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S.C. City’s Aging Population Offers A Glimpse Of The Future
Aiken, with nearly 22 percent of the residents aged 65 or older, is taking some innovative approaches to serving the community, but still finds the job daunting.
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Emergency Care, But Not At A Hospital
Originally conceived as a way to provide care in rural areas without hospitals, these freestanding ERs are cropping up in more developed areas.
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States Cutting Back On Drug Programs For HIV Patients
Budget shortfalls are forcing many states to tighten their AIDS drug assistance programs and bump low-income patients to waiting lists.
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Doctors In Small Practices Slow To Dump Paper Records
Despite carrots and sticks from the federal government, some physicians are leery about moving to electronic health records.
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Obesity Problems Fuel Rapid Surge Of Type 2 Diabetes Among Children
The disease was once considered "adult-onset" diabetes, but cases among U.S. children have ramped up from virtually zero to tens of thousands in little more than a decade.
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Obama Rejects Governors’ Plan to Overhaul Medicaid
The recession-fueled state budget crisis has turned Medicaid into the next battleground in the ongoing war over President Obama's signature health care reform law.
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Health Law Forces Changes To Reduce Hospitals Readmissions
20 percent of Medicare patients are back in the hospital within 30 days, a trend that endangers patients and raises health costs.
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Florida GOP Targets Individual Mandate In Health Law – Again
Florida Republican lawmakers are reviving a proposed constitutional amendment that takes aim at a major part of the federal health overhaul. The proposal, if ultimately approved by voters during the 2012 elections, is aimed at allowing Floridians to opt out of a federal requirement that they buy health insurance or face financial penalties.
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Scorecard: How Health Industry PACs Placed Their Election Bets
Health-sector PACs - ranging from doctors to hospitals to drug companies - generally favored incumbent Democrats, according to a KHN analysis. Two doctor groups backed more Republicans.
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Diabetes: Hospital Bills Cost U.S. $83 Billion A Year
A new report finds the diabetes epidemic is costing the country a bundle - nearly one in four hospital dollars is spent on the disease.
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2 New Provisions In Health Law Will Help Seniors
A look at the new health law's long-term-care program and the plan to close the Medicare drug doughnut hole.
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Kids and Dental Health: Rising Costs and Struggling State Programs a Dangerous Mix
Children are missing out on vital dental care-risking their health and racking up costs to parents and taxpayers alike. In the past decade, the number of cavities in children between the ages of two and five has increased 15 percent.
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Table and Map: Government-Backed Loans To Health Care Businesses
<< Go Back: “Experts Worry: Could Government Loans To Doctors Raise Health Costs?” Here is a state-by-state breakdown of Small Business Administration-backed loans under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, the stimulus program, to health care-related businesses from February 2009 to April 2010. Source: Small Business Administration
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Latest Destination For Medical Tourism: The U.S.
Forget sending workers overseas for lower cost medical care: A growing number of employers are encouraging workers to travel within the states to medical facilities they say have better quality and lower costs.
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Despite Federal Help, States Struggle To Move People Out Of Nursing Homes
A program, known as "Money Follows the Person," aims to help elderly and disabled people in nursing homes live on their own and save tens of millions of dollars for Medicaid. But many states are having trouble finding affordable housing, and fewer than 6,000 people have moved. The goal is 37,000 by 2013.
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Analysis: Health Care Polls Don’t Tell Whole Story
Polls show opposition and unease about the Democrats' health overhaul bills, but these snapshots of public opinion aren't necessarily good indicators of how voters will feel later about the legislation and the politicians who are trying to push it through Congress.
By Bruce Drake