Archive for the ‘Health Insurance / Medical Insurance’ Category
Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010
Various personalities are weighing in on health legislation. CNBC interviewed billionaire investor Warren Buffett, who "called the nation's health care spending 'untenable,' comparing 'out of control' costs to a 'tapeworm eating at our economic body...
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Saturday, January 2nd, 2010
The American Nurses Association (ANA), the largest multi-purpose nursing organization in the country, applauds Senate lawmakers for passing H.R. 3590, "The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act." This landmark legislation was approved by a vote of 60-39...
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Thursday, December 3rd, 2009
News outlets report on legal immigrants and the cost of health reform in Massachusetts, new hospital fees in Ohio, coverage shortfalls in Tennessee and registered nurse practitioners in Florida...
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Thursday, December 3rd, 2009
News outlets report on legal immigrants and the cost of health reform in Massachusetts, new hospital fees in Ohio, coverage shortfalls in Tennessee and registered nurse practitioners in Florida...
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Tuesday, October 27th, 2009
Kaiser Health News staff writer Jenny Gold reports on issues related to using gender to set rates for large businesses. "Insurers say women under the age of 55 cost more to cover because they use more health services, and not just for maternal and infant care.
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Tuesday, September 29th, 2009
The Los Angeles Times reports that consumers in Canada are "beginning to flirt with private-sector medicine." "Hoping to capitalize on patients who might otherwise go to the U.S. for speedier care, a network of technically illegal private clinics and surgical centers has sprung up in British Columbia, echoing a trend in Quebec.
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Tuesday, August 18th, 2009
Nearly 1,000 nurses joined representatives from the American Nurses Association (ANA) and the White House to discuss the current state of healthcare reform and what it means for nurses and their patients. Healthcare reform is the single most important issue facing this country today; this conference call was a tremendous opportunity for nurses to speak directly with the White House officials shaping the current healthcare debate.
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Monday, August 17th, 2009
President Barack Obama is again heading West in hopes of winning support for his health reform push, The Associated Press reports. "Democrats have made recent election inroads in the region by successfully courting independents, Republican crossovers and conservative-to-moderate loyalists in their own party.
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Tuesday, May 19th, 2009
Summaries of efforts by groups outside the political arena to be included in the debate over health care reform legislation appear below. Nurses: Hundreds of nurses last week rallied on Capitol Hill in an attempt to have their voices and opinions on health care reform heard and included as lawmakers begin to draft legislation, Roll Call reports. The rally included the
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Wednesday, April 15th, 2009
The pace of job growth in the health care industry has "slowed sharply" this year, as hospitals, pharmaceutical firms and health insurers experience trouble related to the continuing recession, the Wall Street Journal reports. In each of the first three months of 2009, the health care sector added an average of 17,000 jobs, less than half the rate of increase for 2008.
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