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Warning didn't change for-profit dialysis drug use
ReutersNEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Despite a strong warning from U.S. regulators in 2007, for-profit dialysis centers still gave their kidney failure patients more of a certain anemia drug than non-profit centers in 2008, says a new study. The researchers write...Tags: Anemia, Stroke, Heart Disease, Science and Technology, Government Health Care
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Emanuel to shift retired city workers to Obamacare
Clout StreetMayor Rahm Emanuel plans to start reducing health insurance coverage next year for more than 30,000 retired city workers and begin shifting them to President Barack Obama's new federal system. The move is aimed at saving the city money and comes as...Tags: Career and Workplace, Health Insurance, Pension and Welfare, AFSCME, Public Employees
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US Senate confirms Tavenner as Medicare/Medicaid chief
ReutersWASHINGTON, May 15 (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate on Wednesday confirmed Marilyn Tavenner, a former nurse and hospital company executive, as the first full-fledged administrator for the Medicare and Medicaid healthcare programs since 2006. In a rare show of...Tags: Washington, DC, Health Insurance, Politics, Health Care Reform (2009), U.S. Senate
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Senate confirms Tavenner to run health insurance programs with bigger budget than Pentagon
Associated PressWASHINGTON (AP) — A former intensive care nurse with a businesslike approach to a politically divisive public policy area won Senate approval Wednesday to run Medicare and other major health insurance programs. By an overwhelming 91-7 vote, the...Tags: Washington, DC, U.S. Congress, Health Insurance, Republican Party, Healthcare Policies
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Shuster: Time to repeal Obamacare
As we approach the summer months, we get closer and closer to 2014 and the dreaded launch of Obamacare. We still face major uncertainty in how this massive takeover of health care will actually work. Families and small businesses in the 9th District don'...Tags: Family, Health Insurance, Lawyers, Health Care Reform (2009), Judges
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Hospital revenues up, along with charity care
Hospitals in the region generally showed strengthened bottom lines in 2012, even as demand for charity care grew, a new report on the state of Pennsylvania's hospitals shows. Spending on charity and unpaid medical bills ticked up last year, but...
Tags: Health Insurance, Easton (Easton, Pennsylvania), Finance, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Government Health Care
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U.S. charges 89 people in $223 million Medicare fraud schemes
ReutersBy David Morgan WASHINGTON, May 14 (Reuters) - Federal officials charged 89 people including doctors, nurses and other medical professionals in eight U.S. cities on Tuesday with Medicare fraud schemes that the government said totaled $223 million in...Tags: Public Finance, U.S. Congress, Government Health Care, Government, FBI
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A health plan prescribed by 'Doc' Bowen
Instead of Obamacare, still so contentious and with all the pieces not yet in place, we could have had Bowencare, with the key piece put in place on July 1, 1988, by Ronald Reagan. It would be named for Dr. Otis R. Bowen, about whom there were many...
Tags: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, U.S. Congress, Health Care Reform (2009), Human Interest, Government Health Care
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U.S. charges 89 people with healthcare fraud
ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said on Tuesday the Department of Justice had charged 89 defendants in eight cities with healthcare fraud, and warned that budget cuts could limit future efforts to crack down on fraudulent claims....Tags: U.S. Congress, Brooklyn (New York City), Government, Government Health Care, Budget Control Act of 2011
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Obama's budget puts the onus on Ryan
WASHINGTON — When it comes to deficit reduction, President Barack Obama may have correctly taken the measure of Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles and U.S. corporate leaders; that's a reason why any deficit deal is more remote than ever. Two and a...Tags: Alan Greenspan, Public Finance, Bill Clinton, Washington, DC, Republican Party
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High hospital bills go public, but will it help?
WASHINGTON (AP) — For the first time, the government is publicly revealing how much hospitals charge, and the differences are astounding: Some bill tens of thousands of dollars more than others for the same treatment, even within the same city....
Tags: Mayo Clinic, American Hospital Association, Washington, DC, Consumers, Pneumonia
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Latest Michigan news, sports, business and entertainment
PRESSURE COOKER-AIRPORT ARREST Nephew: Man mistakenly jailed for pressure cooker DETROIT (AP) — The nephew of a Saudi man arrested at Detroit Metropolitan Airport says the case is a misunderstanding, and that the pressure cooker his uncle was...Tags: Nuclear Power, Finance, Government, Hypothermia, Fires
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