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Is A Competitive Health Care Model All It’s Cracked Up To Be?
The track records of two programs often cited by Republican candidates suggest a more complicated picture.
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Workers’ Poor Health Costs Employers $344 Billion, Study Finds
The institute used its own data, along with data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, to come up with the estimate. Of that total, $227 billion are costs associated with workers taking days off because they are sick or showing up at work and underperforming.
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Health Premiums Rise A Relatively Modest 4 Percent, Study Finds
Analysts attribute slowed growth to people using less health care as a result of higher deductibles, continuing weak economy.
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Young People Pay Less For Health Coverage, Older People Pay More, Under Maine’s ‘Market-Based’ Approach
State experiment gets scrutiny amid national debate over role of insurance regulation in rising coverage costs.
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How One Panel Weighed The Evidence On Magnetic Pulse Treatment For Depression
After assessing costs and benefits, a New England advisory group concludes it's at least as beneficial as more traditional approaches.
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Is Magnetic Pulse Treatment An Answer For People Suffering From Drug-Resistant Depression?
Supporters say the $10,000 treatment is worth the cost, but others raise questions about its long-term effectiveness.
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Health Law Deadlines Under Pressure
The Supreme Court ruling shifts the focus to states. But between 20 and 40 may be unable to set up new online insurance markets by fall 2013.
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Justices Uphold Individual Mandate, Set Limits On Medicaid Expansion
The ruling on Medicaid creates a new arena for political battles in the 26 states that sued to overturn the law. Within hours of the decision, Republican officials in several states said they were likely to oppose expanding the program.
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Health Law Is Mixed Bag For Employers
Large businesses would escape penalties for failing to offer coverage, but small firms would no longer get tax credits to help offset insurance costs.
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New Consumer Protections Depend On High Court’s Ruling
Provisions to protect those with pre-existing illnesses and subject insurers to greater scrutiny are at risk if the law is struck.
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What’s At Stake For Women If SCOTUS Overturns The Health Law
A provision in the health law requiring free contraceptive coverage has gotten most of the press, but much more is at stake for women if the Supreme Court strikes down the law.
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3 Large Insurers Promise To Keep Many Popular Features Of Health Law If High Court Strikes It Down
UnitedHealthcare, Aetna and Humana said no matter how the Supreme Court rules on the health law, they would continue to allow young adults coverage on their parents' plans and offer no-copayment preventive services.
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Higher Prices Charged By Hospitals, Other Providers, Drove Health Spending During Downturn
A new study finds prices rose at least five times faster than overall inflation for emergency room visits, outpatient surgery and facility-based mental health and substance abuse care from 2009 to 2010.
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