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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

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

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.

Feb 22 2010

New York Times

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Hundreds of people taking Avandia, a controversial diabetes medicine, needlessly suffer heart attacks and heart failure each month

Feb 22 2010

Wall Street Journal

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Health care reform bills that were passed in late 2009 would exacerbate the same inefficiencies and perverse incentives that have led to the current situation

Feb 19 2010

EON

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Nautic Partners, LLC, a private equity firm with more than $2.5 billion of capital under management, today announced that it has completed a recapitalization of Healthcare Payment Specialists

Feb 19 2010

property-casualty.com

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Toronto-based Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited will acquire workers’ compensation insurer Zenith National Insurance Corp. in Woodland Hills, Calif., in a $1.4 billion cash deal

Feb 19 2010

MassHighTech

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Health care management software firm MedVentive Inc. has boosted a venture round from $4.9 million to $10 million, according to regulatory filings.

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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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