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Aug 26 2010

LA Times

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After months of being pummeled by Republican attacks on the new healthcare law, the Obama administration and its allies are striking back in an attempt to stem public disaffection with the health overhaul

Aug 26 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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After consumer marketing, cultivating lasting relationships with physicians is considered to be a hospital marketer’s greatest task

Aug 26 2010

HealthLeaders Media

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

61% of employers said they plan to offer consumer-directed plans in 2011. Employers know that CDHP enrollees are “healthier” than average and that they tend to sip rather than guzzle health services.

Aug 26 2010

Reuters

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California regulators on Wednesday approved WellPoint Inc’s plan to raise rates for individual health insurance policies by an average of 14 percent,

Aug 26 2010

Kaiser Health News

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Under section 2718, insurers that fail to achieve these “medical loss ratio” targets must rebate the difference between their actual expenditures and the target to their customers

Aug 25 2010

EON

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Healthsense, Inc., a leading provider of next-generation wireless sensors and remote monitoring solutions for the senior care market is pleased to announce the close of a growth capital financing round

Aug 25 2010

Bloomberg

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UnitedHealth Group Inc., the biggest U.S. insurer, and McKesson Corp., the largest drug distributor, are vying for billions of dollars in added sales by bulking up their information-technology units.

Aug 25 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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More than $22 million will go to the Medicare Rural Hospital Flexibility Program, which supports improvements in healthcare quality for any of 1,300 critical access hospitals, defined as hospitals with no more than 25 beds

Aug 25 2010

Fiscal Times

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A plan by Medicare to try to make it simpler for consumers to pick drug coverage could force 3 million seniors to switch plans next year whether they like it or not

Aug 24 2010

Bloomberg

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U.S. funding of embryonic stem cell research approved by the President was halted by a federal judge who ruled that the work violates a law passed to bar the destruction of human embryos

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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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