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Mar 05 2010

Wall Street Journal

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Following Thursday’s meeting at the White House between major health insurance CEOs and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, the managed care CEOs are out with some zingers.

Mar 05 2010

Wall Street Journal

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

The government’s top health official summoned health-insurance chief executives to the White House Thursday and told them they need to disclose more data justifying sharp premium increases.

Mar 05 2010

Bloomberg

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

U.S. House leaders are facing the possible defection of about a dozen anti-abortion Democrats from a health-care bill

Mar 04 2010

Bloomberg

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Backed by employer medical insurance, couple fights cancer – how expensive? $618,616, two- thirds of it for the final 24 months, much of it for treatments that no one can say helped extend his life

Mar 04 2010

Bloomberg

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Hospital billings for a scan of the chest ranged from $550 in April 2001 in Portland to $3,232 in 2006 and 2007 at a hospital in Philadelphia

Mar 04 2010

New York Times

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Jobs in health care, education, government and nonprofit organizations are likely to grow in coming years because of an aging population, pending retirements and demographic changes

Mar 04 2010

Wall Street Journal

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

The Food and Drug Administration plans to increase prosecutions of pharmaceutical and food industry executives as part of an effort to refocus its criminal division

Mar 04 2010

Wall Street Journal

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Rep. Ryan: the claim that the health plan will cost “about $100 billion per year” is unlikely – it is far more probable deficits are $460 billion over the first 10 years, and $1.4 trillion over the next 10

Mar 04 2010

Bloomberg

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

With Democrats likely to use reconciliation and try to push through health-care legislation, experience underscores how unpredictable and acrimonious the path can be

Mar 04 2010

Reuters

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The small study of about 140 overweight or obese women showed that those on diets “appropriate” for their genetic makeup lost more weight than those on less appropriate diets