Big Health Insurer Agrees to Update Its Fee Data
By Danny Hakim and Reed Abelson
The New York Times
January 13, 2009
In a settlement with one of the
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Big Health Insurer Agrees to Update Its Fee Data
By Danny Hakim and Reed Abelson
The New York Times
January 13, 2009
In a settlement with one of the
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Big Health Insurer Agrees to Update Its Fee Data
By Danny Hakim and Reed Abelson
The New York Times
January 13, 2009
In a settlement with one of the
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Families USA has continued to be a source of highly credible studies demonstrating the severe deficiencies in health care financing in the United States. A
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Squeezed! Caught between Unemployment Benefits And Health Care Costs
Families USA
January 2009
By November 2008, more than 2.7 million people had joined the ranks of the unemployed
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For those who would like to have a better understanding of the various Congressional approaches to reform, this report is very helpful. The Lewin Group
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An Analysis of Leading Congressional Health Care Bills, 2007-2008
(Part I, Insurance Coverage)
By Sara R. Collins, Ph.D, Jennifer L. Nicholson, and Sheila D. Rustgi
The Commonwealth Fund
January
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A frequent complaint about government financing of health care is that government bureaucrats place an excessive administrative burden on the health care delivery system. This
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Change in law costs medical supply firms
By Karen Shideler
The Wichita Eagle
January 8, 2009
Businesses that provide durable medical equipment, such as hospital beds and bottled oxygen,
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So, another ho-hum report on the bad behavior of a private insurer. And more fines that for these insurers are only a nominal and routine
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Is Texas looking out for you? Health-care outsourcing is rolling on, but many patients suffer from silent treatment
By Gregg Jones
The Dallas Morning News
January 4, 2009
(UnitedHealth's)
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Is Texas looking out for you? Health-care outsourcing is rolling on, but many patients suffer from silent treatment
By Gregg Jones
The Dallas Morning News
January 4, 2009
(UnitedHealth's)
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This annual CMS report on health care spending is being celebrated in headlines throughout the nation as demonstrating a slowing in the growth of health