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Health Issues

Many States Not Prepared for Health Care Law

Only 13 states and the District of Columbia have formally expressed their intention to set up health insurance exchanges...

Biosimilars: The Precarious Battle between Cost-Centric Health Care Policy and Patient-Centric Care

Incentivizing or requiring patients to purchase biosimilar drugs stifles medical innovation and economic investment, which ends up hurting patients in the long run...

ObamaCare's Tax Raid on Medical Devices

According to the Congressional Budget Office, there will be no increase in sales to offset the added $30 billion cost from the medical device tax...

Medical Students Lack Knowledge of Health Care Overhaul

In January 2011, an online survey of 1,235 medical students was taken; 40 percent of students said they did not understand the basic components of the health care reform law...

Urgent Care Centers Are Booming

One in five visits to the emergency room can be treated at an urgent care center, saving up to $4.4 billion annually in health care costs...

Big Firms Overhaul Health Coverage

Sears Holdings Corp. and Darden Restaurants Inc. are changing the way they provide health insurance -- giving employees a fixed sum of money and allowing them to choose their medical coverage and insurer from an online marketplace...

Medicare Bills Rise as Records Turn Electronic

Overall, hospitals that received government incentives to adopt electronic records showed a 47 percent rise in Medicare payments at higher levels from 2006 to 2010...

States Seek a Middle Ground on Medicaid

Some states are looking into partially expanding their Medicaid programs to receive federal subsidies...

ObamaCare -- An Explosion of Regulatory Burdens

There are over 80 million hours of rules and regulations that American businesses and families have to comply with under the Affordable Care Act...

Higher Prices by Hospitals, Other Providers, Drove 2011 Spending Increases

Spending on medical care for Americans with job-based insurance rose 4.6 percent last year...


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