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Sep 14 2010

Wall Street Journal

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An effort to repeal a tax provision of the new health-care overhaul law that has angered small businesses would also divert billions of dollars from prevention and other programs.

Sep 14 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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Hospitalists are among the fastest growing specialties, and a growing number of them are directly employed by hospitals.

Sep 14 2010

Wall Street Journal

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The venture capital industry is widely expected to contract over the next few years, as limited partners grow increasingly impatient with under-performing firms

Sep 14 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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In a sternly worded message to health insurers, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said last week that the federal government will not “stand idly by as insurers blame their premium hikes on the new healthcare reform legislation.

Sep 14 2010

Washington Post

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The nation’s health system can’t be transformed by rationing medical care, President Barack Obama’s new Medicare chief said Monday in his first major speech.

Sep 14 2010

ehealthnews.eu

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Telehealth deployments across the UK have shown that daily health monitoring helps patients to understand their condition, reduce anxiety, and ultimately prevent unnecessary hospital admissions

Sep 14 2010

Wall Street Journal

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Cigna Corp. is expanding overseas, leading a push by health insurers to find growth amid uncertainties at home.

Sep 14 2010

Kaiser Health News

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Key Health Law Provisions Begin Sept. 23

Sep 14 2010

Wall Street Journal

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Two new devices—one that deflates fat cells, one that destroys them—have just been cleared for “body contouring” in doctors’ offices by the FDA

Sep 13 2010

Washington Post

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

The head of the nonpartisan economic unit at Medicare that produced the original cost report says the White House number “does not provide a meaningful or accurate indication” of the effect of the health care law.

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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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