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insurance
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Health care reform for the young and healthy
As part of the ProPublica Eye on Health Care Reform blog’s ongoing “What Health Care Reform Means For…” series, reporters…
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Health care bill moves forward
Following the Senate vote on the health care bill, reporters have rushed to cover the latest developments. Here is just…
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Series examines life expectancy disparities
In their Contra Costa Times series “Shortened Lives,” Suzanne Bohan and Sandy Kleffman start by profiling three different people from…
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Insurers trick Facebookers into writing Congress
This year, Facebook launched a virtual currency that allows users to buy extra items in popular games. Now, according to…
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Utah tests hybrid bundled payment system
The Salt Lake Tribune‘s Lisa Rosetta explains Utah’s new bulk payment pilot program, which aims to drive down costs by…
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Report: Prescription drug prices doubled in 10 years
Prescription drug prices doubled from 1996 to 2006, according to new inflation-adjusted numbers from the Agency for Healthcare Research and…
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Bankruptcy: Health insurance for the desperate
In The New York Times, reporter Kevin Sack visits Nashville, Tenn. to tell stories from the front lines of health…
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Rounding up some of the latest health coverage
With good topics for the blog flooding in and a short holiday week to get them all posted, I’m taking…
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Two doors, two classes of service at clinic
Two doors represent two different tiers of service in one New York City clinic, according to MSNBC.com reporter Bill Dedman.…
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One town’s end-of-life talks lead to living wills
NPR’s Joseph Shapiro has unearthed an outlier in the nation’s health care cost numbers, one which demonstrates the reality of…