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Mar 08 2010

Wall Street Journal

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

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?

Mar 08 2010

New York Times

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

80 percent of practicing physicians rely entirely on paper records that can be misplaced or lost, or unavailable in an emergency – but the future holds potential for a major improvement

Mar 08 2010

Washington Times

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

The escalating battle among Democrats over abortion has grabbed headlines, but a few other intraparty disputes are endangering President Obama’s proposed health care overhaul

Mar 08 2010

New York Times

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

This really is the home stretch in the health care debate.  So here is a handy road map for the next three weeks — a sort of GPS guide to the health care finish line

Mar 08 2010

New York Times

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

As the battle over the state budget becomes more intense, Mayor has stepped up his call for the Legislature to pass a penny-per-ounce tax on soda

Mar 08 2010

Wall Street Journal

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Democrats questioned whether health-care overhaul would curb health costs, highlighting a difficult issue that the White House and congressional leaders must address

Mar 08 2010

Bloomberg

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

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

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

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

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

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

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

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

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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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