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Mar 08 2010

Bloomberg

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The President this week kicks off a final push to salvage a health-care overhaul plan that faces opposition from the public and resistance from members of his own Democratic Party

Mar 05 2010

Quest Diagnostics

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Two of the nation’s largest healthcare information networks, Quest Diagnostics and Surescripts(R) announced an agreement to pioneer the formation of an integrated service to make laboratory and prescription information broadly and easily accessible to physicians.

Mar 05 2010

BusinessWire

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Hewitt Associates announced it has acquired Senior Educators Ltd., a trusted, Web-based retiree medical insurance exchange that provides unbiased assistance to Medicare recipients seeking high-quality, affordable supplemental insurance products

Mar 05 2010

Milwaukee Business Journal

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Medical imaging technology company Merge Healthcare Inc. has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Boston radiology technology provider Amicas Inc. for $248 million in cash

Mar 05 2010

Washington Post

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Democrats set out Thursday to thwart defections and solidify support for their health care overhaul bill, focusing on skeptical rank-and-file House Democrats antsy about voting for the unpopular measure

Mar 05 2010

Wall Street Journal

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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