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Sep 20 2010

New York Times

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IS your social network making you fat? Are your friends and family influencing you to smoke and drink more, or to sleep less? Can social networks be harnessed to improve it? These are seminal questions in “network science”

Sep 20 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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Annual performance-based incentive plans are growing for physicians. The survey found that 92% of  offer incentive plans to their physicians, up from 75% in 2009.

Sep 20 2010

Politico

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Republicans are zeroing in on a nibble-around-the-edges strategy — a long-term, but so far loosely defined, campaign to choke off funding piece by piece and weaken the law
Sep 20 2010

Wall Street Journal

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The confusion is expected to get worse next year, with the first wave of baby boomers turning 65 and with changes in Medicare under the new health-care law

Sep 20 2010

Wall Street Journal

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Workers are getting a new long-term-care insurance option. But with many details yet to be worked out, it may be too soon to tell how much impact it will have.

Sep 20 2010

Fiscal Times

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Republicans are promising to repeal and replace President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul if they win control of Congress. But with what?

Sep 17 2010

Fierce Finance

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments
InstaMed, the industry leading Healthcare Payments Network, today announced that it has raised $6 million in growth capital.
Sep 17 2010

Washington Post

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Federal health experts rejected a highly anticipated weight loss pill Thursday that was thought to offer a safer way to shed pounds than older medications linked to dangerous side effects

Sep 17 2010

Fiscal Times

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Generic medications saved the government and Medicare prescription drug plan beneficiaries about $33 billion in 2007, according to a Congressional Budget Office report

Sep 17 2010

HealthLeaders Media

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

A health insurance premium tax credit that is part of the ACA could assist more than 28.6 million Americans in purchasing  healthcare coverage—the value of the tax credits is expected to be about $110.1 billion during the first year.

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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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