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Jun 14 2010

Health Affairs

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Health Affairs: A more comprehensive and realistic projection suggests that the new reform law will raise the deficit by more than $500 billion during the first ten years and by nearly $1.5 trillion in the following decade.

Jun 14 2010

New York Times

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The White House on Monday will issue new rules that strongly discourage employers from cutting health insurance benefits or increasing the costs of coverage to employees, administration officials say

Jun 14 2010

Wall Street Journal

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Draft regulations being developed by the Obama administration say more than half of employer health care plans may lose their grandfathered status and be required to comply with the health overhaul bill

Jun 12 2010

2010 Potpourri XXI

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Another potpourri of health care items, including telemedicine, mergers and acquisitions, unnecessary medical care, Massachusetts struggle with health insurance rates and health costs, e-visits, and a different suggestion for reforming…

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Jun 11 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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In new paper called “Pathways For Physician Success Under Health Care Payment And Delivery Reforms,” author says new payment reform proposals vary from the current payment system in at least one of five ways

Jun 10 2010

Healthcare IT News

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Healthrageous, a new personalized health technology company, has landed $6 million in financing to bring to market technologies developed at the Boston-based Center for Connected Health

Jun 10 2010

Will Reform Act Slow Health Costs?

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Two federal budget experts examine CBO's final analysis of the deficit effect of the health reform bill as passed and find that it is very likely that instead of a…

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Jun 08 2010

New York Times

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President Obama, concerned about deep skepticism over his landmark health care overhaul, is orchestrating an elaborate campaign to sell the public on the law

Jun 05 2010

2010 Potpourri XX

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More health care nuggets for the weekend, including personalized medicine, health reform, health insurance premiums, telemedicine, and community health centers.

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Jun 03 2010

CBO

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CBO Presentation: In CBO’s judgment, the health legislation enacted earlier this year does not substantially diminish that pressure.

Jun 03 2010

New York Times

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The debate about the Dartmouth work is important because a growing number of health policy researchers are finding that overhauling the nation’s health care system will be far harder and more painful than the Dartmouth work has long suggested.

Jun 03 2010

Washington Post

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The health-care overhaul may have slipped from the headlines but the gargantuan chore of putting the statute’s more than 2,000 pages of provisions into practice is keeping Washington’s policymakers and bureaucrats busier than ever.

Jun 03 2010

Wall Street Journal

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White House Senior Adviser David Axelrod argued earlier this year that health-care reform would become more popular after it passed, boosting Democrats in the midterm elections

Jun 03 2010

The Hill

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The White House on Wednesday rushed to defend the healthcare reform law after conservatives seized on Congressional Budget Office comments warning about unsustainable health spending

Jun 02 2010

Washington Post

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“The medical loss ratio and rebate program . . . have the potential to destabilize the marketplace and significantly limit consumer choices if the definitions and calculations are too restrictive,” according to NAIC President

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