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Living kidney donors may be blocked from getting health coverage
Right now, it's very difficult for many patients awaiting transplants to get the organ they need, including those who need kidneys. The charitable living donors who sign up to share one of their... Read more...
AARP in hot seat over its insurance reform lobbying
AARP, the 40-million member senior citizen advocacy group, is coming under increasing scrutiny from congressional Republicans who accuse it of having a conflict of interest in taking sides in the... Read more...
Critics continue to take aim at AHIP's study
American's Health Insurance Plans' scathing report, which claims that the new health care reform legislation could increase premiums by 18 percent more over the next decade, continues to act as a... 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...
Insurance industry attacks healthcare legislation
Unwilling to accept the new momentum behind healthcare legislation lying down, the health insurance industry launched a new attack against the healthcare legislation drafted by the Senate Finance... Read more...
Healthcare co-ops losing traction in Senate
The Senate Finance Committee's bill recently gained momentum from the Congressional Budget Office's (CBO) favorable cost analysis, but the health insurance co-ops proposed in the bill may be the... Read more...
CBO: Some undocumented immigrants will get insurance under reform
I guess it comes down to a case of you win some, you lose some. While it remains true that the formal language of key health reform proposals doesn't authorize health insurance coverage for illegal... Read more...
Kathleen Sebelius - 9 People to Watch in Healthcare
Name: Kathleen Sebelius Location: Topeka, Kansas Profession: Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services; former governor of Kansas Fast facts: Before being confirmed by the Senate as... Read more...
Study: Health premiums up 95 percent since 2000
Here's a new health expense number that has a certain horror-movie quality, even to those of us who have followed the business for decades. According to a new study nonprofit advocacy group Families... Read more...
Observers puzzled over Obama's failure to appoint CMS head
Though President Obama has repeatedly said that Medicare and Medicaid costs are the "biggest threat" to the nation's financial future, to the surprise of everyone in politics, he still hasn't named a... Read more...
