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Enrolling Healthy, Young Adults Crucial To Success Of New Health-Care Law
For the growing campaign to enroll the uninsured in health insurance as part of the monumental health-care overhaul, signing up healthy young adults - the "young invincibles" - is crucial to success.
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How The Other Washington May Hold The Key To The Medicare Cost Crisis
Washington state saves money by ending insurance coverage for medical procedures that are unsafe, unproven or cost too much. Why can't Medicare do the same?
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Obamacare Canvassers Seek Out Florida’s Uninsured
Enroll America volunteers use census data and telephone surveys to identify people without coverage but finding them can still be challenging.
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Maryland Regulators Slash Rates For Obamacare Insurance Policies
Consumer advocates praise rates that are more affordable, but others question whether they can be sustained.
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Health Law Boosts Status Of Alternative Medicine — At Least On Paper
The Affordable Care Act says that insurance companies "shall not discriminate" against any state-licensed health provider, which could lead to better coverage of chiropractic, homeopathic and naturopathic care. Alternative medicine is also mentioned in parts of the law on wellness, prevention and research.
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IOM Finds Differences In Regional Health Spending Are Linked To Post-Hospital Care And Provider Prices
Report recommends that Congress use Medicare's influence to push doctors and other providers to work more closely and share in financial risk for care that is too costly.
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Letters To The Editor: In Defense Of Shorter Shifts For Interns, Medicaid Managed Care Oversight, Emergency Room Frequent Flyers And Other Topics
Letters to the Editor is a periodic KHN feature. We welcome all comments and will publish a selection.
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Deciphering The Health Law’s Subsidies For Premiums
Tax attorney Cathy Livingston helps explain how consumers with lower incomes will be able to get financial assistance when buying a health insurance policy on the new online marketplaces.
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Florida Providers Jump On ACO Bandwagon
The health care model encouraged by the Affordable Care Act rewards physicians for coordinating patient care and controlling costs.
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Medicaid Coverage Limits Access To Medications For Painkiller Addicts
Patients face severe limitations on the amount and duration of medicines they take to fight addiction to pain pills.
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Patient Advocates Seek A Gentle Transition From High Risk Pools To New Exchange Plans
Many states had special programs to provide insurance to people with medical problems. Some of those programs will disappear after January when the federal health law offers guarantees of coverage.
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Obamacare Delay Is A Relief For A Family Business
The owner of Angelo's restaurant says he's happy to have a reprieve from the health law
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Doctors Interested in MBAs Are Increasingly Looking For Traditional Business Programs, Not Health-Care Specific Degrees
As the health care industry revamps, physicians are seeking new skills. At MIT's Sloan School of Management, health care professionals make up 20 percent of the class.