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Healthcare Spending Slowed in 2009
Americans’ healthcare spending grew by just four percent in 2009 (the last year for which statistics are available), the smallest annual increase in 50 years. This suggests that Americans did not seek...
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Healthcare Costs Have Doubled in Just Nine Years
"Where does it hurt?" American families have seen their healthcare costs rise by more than 50 percent over the last nine years, a trend that shows no sign of reversing, according to a report from the...
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Medicare Changes Would Hit Lower-Income Seniors Hard
At a time when concern about federal deficits and the national debt are growing, few quarrel with the need to reform Medicare. The health insurance program for seniors and people with certain...
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With Medicaid due to cover millions of uninsured Americans in just three years, state funding cuts may undermine how much care the government-run healthcare insurance program for the poor will offer...
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Healthcare Costs Starting to Slow Down
The increase annually in healthcare costs appears to be slowing. According to Sandra Block of Gannett News Service, “If there’s any good news to be found, it’s that the increase in overall costs of...
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90-Year-Olds Growing in Numbers
Is 90 the new 85? The number of Americans over the age of 90 has skyrocketed from 720,000 in the year 1980 to more than 1.9 million in 2010, according to the Census Bureau, which notes that “over the...
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The Individual Mandate Passes: ObamaCare Survives Supreme Court
In one of the most significant rulings in recent memory (perhaps since the awarding of the Presidency to George W. Bush in 2000), the Supreme Court upheld President Obama‘s health care law in a...
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Dying for Coverage
More than 26,000 working-age adults die prematurely in the United States every year because they lack health insurance, according to a study published by Families USA. The consumer advocacy group...
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ACOs Double in Size
While the fate of Obama Care hung in the balance, the ACO became the voluntary dance that nobody wanted to show up to too early. Defined by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) as “an...
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Healthcare’s Early Hope?
We have a couple of promising trends emerging from the recent reports. Consumers saved $3.9 billion in premiums last year, according to an analysis released today from the CMS. Why? Because Obamacare...
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