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Employers Are Cool to Candidates' Health Care Plans
When it comes to new health insurance proposals, most firms are bipartisan -- they don't like the contenders' ideas very much.
Seeds of 1993 Health Care Plan Planted by Clinton
At the Democratic debate in Austin last week, Senator Hillary Clinton declared her experience in the 1990s in developing and promoting health care reform would serve her well if elected president. She claimed it would help her stand up ...
Health care costs on pace to double by 2017
WASHINGTON - By 2017, total health care spending will double to more than $4 trillion a year, accounting for $1 of every $5 the nation spends, the federal government projects.The 6.7 percent annual increase in spending - nearly three ...
What Canada Tells us About Government Health Care
In a recent study by the Pew Research Center, 76 percent of registered voters said that health care was very important to their vote. Democrats ranked health care their most important issue; Independents slotted it as their second most ...
VHA Inc. Becomes Strategic Partner in Center for Innovation in ...
VHA Inc., the national health care alliance that serves more than 1400 hospitals nationwide, has become a strategic partner in the University of Arkansas Center for Innovation in Healthcare Logistics. As a strategic partner, ...
Health Care Disparities
An important recognized weakness of health care delivery in the US is that of disparities. There are close to 50 million people without health insurance, and those who have public insurance such as Medicaid have limited access to ...
Health Care: Things to Consider
Democrats are going to try and shift the debate to health insurance, but health insurance is not health care. What is really at stake are the jobs of millions of health care professionals and the hundreds of millions who pay them their ...
Chelsea Clinton Has a Health Care Problem
On the stump for her mother, she neglects to mention her six-figure salary but regularly complains about her health-insurance plan. “I’m hoping that it will filter back to my employer,” she jokes.
Health Care Spending to Rise Over Next Decade
A new federal study points to accelerating growth in government spending on Medicare over the next ten years. This will happen as baby boomers become eligible for the health care entitlement program.
Health Beat: Will Consumer-Driven Medicine Really Cut Health Care ...
The price tag of health care for the uninsured is over $40 billion. Maintaining a market-driven system will only drive that bill higher. Health Beat: Will Consumer-Driven Medicine Really Cut Health Care Costs? ...