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| 4Quotes Life Insurance and Annuities |
| Free Insurance Quotes including On-Line Term Life Insurance, Life, Disability, Long Term Care, Annuity and Insurance Quotes and Comparisons! |
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| 5 Medical Conditions That Raise Life Insurance Rates Most |
| You might be surprised to discover that cancer doesn't rank number one. |
| View Source | May 6, 2010 | Provides Information |
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| A Free Online Insurance Quote Advisor |
| Maximize your savings with our free, instant insurance quotes from top-rated carriers. Term life insurance, health, auto, home, long term care, dental and disability. No obligation. Free Newsletter, FAQs, tips and financial rating information. |
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| AccuCare Insurance Quotes |
| Offers long term care quotes from competitive insurance providers. |
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| ACTS Retirement-Life Communities announces affiliation with PUMH, Heron Point |
| ACTS' family of CCRCs expands into Delaware and Maryland |
| View Source | May 3, 2010 | Provides Information |
| Administration Threatens to Veto Health Spending Bill After Price Tag Jumps |
| The Obama administration threatened to veto parts of its own health care bill after budget scorekeepers found that the package would add at least $115 billion more to government health care spending. |
| View Source | May 12, 2010 | Provides Information |
| Affordable Long Term Care Information |
| Sites offers information on long term care insurance, as well as a quote request form. |
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| Allhealth Insurance Services |
| Online health insurance portal for individuals and small groups. We also offer dental, life and travel insurance for all 50 U.S. states |
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| Ambitious timetable for electronic medical records |
| The Obama administration on Tuesday rolled out an ambitious five-year plan for moving doctors and hospitals to computerized medical records, promising greater safety for patients and lower costs. |
| View Source | July 13, 2010 | Provides Information |
| America's Most Profitable Hospitals |
| Some hospitals make colossal profits. Are they running a tight ship--or using monopoly power to overcharge patients? It's not a discussion hospitals want to have. |
| View Source | August 31, 2010 | Provides Information |
| American Health Value |
| One of the first providers of MSAs, now offering investment options and a PPO medical provider network. Useful information and links for all MSA shoppers. |
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| Appeals Court Backs Eli Lilly Injunction Blocking Generic Evista |
| A federal appeals court on Wednesday affirmed an injunction blocking generic versions of Eli Lilly & Co.'s osteoporosis drug Evista. |
| View Source | September 1, 2010 | Provides Information |
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| Big stimulus bucks finally going to health IT |
| With the rules for health IT funding finally taking shape, the Department of Health and Human Services has moved into the second phase of its operation, handing out the dough. |
| View Source | April 9, 2010 | Provides Information |
| Benefit House |
| Get health insurance, life insurance, travel insurance quotes. |
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| Benefit Select, Inc. |
| Offers long-term care, vision, dental, and chiropractic insurance. |
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| Besthealthplans.com |
| Specializing in small group employee benefit plans. |
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| Blue Cross Tonik Health Insurance |
| Blue Cross Tonik. 3 simple health care plans for ages 0-64. Easy online applications. |
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| Blue Shield of California |
| MSA-qualified Preferred Savings Plan, available through any Blue Shield of California agent. Offered in CA only. |
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| California health insurance quotes. |
| Instant pricing. Online quotes. |
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| Central Plains Insurance Marketing, LLC |
| Discusses long term care insurance information and provides quotes. |
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| CNA Financial Corporation |
| Offers life, property and casualty, health and long-term care insurance. Includes products and services info and a company overview. |
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| Compare Insurance Plan |
| Compare the insurance policies yourself. |
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| Democrats launch push to promote Obama health law |
| Democrats launched a new push on Thursday to promote U.S. President Barack Obama's healthcare overhaul, as the first $250 rebates were mailed to seniors to help plug gaps in Medicare prescription drug coverage. |
| View Source | June 10, 2010 | Provides Information |
| Dental America.com |
| Dental discount plan with no pre-determinations. |
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| ECRI Institute revamps medical devices rating system |
| Big changes have been implemented in the way medical devices are being rated by ECRI Institute®, an independent, nonprofit organization that researches the best approaches to patient care. The organization, which has been guiding hospitals and other healthcare organizations on medical devices and procedures since 1971, has revamped its rating system to follow a five-star approach. |
| View Source | March 31, 2010 | Provides Information |
| eHealthInsurance.com |
| Quotes for major medical health insurance. Includes a glossary and FAQ. |
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| Emdeon introduces Office EZBill solution |
| Emdeon Inc., a leading provider of healthcare revenue and payment cycle management solutions, today announced the launch of a free service available through its Emdeon Office solution. Healthcare providers will now have the ability to submit workers' compensation and automobile medical bills and related attachments electronically through the Emdeon Office EZBill solution regardless of which practice management software they are currently using. |
| View Source | May 25, 2010 | Provides Information |
| Employment and Insurance: No Guarantee for Better Health |
| Having health insurance does not mean workers will take advantage of immunizations, cancer screenings and other preventive health services, a new study finds. |
| View Source | April 30, 2010 | Provides Information |
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| Feinstein bill would close 'enormous hole' in health reform but must be amended to cut industry influence: Consumer Watchdog |
| A health reform fix-it bill by Senator Dianne Feinstein that was debated in a Senate committee this morning aims at closing what Feinstein called an"enormous loophole" in the new federal law, allowing insurers to jack up rates on insurance policies that Americans will soon be required to buy. However, as written the bill would give too much power to the insurance industry over defining"unreasonable" rates that could be blocked, said Consumer Watchdog. |
| View Source | April 21, 2010 | Provides Information |
| Find Health Insurance |
| Instant health insurance quotes in 26 states including glossary and links. |
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| FlexMSA |
| Offers an MSA with MasterCard, checkbook, and investment option, and helps set you up with a qualified insurance plan in your state. IRS FAQ and other information. |
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| Fresenius Medical Care Sees Annual Revenue Growth At 6% To 8% |
| Fresenius Medical Care AG & Co. KGaA Thursday provided an outlook until the year 2013, saying it expects revenue to rise 6% to 8% annually. |
| View Source | September 2, 2010 | Provides Information |
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| Germany cuts health care spending, raises premiums |
| Faced with a ballooning deficit in Germany's health care system, Chancellor Angela Merkel's government decided Tuesday to raise premiums and cut into the profits of doctors, dentists, hospitals and pharmaceutical manufacturers. |
| View Source | July 6, 2010 | Provides Information |
| Great Insurance Deal |
| Deal with the best insurance policies. |
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| Google plans to pay gay employees more |
| Internet giant to cover cost related to domestic partner health benefits |
| View Source | July 1, 2010 | Provides Information |
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| Health Insurance Savings |
| It is a review site that gives information on Health insurance Savings which is basically a medical risk prevention or protection activated through a contract between the service provider and the user for a predetermined premium. |
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| Health law to bring longer ER waits, crowding? |
| U.S. already facing shortage of family physicians, experts say |
| View Source | July 2, 2010 | Provides Information |
| Health Symphony |
| Offering health insurance quotes, news, information and assistance. |
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| HealthAxis.com |
| Electronic provider of health insurance for individuals. |
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| HealthPlansOnline.com |
| Quotes for individual and group health, long term care, disability, life insurance, and Medicare supplement. |
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| HHC Group |
| Serving a broad range of health insurers. |
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| Hospitals and researchers test programs to stop readmissions |
| The Boston Globe reports on hospital readmissions: "In Massachusetts, more than 10 percent of patients are back in the hospital for the same or unrelated complaints within a month, according to the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, a Cambridge-based nonprofit think tank. Over two years, more than a quarter of all patients end up paying a repeat visit to the hospital, a new 12-state study by the US Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality found. |
| View Source | June 21, 2010 | Provides Information |
| How the health IT stimulus could hit device market |
| The process of handing out HITECH stimulus could hit the medical device market. |
| View Source | April 23, 2010 | Provides Information |
| HP Assists Healthcare Providers with Electronic Health Record Migration and Management |
| HP today introduced a new program to support and accelerate the adoption of electronic health records (EHR) among hospitals and physicians. |
| View Source | July 13, 2010 | Provides Information |
| HSADecisions.org |
| Health Savings Account Official Web Portal. |
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| In Canada, money may matter for cancer survival |
| Despite Canada's universal healthcare system, poorer Canadians with cancer are more likely to die early than their wealthier peers, suggests a new study of almost 100,000 patients from Ontario. |
| View Source | August 2, 2010 | Provides Information |
| Inactivity 'no contributor' to childhood obesity epidemic |
| A new report from the EarlyBird Diabetes Study suggests that physical activity has little if any role to play in the obesity epidemic among children. Obesity is the key factor behind diabetes, heart disease and some cancers. |
| View Source | July 7, 2010 | Provides Information |
| Inhalant Abuse Down but Still Snaring Young Kids |
| Children as Young as 6 Inhale Household Products to Get High |
| View Source | April 19, 2010 | Provides Information |
| Insurance In Missouri |
| Instant quotes on Missouri health, life, auto and home insurance. |
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| InsuranceQuest |
| MSA-qualified plans for Oregonians and nationwide. |
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| insure.com |
| factual and unbiased consumer information about auto, business, health, home and life insurance, including many interactive tools. |
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| IT industry getting stimulus from health reform |
| The combined demands of health reform amount to a mandate for insurance technology modernization. |
| View Source | May 3, 2010 | Provides Information |
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| Landec announces acquisition of Lifecore Biomedical from Warburg Pincus Private Equity |
| Landec Corporation, a materials science company that develops and markets patented polymer products for food, agriculture, personal care and drug delivery applications, today announced that it has acquired Lifecore Biomedical, Inc. from Warburg Pincus Private Equity IX, LP ("Warburg Pincus"). When acquired by Warburg Pincus in March 2008, Lifecore was comprised of two divisions, the Dental Division and the Hyaluronan Division. |
| View Source | May 3, 2010 | Provides Information |
| LTCi Pros |
| Offers long term care insurance services and information. |
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| LTCinsurance.com Holdings, LLC |
| Offers information on long term care, tax implecations, and the ability to request a quote. |
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| Long Term Care America |
| Offering free long term care insurance quotes, health screening, needs evaluation, and publications. |
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| Long term care insurance rates |
| Instant long term care insurance quotes from all of the leading carriers. We will give you side by side comparisions. |
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| Long Term Preferred Care Inc. |
| Nationwide agency specializing in long term care, home health care and assisted living insurance plans. |
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| Medical Alert Bracelets in the Modern Age |
| The Wall Street Journal has a very good article covering the well-known "medical alert bracelet," and its many modern spin-offs. When a patient comes into the emergency room they don't always have the mental faculty to answer important questions about their medical conditions, and their family members are often not immediately available. |
| View Source | September 1, 2010 | Provides Information |
| Magellan Health Services |
| Specialty managed care organization. |
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| Many Americans overtreated to death |
| Patients spending more on last-ditch treatments in final days |
| View Source | June 28, 2010 | Provides Information |
| Many public hospitals face increasingly pressures; Nonprofit hospitals face uncertain futures |
| The Wall Street Journal: "Faced with mounting debt and looming costs from the new federal health-care law, many local governments are leaving the hospital business, shedding public facilities that can be the caregiver of last resort. |
| View Source | August 30, 2010 | Provides Information |
| Massachusetts health care reform reviewed as a model for national plan |
| On Tuesday, President Obama signed into law U.S. health care reform legislation, leaving many Americans wondering how it will affect them, their families, and businesses. |
| View Source | March 24, 2010 | Provides Information |
| Medical Insurance Coding Consulting |
| holds national seminars and consulting on medical insurance reimbursement including Medicare ICD9 CPT coding. Most seminars relate to a specific speciality |
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| Medical Savings Advantage |
| Offers MSAs from Mellon Bank with investment options from Dreyfus. MasterCard and checkbook for easy access to funds. |
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| Medicare cuts increase cancer treatments, study finds |
| In healthcare, less money doesn't always mean less service. |
| View Source | June 17, 2010 | Provides Information |
| MedSave.com |
| Offering short term medical insurance. |
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| Mr. Long-Term Care |
| Information regarding long term care. Links include common diseases, special reports, and an agent database. |
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| NC Personal Injury - Medical Malpractice Attorney Greg Jones |
| Trial lawyers in Wilmington NC, representing plaintiffs in personal injury, pharmaceutical claims, medical malpractice, nursing home negligence, wrongful death, chemical exposure, lead poisoning and other related litigation. |
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| Need To Get Insurance? |
| Free quotes for health insurance and life insurance. California residents - compare dozens of plans and apply online. |
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| New health plans for uninsured off to slow start |
| Some can't afford it, some ineligible — and some may not have heard of it |
| View Source | August 23, 2010 | Provides Information |
| New law offers hope for homeless health care |
| Kaiser Health News staff writers Mary Agnes Carey and Andrew Villegas, writing in collaboration with The Washington Post, report: "Tianne Hill dreads getting mail at the city shelter on Guilford Avenue where she lives. |
| View Source | August 20, 2010 | Provides Information |
| New York Life Insurance Company |
| Comprehensive info on life insurance and health-care needs. Includes a life insurance education center and a products and services guide. |
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| Obama: Be patient with health care |
| President promotes tax credit for small businesses |
| View Source | April 1, 2010 | Provides Information |
| OIC Long Term Care |
| Includes FAQ and online quote requests. |
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| Online Long Term Care Insurance |
| Online long term care insurance quotes and rates from multiple insurance companies. We specialize in LTC insurance only and will quote up to 11 leading carriers. |
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| Oregon health insurance |
| Shop for health insurance in Oregon, Texas and Arizona. Free instant quotes online. |
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| Oregon Health Insurance - Loewenthal Agency |
| provides links to state programs for the elderly and low income, consumer information, general health insurance information and FAQs, and pages about specific health insurance plans. |
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| P2P networks a treasure trove of leaked health care data, study finds |
| Eight months after passage of HITECH Act, data leaks still a problem in health care industry |
| View Source | May 17, 2010 | Provides Information |
| Pfizer Agrees To Acquire Drug Developer FoldRx |
| Pfizer Inc. agreed to acquire privately held FoldRx Pharmaceuticals, whose leading drug candidate is a therapy for a genetic neurodegenerative disease for which the only current therapy is liver transplant. |
| View Source | September 1, 2010 | Provides Information |
| Pharmacy Benefit Discounts Continue, But At Slower Pace |
| The U.S.'s big pharmacy benefit managers continue to offer clients better deals this year as they compete for business, but they don't appear to be sliding into a frenzy of unreasonable pricing. |
| View Source | August 11, 2010 | Provides Information |
| Piecemeal COBRA Health Insurance Subsidy Extensions Puzzle Laid-Off Workers |
| Every day, dozens of confused, laid-off workers call the privately-run COBRA Help Center in Long Island, N.Y., which administers COBRA group health insurance plans. They’re struggling to understand whether they’re eligible for federal subsidies. It’s not surprising, says George Fox, a field underwriter for the company Planning Financial Futures Inc., that runs the center on behalf of employers and consumer |
| View Source | March 15, 2010 | Provides Information |
| Principal Financial Group, The |
| This family of companies offers health, disability and life insurance, as well as financial services. Includes a products overview, FAQs and access to customer service centers. |
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| Quickhealthinsurance.com |
| Search for low cost health and medical insurance. Free, Fast and Easy. |
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| QQLink.com |
| Offers health insurance quotes and information in all states. |
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| Sharp Using Palm Scanning To ID Patients |
| San Diego-based Sharp HealthCare has begun using palm scanning technology to identify patients as they check in for appointments or are admitted to the hospital, it was announced Wednesday. |
| View Source | June 16, 2010 | Provides Information |
| Some GOP states mounting legal challenges to health bill |
| The New York Times: "Officials in a dozen states who oppose the health care bill say they hope to block it in court by arguing that requiring people to buy health insurance is an unprecedented intrusion by the federal government into people's lives — the equivalent of going a step beyond simply regulating automobiles to requiring people to buy a car. |
| View Source | March 23, 2010 | Provides Information |
| States begin legal challenge to new health law but experts raise doubts about their chances |
| The Boston Globe: "Attorneys general from 13 states sued the federal government yesterday, arguing the landmark health care overhaul is unconstitutional just seven minutes after President Obama signed it into law. The lawsuit was filed in Pensacola after the Democratic president signed the 10-year, $938 billion bill the House passed Sunday night. ... Legal specialists say it has little chance of succeeding because, under the Constitution, federal laws trump state laws. ... The lawsuit contends that the bill violates the 10th Amendment ... by forcing the states to carry out its provisions but not reimbursing them for the costs. |
| View Source | March 25, 2010 | Provides Information |
| States, hospital systems puzzling over possible effects of health reform |
| The Los Angeles Times: "Over the next decade, many of [the new health law's] consequences will play out at places like St. Joe's, a 431-bed nonprofit hospital founded by the Sisters of Providence in 1943, and in surrounding community clinics." |
| View Source | April 5, 2010 | Provides Information |
| SXC Health Solutions declares nominal dividend on common shares |
| SXC Health Solutions Corp., a leading provider of pharmacy benefits management (PBM) services and Health Care Information Technology (HCIT) solutions to the healthcare benefits management industry, announced today that its board of directors has declared a nominal dividend on the issued and outstanding common shares of the Company to effect a two-for-one stock split. Shareholders of record at the close of business on September 14, 2010, will be issued one additional common share for each share owned as of that date. The additional common shares will be distributed on September 17, 2010. |
| View Source | September 2, 2010 | Provides Information |
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| Taxpayer Calculator: How Much Will the Transition to Digital Medical Records Cost You? |
| Going to the doctor is going paperless, as new Obama administration rules require hospitals and physicians to convert millions of paper patient files to digital records. Medical providers will have to electronically record certain information like a patient's weight, blood pressure, prescriptions and allergies by 2011. Every year after that will require more information or "measures" to be put into computers. |
| View Source | September 2, 2010 | Provides Information |
| The Free Online Insurance Quote Advisor |
| Insurance quotes - Life, Auto, Home, Health, Renter's, Long term care, Disability, Dental. Provides FAQ's, Money-saving tips, Buyer's checklist and Financial rating information. |
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| Think Long Term Care Insurance |
| Provides a national listing of long term care insurance specialists. Site includes many links related to long term care and allows you to ask for advice online. |
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| Uncertainty over Medicare pay sets doctors on edge |
| For the third time this year, Congress is scrambling to stave off a hefty pay cut to doctors treating Medicare patients - even as the Obama administration mails out a glossy brochure to reassure seniors the health care program is on solid ground. |
| View Source | May 27, 2010 | Provides Information |
| Uninsured Americans have 50 percent higher odds of dying in hospital from heart attack or stroke |
| An analysis of over 150,000 hospital discharges has revealed that there are significant insurance related differences in hospital mortality, length of stay, and costs among working-age Americans (age 18-64 years) hospitalized for acute myocardial infarction (AMI), stroke, or pneumonia. These three conditions are among the leading causes of non-cancer in-patient deaths in patients under 65 years old. The analysis is published today in the Journal of Hospital Medicine. |
| View Source | June 10, 2010 | Provides Information |
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| Wakely Consulting Group |
| independent actuaries specializing in services for health insurers, HMOs, health care providers, and self insured employers. |
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| White House urged to promote health care innovation; Feds prepare $25 million in malpractice grants |
| The Hill: A medical device trade group and former lawmaker separately called on the White House to do more to promote life-saving medical innovation this week. "In separate events Wednesday and Thursday, former House Majority Leader Dick Gephardt (D-Mo.) and Stephen Ubl, the head of the medical device trade group AdvaMed, called on the Obama administration to task a federal office with promoting U.S. innovation." They argued that "innovation faces mounting challenges, such as international competition, poor science education and dwindling venture capital investment, because of growing uncertainties with regulations and payment rates in public programs such as Medicare. |
| View Source | June 11, 2010 | Provides Information |
| World-Wise Health Insurance Solutions |
| Health, dental, and prescription plans for individuals, associations, and groups. |
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| Wrong patient phone numbers trip up ER docs |
| Fake or inaccurate contacts raise risk when sick patients can't be found |
| View Source | April 25, 2010 | Provides Information |
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| Va. health care reform lawsuit clears 1st hurdle |
| Virginia's lawsuit challenging the Obama administration's health care reform law cleared its first legal hurdle Monday as a federal judge ruled the law raises a host of complex constitutional issues. |
| View Source | August 2, 2010 | Provides Information |