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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.

Jul 16 2010

Wall Street Journal

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The first round of requirements for what constitutes “meaningful use” of digitized medical practices and procedures were released on Tuesday

Jul 16 2010

New York Times

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Federal regulators are proposing changes to expand use of the $400 million government program that subsidizes Internet services at hospitals, clinics and other health care facilities in rural areas.

Jul 16 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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Under new rules will be required to cover preventive services for such procedures as blood pressure, diabetes and cholesterol tests, many cancer screenings, routine vaccinations, prenatal care, and regular wellness visits for infants and children

Jul 16 2010

Bloomberg

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There is “less than a 50-50” chance Congress will approve the $11.6 billion in extra federal Medicaid assistance U.S. states have included in their current budgets