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Mar 09 2010

Wall Street Journal

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Lawmakers working to craft a new comprehensive immigration bill have settled on a way to prevent employers from hiring illegal immigrants: a national biometric identification card all American workers would eventually be required to obtain

Mar 09 2010

Wall Street Journal

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The number of cosmetic-surgery procedures in the U.S. sagged for the second year in a row in 2009, according to an annual survey released Tuesday by a plastic surgeons’ association

Mar 09 2010

New York Times

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The Senate Finance Committee has opened an investigation into patient deaths and allegations of substandard treatment at specialty medical centers that treat chronically ill patients

Mar 09 2010

Washington Post

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Prospects are good for resolving a dispute over abortion that has led some House Democrats to threaten to withhold support of  health care overhaul, a key Michigan Democrat said Monday

Mar 09 2010

Washington Post

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In the 1980s hospital administrators were required to bundle charges into DRGs – physician charges, however, are paid separately for each visit they make to a hospital patient

Mar 09 2010

Wall Street Journal

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Doctors and hospitals are getting a new test that many think will help fight ovarian cancer, one of the deadliest cancers, by helping them to more quickly distinguish cancerous from benign growths.

Mar 09 2010

Bloomberg

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Obama told an audience outside Philadelphia yesterday that insurers have calculated that higher premiums can more than make up for the loss of customers who can’t afford coverage

Mar 09 2010

StreetInsider

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Gentiva Health Services, Inc. (Nasdaq: GTIV) announced today that it has acquired Mississippi-based Heart to Heart Hospice

Mar 08 2010

HealthLeadersMedia

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Get ready for an explosion in smart medical devices, infection-fighting nanotechnology, virtual biopsies and colonoscopies, bionic organs, and science fiction operating rooms

Mar 08 2010

Wall Street Journal

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What if Obama’s sanctioned “reconciliation” gambit is really a false-flag operation, meant to lure House Democrats into voting for a bill that they would otherwise oppose?

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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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