News tagged with health insurance system
US top court rejects quick health care law ruling
The US Supreme Court rejected Virginia's request Monday to immediately rule on whether President Barack Obama's sweeping health care reform is constitutional.
Apr 25, 2011 |
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New site lets employers put health care out to bid
(AP) -- Self-insured businesses looking to cut out the middleman when it comes to health care have a new way to solicit bids directly from doctors or hospitals.
Mar 27, 2011 |
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Can medical malpractice reform really hold down health care spending?
Maxwell Mehlman, professor of law and medicine, says there's no evidence that reducing a victim's compensation will save money.
Mar 18, 2011 |
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Cost-effectiveness research needs to be considered in developing new medical technology
Cost-effectiveness analysis should play a bigger role in the American health care system, argued a University of Chicago researcher Friday at the annual conference of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Feb 18, 2011 |
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New state scorecard on children's health care finds wide geographic disparities
Two years after the reauthorization and expansion of the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), a new Commonwealth Fund state-by-state scorecard evaluating how the health care system is working for children finds that ...
Feb 02, 2011 |
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AP-GfK Poll: Raw feelings ease over health law
(AP) -- As lawmakers shaken by the shooting of a colleague return to the health care debate, an Associated Press-GfK poll finds raw feelings over President Barack Obama's overhaul have subsided.
Jan 16, 2011 |
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Half of Americans will be diabetic or pre-diabetic by 2020
(PhysOrg.com) -- A recent study by US health insurance giant UnitedHealth Group Inc. predicts that by 2020 over half of Americans will have either pre-diabetic conditions or type 2 diabetes if current trends ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Nov 24, 2010 |
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Canada, US immigrants have less health care access than natives: study
In spite of Canada’s universal medical coverage, immigrants to that country have less access to health care than native-born Canadians for certain procedures, a new study finds. In fact, immigrants have about the same access ...
Sep 03, 2010 |
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Germany cuts health care spending, raises premiums
(AP) -- Faced with a ballooning deficit in Germany's health care system, Chancellor Angela Merkel's government decided Tuesday to raise premiums and cut into the profits of doctors, dentists, hospitals and pharmaceutical ...
Jul 06, 2010 |
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US ranks last among 7 countries on health system performance
Despite having the most expensive health care system, the United States ranks last overall compared to six other industrialized countries—Australia, Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom—on ...
Jun 23, 2010 |
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Few health reform options would have covered more people at lower cost than new law, study finds
The recently enacted federal health care reform law provides health insurance coverage to the largest number of Americans while keeping federal costs as low as reasonably possible, according to a new analysis from the RAND ...
Jun 08, 2010 |
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Health care reform 'important' even to those who want new law repealed
Fifty-eight percent of Americans (96 percent of Republicans, 10 percent of Democrats and 54 percent of Independents) support repealing the health care reform legislation that was signed into law by President Barack Obama ...
Apr 13, 2010 |
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2 million eager for health care on parents' plans
(AP) -- Congress voted to overhaul the health care system on a Sunday. On Monday, Patti Lawson e-mailed her employer's human resources office to ask how soon she could get her 22-year-old daughter back on ...
Apr 01, 2010 |
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Senate health care bill to include public option (Update)
(AP) -- Health care legislation heading for the Senate floor will give millions of Americans the option of purchasing government-run insurance coverage, Majority Leader Harry Reid announced Monday, although ...
Oct 26, 2009 |
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Time running out for bipartisan health compromise
(AP) -- Time is running out for a two-party compromise on health care as a bipartisan group of six Finance Committee senators considers a new proposal that might be the last, best hope for an overhaul agreement.
Sep 08, 2009 |
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