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insurance
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#AHCJ2010 early coverage roundup
Apart from the announcement of the FDA’s infusion pump regulation push, the biggest appearances out of Health Journalism 2010 in…
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Lieberman: Pollack wrong, reform coverage lacking
Last week, Harold Pollack (bio), a University of Chicago professor who has been contributing to The New Republic‘s The Treatment…
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MMWR: Mass. reform narrowed insurance gap
Studying data from the Massachusetts Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System has led researchers to conclude that health care legislation in…
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Are insurers to blame for rising costs?
The San Francisco Chronicle‘s Carolyn Lochhead and Victoria Colliver use the recent furor over insurer Anthem’s rate hikes to explore…
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Open government directive bears fruit, databases
In December, 2009 Peter Orszag, director of the White House’s Office of Management and Budget, issued an Open Government Directive…
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How Health Policy lost popular support
Kaiser Health News staff writers, including Jordan Rau, Mary Agnes Carey, Julie Appleby and Phil Galewitz, teamed up to figure…
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Myth surrounds reform’s ‘Safeway Amendment’
Throughout the health care reform process, politicians have held up Safeway’s health incentive program as a model for future government…
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Reform bills would benefit Indian Health Service
Mark Trahant, writing for InvestigateWest, points out that, because it’s in both the House and Senate versions of the bill…
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Medical tourism expected to continue growth
The San Francisco Chronicle‘s Carolyn Lochhead writes that the draw of medical tourism lies with both transparency and affordability and…
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MPR builds health-reform impact calculator
As part of her series on the effects of health care reform on small businesses, Minnesota Public Radio’s Elizabeth Stawicki…