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Apr 26 2010

Wall Street Journal

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Barely a month later, are Democrats scrambling to pass a new bill that would impose price controls on insurance?

Apr 26 2010

Wall Street Journal

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Home health care—treating sick patients in their homes rather than paying for costly hospitalizations—is the fastest growing area of the health-care industry, aimed at saving billions of dollars every year.

Apr 26 2010

Wall Street Journal

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Health-care giant Johnson & Johnson said the recently enacted U.S. health-care overhaul would take a bite out of financial results this year and next

Apr 26 2010

Washington Times

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What’s it going to cost me?  That’s the single biggest unanswered question about Obama’s new health care overhaul law – and its weak spot

Apr 26 2010

Bloomberg

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Medicare Advantage plans, private insurance for the elderly, may survive losing $136 billion in government subsidies under Obama’s health-care law

Apr 26 2010

New York Times

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Con artists in several states are seizing on the public’s financial struggles and confusion about the recent health care overhaul

Apr 25 2010

xconomy.com

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Beringea, a Farmington Hills, MI, venture capital firm, has invested $6 million in InTouch Health, a telemedicine company based in Santa Barbara, CA

Apr 23 2010

Kaiser Family Foundation

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Majorities of Americans described themselves as “confused” about the new health care bill and acknowledge they don’t have enough information about it to grasp how it will affect their lives

Apr 23 2010

Bloomberg

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Baxter said earnings for the year will be reduced by an increase in Medicaid rebates and a change in the taxes for retiree prescription drug benefits required under the health- care law enacted in March

Apr 23 2010

Wall Street Journal

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A Duke oncologist is warning that the emphasis on comparative effectiveness studies may present obstacles for the field of cancer research

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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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