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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

Mar 05 2010

Washington Post

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

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

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

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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

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

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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

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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

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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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