Obamacare Will Not Fix Health Care! - Salt Lake City Weekly


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Obamacare Will Not Fix Health Care!
Salt Lake City Weekly
Private health insurance is the most wasteful way to pay for health care ever invented, with excess administrative costs in the United States of about $400 billion per year. In addition, the private health-insurance business model distorts incentives ...
Don't Deny Us Huffington Post (blog)
Health Care SPDR In Focus Ahead Of Obamacare Decision MarketWatch
HHS Signs $20M Public-Relations Contract to Bolster ObamaCare The New American
Tucson Citizen - United Liberty
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Insurers Must Improve Benefits for New Health Exchanges - Bloomberg

Insurers Must Improve Benefits for New Health Exchanges
Bloomberg
Half the people who buy their own health insurance, rather than depend on an employer, are in plans that have fewer benefits than what the US health-care law will require beginning in 2014, a study found. UnitedHealth Group Inc. (UNH), WellPoint Inc.
Half of Americans with individual health plans could gain better coverage ... Medical Xpress

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Obama Health Care Hangs on Business Clause Queried by Court - San Francisco Chronicle

Obama Health Care Hangs on Business Clause Queried by Court
San Francisco Chronicle
The bulk of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act falls comfortably within the commerce clause power, at least as it's been defined by the Supreme Court over the past seven decades. Health care accounts for 18 percent of the US economy and ...

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Doctor visits, drugs drive up health costs for privately insured - Chicago Tribune


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Doctor visits, drugs drive up health costs for privately insured
Chicago Tribune
"For the first time, we have comprehensive data on the privately insured. This lets us develop a clearer picture of what is truly driving health-care spending in the United States," said Martin Gaynor, chairman of the institute's governing board and ...
Health care law's innovations taking hold, panelists say NEWS.GNOM.ES (press release)
Group points out Health Care law benefits Cheboygan Daily Tribune
New Study Shows Healthcare Costs Rose in 2010 The New American
PolitiFact - Patch.com - Gant Daily
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Catholic Organizations Sue over Health Insurance Mandate - The Nonprofit Quarterly


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Catholic Organizations Sue over Health Insurance Mandate
The Nonprofit Quarterly
The US Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) is simply the cheerleader, but a total of 43 Catholic organizations and dioceses have gone to court against the federal government to challenge the Obama administration's health reform mandate that ...
Mich. Catholics sue over health care mandate Toledo Blade
Catholic Groups Challenge Affordable Care Act Courthouse News Service
FRC Supports Catholic Lawsuits Against HHS-Required Abortifacient and ... Sacramento Bee
Times LIVE - The New American
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REPORT: HEALTH CARE PRICES UP, USAGE DOWN - U-T San Diego


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REPORT: HEALTH CARE PRICES UP, USAGE DOWN
U-T San Diego
“For the first time, we have comprehensive data on the privately insured. This lets us develop a clearer picture of what is truly driving health care spending in the United States,” said Martin Gaynor, chairman of the institute's governing board and ...
The Rare Bipartisan Health Idea: Affordable Concierge Medicine Forbes
Study reveals factors that drive rise in health costs Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Hospitals drive healthcare inflation despite less utilization FierceHealthFinance

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MinuteClinic Signs Clinical Collaboration with Atlantic Health System for ... - Sacramento Bee

MinuteClinic Signs Clinical Collaboration with Atlantic Health System for ...
Sacramento Bee
By MinuteClinic WOONSOCKET, RI and MORRISTOWN, NJ, May 23, 2012 -- /PRNewswire/ -- MinuteClinic, the retail health care division of CVS Caremark (NYSE: CVS) and Atlantic Health System, one of the largest non-profit health care systems in New Jersey ...
MinuteClinic and Hackensack University Health Network Sign Clinical ... MarketWatch (press release)

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Viewpoints: The Promise And Perils Of Prostate Screening; Presidential ... - Kaiser Health News


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Viewpoints: The Promise And Perils Of Prostate Screening; Presidential ...
Kaiser Health News
After an exhaustive process, the US Preventive Services Task Force has announced its final recommendation on PSA-based prostate cancer screening. It finds that the known harms of screening outweigh the potential benefits for men who have no cancer ...
New PSA Recommendations from US Preventive Services Task Force are a ... MarketWatch (press release)
On prostate cancer, we can do better Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
The Health Edge The Cutting Edge
Medical Xpress
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5 Western US states shielding part of executions - Aiken Standard

5 Western US states shielding part of executions
Aiken Standard
TalkBack: DOE Insurance, Colored hair, Return documents 5/22/2012 9:38 PM DOE insurance The Department of Energy health insurance stipend for SRS retirees comes with no assurance of a cost-of-living increases, and DOE has al .

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MetLife targets global growth, gets bank subpoenas - Reuters


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MetLife targets global growth, gets bank subpoenas
Reuters
ANNUITY OVERHANG MetLife said it would shift its US business mix toward products like accident and health insurance, and away from more capital-intensive businesses like annuities, to help make its cash flow more predictable.
MetLife shifts focus as fears hit shares Financial Times
MetLife to Outline Strategic Plan to Drive Shareholder Value MarketWatch (press release)
MetLife to outline growth plan, eyes emerging markets CNBC.com

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