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Feb 23 2010

Bloomberg

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The President, seeking to break an impasse over legislation, proposed a plan that includes the first Medicare tax on capital gains and higher fees on pharmaceutical companies

Feb 22 2010

RTT News

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AMICAS Inc.  filed amended proxy materials with the Securities and Exchange Commission or “SEC” disclosing that it has received an unsolicited proposal from Merge Healthcare Inc.

Feb 22 2010

ModernHealthcare

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The Obama administration this morning released a roughly $950 billion health reform proposal – it increases coverage subsidies, requires greater accountability for health insurance companies and picks up most of the tab for a deep expansion of Medicaid

Feb 22 2010

Washington Post

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The use of high-tech diagnostic imaging in emergency rooms has quadrupled since the mid-1990s, according to a new government report released Wednesday

Feb 22 2010

Washington Post

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According to a new analysis, the conventional wisdom about the Cadillac  tax is wrong: The tax would actually fall equally on nonunion plans.

Feb 22 2010

Wall Street Journal

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Some governors, frustrated by halted federal efforts to overhaul the U.S. health-care system, are introducing their own changes at the state level.

Feb 22 2010

Reuters

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The president will propose giving the U.S. government new power to block health insurers from attempting excessive premium hikes in the plan to be posted on the WH website at 10 a.m. EST

Feb 22 2010

New York Times

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Dozens of “targeted” drugs are emerging from laboratories of pharmaceutical companies – putting them to their truest test falls to a small band of doctors running experimental drug trials

Feb 22 2010

New York Times

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Coming soon to daytime television: America’s long-running civic drama over how to provide better health care to more of its people without breaking the bank

Feb 22 2010

Bloomberg

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Obama’s health-care proposal will include new rules for insurance companies and greater oversight on the industry, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said in an interview.

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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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