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Shifting Health Care Landscape Changes How Doctors Practice, And For Whom
News from the health care marketplace includes changes in how doctors practice — they are increasingly seeing patients via webcam and working for insurers in insurer-run doctor offices.The Wall Street...
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Post-Newtown: Parents, Politicians, Health Officials Press For More Mental...
Los Angeles Times: Connecticut Shooter’s Problems All Too Familiar To Many ParentsFor parents around the U.S., the mass school shooting in Connecticut fueled fears about how to ensure the safety of...
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Viewpoints: Playing Chicken On Entitlements; ‘Getting Serious’ About Mental...
The New York Times: Playing Taxes Hold ’Em This is no time for a Grand Bargain, because the Republican Party, as now constituted, is just not an entity with which the president can make a serious deal....
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Boehner Fails To Rally GOP, Pulls His Tax Plan Back
The House speaker was under pressure from conservatives who wanted bigger cuts in entitlement spending.The New York Times: Boehner Cancels Tax Vote In Face Of G.O.P. RevoltSpeaker John A. Boehner’s...
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Republicans Press Obama Administration For Information On Exchange Contractors
GOP members of the Senate Finance Committee say they want more information from the Department of Health and Human Services, even as House and Senate GOP lawmakers pressed for details about the...
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Health Law Seen Boosting Xerox, HP
When Tennessee Medicaid Director Darin Gordon walks around his department in an office park north of downtown Nashville, he sees dozens of workers from technology giant Hewlett-Packard. HP’s employees...
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First Edition: December 21, 2012
Today’s early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including reports about the House Republicans’ failure to pass Speaker John Boehner’s tax and federal debt plan.Kaiser Health News:...
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Medicare Rolls Out Quality Bonuses And Penalties
Under a new program created by the health law, hospitals can get larger payments — or payment cuts — based on the quality of care they provide.Kaiser Health News: Medicare Discloses Hospitals’ Bonuses,...
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Political Cartoon: ‘Pole Position?’ By Jimmy Margulies
Kaiser Health News provides a fresh take on health policy developments with “Pole Position?” By Jimmy Margulies.Meanwhile, here is today’s health policy haiku:A CHRISTMAS MIRACLE?Fix the SGR:That’s...
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Feds Approve Minn. Exchange, Insurers Scramble To Develop Health Plans
This story is part of a reporting partnership that includes Minnesota Public Radio, and Kaiser Health News.ST. PAUL, Minn. — The federal government’s conditional approval Thursday for Minnesota to...
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