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Mar 30 2010

Wall Street Journal

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Better beat the crowd and find a doctor. The landmark health overhaul will bring primary-care physicians, already in short supply in parts of the country, millions more newly insured patients in the next few years.

Mar 30 2010

New York Times

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In a ruling with potentially far-reaching implications for the patenting of human genes, a judge on Monday struck down a company’s patents on two genes linked to an increased risk of breast and ovarian cancer.

Mar 30 2010

New York Times

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So what is buried in those pages? Here are some thoughts from health care experts on what the changes will mean for Americans, sick and well alike.

Mar 30 2010

New York Times

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Now mental health advocates are almost giddy. The law signed by President Obama last week expands parity to a much wider pool, making it possible for millions more people to get the same coverage for substance abuse and illnesses

Mar 30 2010

New York Times

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Tucked inside the huge health reform bill signed into law last week were many surprising and little-noticed provisions that will affect consumers in ways large and small.

Mar 30 2010

Washington Times

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The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) became the first medical society to sue to overturn the newly enacted health care bill

Mar 29 2010

Wall Street Journal

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It makes sense for a company that sells printers to sell the ink cartridges. Why shouldn’t the company that sells the devices that diabetics use also sell the insulin that they consume to control their disease?

Mar 29 2010

Wall Street Journal

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A three-month-old baby suffering from shortness of breath recently was checked into a small hospital in the Haitian capital. A radiologist at work in his New York office diagnosed that the child’s lungs were collapsing.

Mar 29 2010

Washington Post

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In 2006, CMS tried to limit unjustified billing in the ultra-high categories. But the effort backfired when nursing home operators found a loophole that made it easier to put residents in those categories.

Mar 29 2010

Bloomberg

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Donald M. Berwick, a Harvard University scholar and long-time critic of U.S. health care, will be thrust into the political fight over the overhaul law as President Barack Obama’s choice to run Medicare and Medicaid.