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Dec 22 2009

Bloomberg

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CVS Caremark Corp. said the company will offer genetic testing to help sales and profit by matching customers to the best drugs for them

Dec 22 2009

Bloomberg

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IBM has signed financing agreements with four health-care businesses whose clients are converting data into digital form

Dec 22 2009

Washington Post

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Pending healthcare bill include measures targeting industry profits and taxes and a move to ensure health insurers spend a certain amount on medical care

Dec 22 2009

New York Times

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Democrats grappling with deep internal divisions over abortion, the issue that most complicates drive to merge the Senate and House bills

Dec 22 2009

Wall Street Journal

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Several states — including Nebraska, Vermont and Massachusetts — won deals for more generous federal payments under the Medicaid program

Dec 22 2009

Washington Post

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Here’s a look at some of the concessions lawmakers and interest groups won in the latest version of the Senate’s health care overhaul bill

Dec 22 2009

Washington Post

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No one should contemplate without concern a vast new entitlement program when the federal debt has ballooned so dangerously

Dec 21 2009

ModernHealthcare

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CVS Caremark said it is taking an increased ownership interest in Generation Health, Inc., a genetic benefit management company

Dec 21 2009

New York Times

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Americans could soon be able to see a doctor without getting out of bed, in a modern-day version of the house call that takes place over the Web

Dec 21 2009

New York Times

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Gauging the Odds (and the Costs) in Health Screening

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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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