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insurance
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Post-reform plans may still be too spendy for some
Kaiser Health News’ Jordan Rau reports that, even if current health care proposals (Rau focuses on the House bill) were…
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More Health Policy myth Whac-A-Mole
As part of his Health Care Fact Check series, the Cleveland Plain Dealer‘s Stephen Koff looks into the theory that…
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Whole Foods CEO linked to health-care industry
Laurie Bennett of Muckety looks at John Mackey, CEO and co-founder of Whole Foods, author of op-ed in the Wall…
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Documentary tonight examines health care system
The documentary “Money-Driven Medicine,” based on a 2006 book of the same name by Maggie Mahar, will air tonight on…
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Insurers wade (calmly) into the town hall fray
The Wall Street Journal‘s Vanessa Fuhrmans and Avery Johnson shed some light on the insurance industry’s low-key effort to ensure…
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Lieberman, Schwitzer on Health Policy, coverage
FAIR, a media watch group, interviewed AHCJ members Trudy Lieberman and Gary Schwitzer in an attempt to cut through the…
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Two counties illustrate health care disparities
Anna Tong and Phillip Reese of The Sacramento Bee write about health care disparities. They use two local counties to…
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Doctor’s offices consumed by insurance hassles
Tamara Keith of the public radio program “Marketplace” went into a doctor’s office to find out where the money’s being…
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Insurance industry positioned to profit from reform
In BusinessWeek, Chad Terhune and Keith Epstein write that major insurance companies have already succeeded in defining the debate over…
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Making sense of Health Policy rumors
The New York Times‘ Robert Pear and David M. Herszenhorn do their best to help regular folks understand the increasingly…