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insurance
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‘Main Street’ informed, skeptical on Health Policy
In her blog on CJR.org, AHCJ Immediate Past President Trudy Lieberman updates what is becoming an annual franchise: Her summer…
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CPI: Insurers prepare $20 mil lobbying effort
On the Center for Public Integrity’s PaperTrail blog, Peter Stone reports that five of biggest insurers in America are preparing…
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How reform will affect America, group by group
In Health Affairs (AHCJ members get free access), economist Joseph Newhouse considers how health care reform will affect four major…
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Reform may worsen ER crowding
Associated Press medical reporter Carla K. Johnson has found that, contrary to common assumptions, emergency rooms could become even more…
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Citizen journalists assist with health insurance story
Journalists should take advantage of the wisdom of their readers, according to a post on Cover Business Better, the blog…
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Waiting period affects 2 million disabled Americans
Nearly 2 million disabled Americans “fall into a twilight with the first monthly Social Security disability payment, for they then…
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Healthcare.gov coming July 1
KHN’s Phil Galewitz previews the July 1 launch of a federal website he says “will give consumers a list of…
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Lundberg’s list of why health care costs are rising
While people on the streets, experts and legislators debate the causes of rising health care costs, George Lundberg, M.D., editor-at-large…
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New data on insurance coverage released
The first full-year 2009 numbers about health insurance coverage from the NCHS’ National Health Interview Survey have been released. The…
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Insider offers view of health innovation
Blogging for the Harvard Business Review, Simon Stevens (chairman of the UnitedHealth Center for Health Policy & Modernization) seeks to…