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Why the Jump in Health Insurance Premiums?
Oct. 14, 2011 -- What's behind the 2011 surge in the cost of job-based health insurance? Over the past decade, workers' share of family health insurance premiums has gone from under $1,800 to over $4,100 a year, up 131% since 2001. Employers now contribute an average $15,000, up 113%. That increase
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National Health Spending Slated to Increase by 2020
July 28, 2011 -- The health reform law -- the Affordable Care Act -- is slated to change how our health care dollar is spent and how far it can stretch during the ensuing decade. Health care spending will increase substantially in 2014, when the Affordable Care Act expands access to insurance via fe
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Medicare's Drug Plan Has Cut Health Care Costs
July 26, 2011 -- Non-drug-related health care costs have been reduced for elderly patients who gained better prescription drug coverage under Medicare Part D, according to a new study. Researchers found non-drug health care costs have decreased by nearly 4%, or an average of about $306 per quarter,
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Medicare Will Pay for Avastin and Provenge
July 1, 2011 -- Medicare will keep paying for the drug Avastin to fight breast cancer even though an FDA panel has recommended that the medication no longer be sold as a treatment for breast cancer. Medicare, in a separate issue, says it will cover costs of Provenge, an expensive treatment for advan
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Many Skip Medicare's Free Preventive Care
June 20, 2011 -- Only one in six Medicare beneficiaries have so far received any of the preventive care services now free to them due to health care reform. To save lives -- and money -- lost to preventable diseases, the Affordable Care Act offers all Medicare beneficiaries a wide range of preventiv
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Latest Round of Health Reform Benefits Kicks In
Sept. 22, 2010 -- Americans will receive an array of new protections against financial and coverage gaps in health insurance Thursday under health care reform. The changes include allowing children to remain on their parents’ health plans until age 26. The protections will apply to insurance plans
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Reform Law to Slightly Boost Health Spending by 2019
Sept. 10, 2010 -- President Obama’s controversial health care reform law will have only a modest effect on the nation’s overall medical bills by 2019, according to government estimates released Thursday. Overall spending on health care will make up 19.6% of the country’s total economic output by the
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Coverage Gap Gets Smaller for Medicare Patients
June 8, 2010 -- Senior citizens with high drug costs will soon get a bit of help from the government. Medicare beneficiaries who fall in the program's "doughnut hole" for prescription drug coverage are set to receive $250 checks from Washington as part of the new health reform law. President Barack
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Health Reform Faces Difficult Senate Tests
Nov. 9, 2009 -- The health overhaul bill that passed the House of Representatives late Saturday night contains lots of reforms to the medical system. But many of them are likely to change substantially before they are ever signed into law. The Senate is also working on a health bill, and, while it i
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Med Students Put Unprofessional Info Online
Sept. 22, 2009 -- It is not uncommon for medical students to post unprofessional and even illegal information on social networking sites like Facebook and media-sharing sites like YouTube, a survey of medical schools shows. In an anonymous poll of student affairs administrators from schools across t
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