Milliman Study Finds Health Costs Really Are Increasing
The consulting firm Milliman Inc. found that health care costs for a family of four rose again in 2011.
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The consulting firm Milliman Inc. found that health care costs for a family of four rose again in 2011.
The age gap among regions in the U.S. has grown to its widest in decades. In some areas, the trend will increase pressure on already stretched budgets that provide services for the aging.
The Wall Street Journal reports that insurers are diversifying.
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News outlets look at issues surrounding Medicaid funding in several states.
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The Hill reports that - as it marked up the bill, which would impose new limits on lawsuits against doctors - the panel defeated Democratic efforts to preserve more lenient state laws.
But GOP plans for the 2012 federal budget set the stage for significant cuts in health discretionary spending - which are among the programs that make up the core of President Barack Obama's domestic agenda.
Just days before House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, is scheduled to give the university's commencement address, a group of its faculty members criticized elements of the GOP's 2012 budget plan.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including reports about the upcoming health policy speech by GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney.
Nongovernmental organizations on Wednesday called on the Ugandan parliament to reject a "proposed law that seeks to criminalize homosexuality ahead of an expected vote on a revised version of the legislation," Bloomberg reports (Ojambo, 5/10).
The first federal appeals court hearing related to the health overhaul offered a preview of how the Obama administration will likely approach the case before the Supreme Court, which is expected to be its final destination.
President Barack Obama will welcome Democratic congressional leaders to the White House this week to discuss the continuing budget debate. Though the bipartisan deficit-reduction efforts led by Vice President Joe Biden focus on less politically charged issues, Obama's calls for long-term adjustments - including changes to Medicare and Medicaid - have left some Democrats nervous.
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