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Jul 19 2010

New York Times

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The Obama administration and its allies now defend the requirement as an exercise of the government’s “power to lay and collect taxes.”

Jul 19 2010

Fiscal Times

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In spite of high unemployment numbers, there’s a lot of fat in the workplace—and it’s costing a bundle

Jul 19 2010

Reuters

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Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co was trumped by a higher-than-expected offer by TPG and Carlyle following last-minute negotiations at the weekend with Healthscope

Jul 19 2010

Wall Street Journal

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Many worry there won’t be enough physicians to care for the estimated 30 million more patients who will be insured under the health law passed earlier this year. The Association of American Medical Colleges estimates a shortage that could reach 150,000 doctors by 2025

Jul 19 2010

Politico

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A group of Democratic lawmakers wants to use the immigration reform debate to fix one of the most hotly contested aspects of the health care law — provisions that bar immigrants from using new government programs to get coverage

Jul 19 2010

Wall Street Journal

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Insurance regulators are drafting rules that will effectively determine how lucrative the individual market will be by dictating how much leeway insurers have to calculate their “medical-loss ratio”

Jul 19 2010

Washington Post

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Massachusetts – aside from squeezing take-home pay (employers provide almost 70 percent of insurance), higher costs have automatically shifted government priorities toward health care and away from everything else

Jul 19 2010

New York Times

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As the Obama administration begins to enact the new national health care law, the country’s biggest insurers are promoting affordable plans with reduced premiums that require participants to use a narrower selection of doctors or hospitals

Jul 16 2010

New York Times

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For several years now and with a growing messianic fervor, physicians and health care experts have been responding to the need to deliver more efficient and better primary care with one response: patient-centered medical homes

Jul 16 2010

Reuters

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The American Cancer Society and three federal agencies named 19 chemicals and shift work on Thursday as potential causes of cancer that deserve more investigation.