Bloomberg

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Philips has been engaged in telehealth for more than 10 years and developed the Motiva platform, an interactive device that connects patients and health-care providers through a home television and broadband Internet.

Nov 11 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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Karen Ignagni, president and CEO of America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), said the focus of the regulation on providing ubiquitous healthcare access has “crowded out cost containment and quality.”

Nov 11 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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Significant variation in the way hospitals measure and report acquired bloodstream infections points to problems with payment incentives and databases that compare institutions

Nov 11 2010

New York Times

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Federal drug regulators on Wednesday unveiled 36 proposed warning labels for cigarette packages, including one showing a toe tag on a corpse