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According to a recent poll, one-third of Americans are taking a pass on necessary medical care due to rising costs; even more shocking, this number includes those who have health insurance.... Read more...

> Efforts to bring more specialists to Florida's EDs seem to be at an impasse, with hospitals reluctant to form a specialist-sharing network. Read more...

As the presidential campaign gets hotter, and healthcare emerges as a central issue, candidates are beginning to attack Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's record as leader of her husband's failed health... Read more...

> An activist group has sued to get its hands on records from the healthcare task force led by then-first lady Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton. Read more...

Though it's been more than a decade after her healthcare initiative failed, health reform proposals by presidential hopeful Hillary Rodham Clinton still get more attention than most. And while the... Read more...

A new study released by the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee suggests that the healthcare industry is taking a leading role in funding the campaigns of this season's crop of presidential hopefuls. The CNA/NNOC analysis concludes that healthcare industry players contributed $3.7 million to current candidates during the first quarter of 2007. It also notes that the industry--which it defines as including drug and insurance companies, doctors, hospitals, …

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A bill making the rounds in the U.S. Senate would open up Medicare data to private organizations that want to use it for research and analysis. The bill, sponsored by Sens. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) and Judd Gregg (R-NJ), would make claims, enrollment, survey, assessment and other available to private groups hoping to measure care quality, efficiency and effectiveness. Other stakeholders would then have the right to request reports from the research organizations. The research organizations …

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Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) got the trouncing of a lifetime when she spearheaded health reform efforts in the 90s. But as a presidential hopeful, she can't avoid the issue, so she's taking it head on once again. Here's some of her current ideas for transforming the health system. Article

The U.S. Senate is holding hearings this week on a bill which would give the FDA the ability to approve generic versions of biologic drugs. If approved, the measure could potentially save the federal health programs $71 billion over the next ten years, according to some estimates. To date, the FDA has said that it doesn't have the power to approve generic versions of these very expensive drugs, which include insulin, human growth hormone and therapies that treat multiple sclerosis. (It …

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Former President Bill Clinton is letting it be known that Hillary Clinton's presidential platform will include some aggressive healthcare proposals. While her last round of healthcare reform efforts 14 years ago, an initiative derisively dubbed "Hillary Care," did not make it out of the gate, Bill Clinton defends his and his wife's proposals as a reasonable ones which were grossly distorted by their opponents. Regardless, Hillary should bring the savvy borne of her previous struggle …

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