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May 07 2010

New York Times

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

The government’s 240-page report, published online Thursday by the President’s Cancer Panel, says the proportion of cancer cases caused by environmental exposures has been “grossly underestimated.”

May 06 2010

Washington Times

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Eighteen states have officially declined to participate in the new high-risk insurance pools: Why would any state want to participate?

May 06 2010

Washington Times

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

The massively disruptive reorganization of health insurance by the federal government is about to collide with state budgets, causing much collateral damage nationwide.

May 06 2010

Yahoo Finance

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

eHealthInsurance.com and eHealthMedicare.com, today announced that it has acquired privately-held PlanPrescriber, Inc. for approximately $28.7 million in cash

May 06 2010

Washington Post

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

President Obama signed legislation Wednesday that significantly expands health services available to veterans

May 06 2010

Washington Times

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Obamacare is a series of assignments to bureaucrats in the Department of Health and Human Services. It is emblematic of what scholars call the administrative state

May 06 2010

Wall Street Journal

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Next spring we get the official report on how the nation collectively fared in reaching the goals included in Healthy People 2010, an every-decade governmental assessment of various health indicators.

May 06 2010

Healthcare IT News

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Pay-for-performance programs could increase medical disparities experienced by racial and ethnic minorities and people of low socioeconomic status

May 06 2010

Washington Times

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Where did this entitlement thinking come from? Only a generation ago, everyone expected to pay his or her own medical bills.

May 06 2010

Washington Times

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

The mandated MLR may help facilitate tacit price collusion among health insurers by setting a common cost upon which a similar markup rate can be applied to determine premiums.

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