Report: Rebates from health care law will top $1B
(AP) -- More than 3 million health insurance policyholders and thousands of employers will share $1.3 billion in rebates this year, thanks to President Barack Obama's health care law, a nonpartisan research ...
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Apr 26, 2012 |
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Disclosure of financial conflicts of interest may worsen medical bias
"Journals, professional associations, clinical guideline developers, and others need to worry not just that disclosure provides a band-aid to the real problem of the [conflict of interest] itself, but that any attempt to ...
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Apr 24, 2012 |
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One-quarter of working-age adults had a gap in health-care coverage in 2011
One of four (26%) working-age U.S. adults experienced a gap in health insurance coverage during 2011, often because they lost or changed jobs, according to a new Commonwealth Fund report that also shows how difficult it is ...
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Apr 19, 2012 |
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Affordable Care Act protections would have provided nearly $2 billion in consumer rebates
Consumers nationwide would have received an estimated $2 billion in rebates from health insurers if the new medical loss ratio (MLR) rules enacted as part of the Affordable Care Act had been in effect in 2010, according to ...
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Apr 05, 2012 |
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Combative Obama warns Supreme Court on health law
US President Barack Obama on Monday challenged the "unelected" Supreme Court not to take the "extraordinary" and "unprecedented" step of overturning his landmark health reform law.
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Apr 02, 2012 |
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Better short-Term outcomes for private prostatectomies
(HealthDay) -- For men undergoing radical prostatectomies (RPs), private health insurance coverage is linked with fewer complications, less in-hospital recovery time, and decreased mortality, compared to public ...
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Mar 30, 2012 |
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Top US court gets to heart of health reform debate
The US Supreme Court Tuesday took up the most contentious part of President Barack Obama's landmark health care reform, hearing arguments on whether it is constitutional to require Americans to buy insurance coverage.
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Mar 27, 2012 |
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Supreme Court takes up heart of Obama health law
The Supreme Court dives into the heart of President Barack Obama's signature health care reform law Tuesday, taking up its most divisive requirement -- that Americans maintain insurance or be fined.
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Mar 27, 2012 |
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Change in health insurance status linked to greater emergency department use
Recent changes in health insurance status were linked to greater emergency department use by newly insured and newly uninsured adults, according to a study published Online First by Archives of Internal Medicine. The articl ...
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Mar 26, 2012 |
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Rejecting 'Obamacare' would be 'grave and profound'
Neal Katyal, who as acting US Solicitor General defended the constitutionality of President Barack Obama's flagship health reform in lower courts, has warned in an interview with AFP of "grave" and "profound" consequences ...
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Mar 25, 2012 |
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Obama's health care law
The US law that extends health insurance coverage to most Americans, dubbed "Obamacare" by its detractors, is 2,400 pages long but only certain points have been challenged before the US Supreme Court.
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Mar 23, 2012 |
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Two mothers, two points of view on Obama health reforms
They're both 37 years old, both married, and both mothers of a seriously ill child.
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Mar 23, 2012 |
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Obama health reform faces Supreme Court test
US President Barack Obama's landmark health reform faces a make-or-break test in the Supreme Court next week in a historic case likely to shape the nation's future political landscape.
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Mar 23, 2012 |
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Financial hardship common among colon cancer patients
(HealthDay) -- Nearly 40 percent of patients undergoing adjuvant chemotherapy for stage III colon cancer experience financial hardship, even if they have health insurance coverage, according to research published ...
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Mar 13, 2012 |
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Assessing the impact of the Affordable Care Act on health care for veterans
While the Affordable Care Act will expand health insurance coverage for low-income persons through Medicaid and state health-insurance exchanges, including much-needed care for 1.8 million uninsured veterans in the U.S., ...
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Feb 23, 2012 |
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