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NewsHealth reforms get qualified business support
As might be expected, business groups continue to be cautious about supporting health reforms, though some CEOs of major companies have developed data that argues in favor of some current reforms.... Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: Public expects health reforms to kick in sooner than Congress plans
A new Kaiser Family Foundation poll indicates that about half of Americans think that Democratic healthcare reforms, if passed, will take effect within a year. The problem is, most reform provisions... Read more...
What good is healthcare reform without enough doctors?
There appears to be one significant gap that the Senate Finance Committee's healthcare reform bill doesn't address: The shortage of doctors. The American Academy of Family Physicians predicts that... Read more...
Senate Finance Committee passes healthcare bill
Get ready for a healthcare smack down later this month. With the Senate Finance Committee's 14-9 approval of its healthcare reform bill yesterday, the measure will move to a full floor debate,... Read more...
Healthcare reform to pass by year end
President Obama will sign a finalized piece of healthcare reform legislation within the next two months, current and former members of Congress predicted at a healthcare recent forum held by Politics... Read more...
Healthcare reform cuts alarm hospitals, insurers
Fewer Americans are being covered under the reform bill up for vote today, according to a report in the Chicago Tribune. A series of compromises designed to control costs and limit federal subsidies... Read more...
Pharma: U.S. health reform could hinder new drug development
While the healthcare reform debate rages in the United States, some in other countries fear the outcome will stifle the discovery of new drugs. Some health economists, particularly within the... Read more...
Facilities designer: Medicare is 'the biggest Ponzi scheme of all time'
America is falling victim to the "the biggest Ponzi scheme of all time," according to Marc Sauvé, senior healthcare strategist for Nashville, TN-based architecture firm Gresham, Smith and... Read more...
Bill Frist: 'There will likely be a public plan as a backup'
Bill Frist has been keeping busy these days. Between chatting up former colleagues on both sides of the aisle about healthcare reform and heading up the acquisitions, divestitures and portfolios for... Read more...
Oregon legislator still fighting for end-of-life benefit despite controversy
Death panels. The name suggests a scene from the grim totalitarian vision put forth in 1984, or perhaps the plot from Logan's Run, where people agree freely to be killed by a certain date to maintain... Read more...
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