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- POLITICAL INSIDER: Chafee says primary results in Del. shouldn’t surprise Castle
- New Medicare chief Donald Berwick says rationing not the way to reform health care
- Gov’t forecast: Moderate spending increase as 32 million gain coverage under health overhaul
- Catching up to private insurance, Medicare expands coverage for counseling to quit smoking
- HEALTHBEAT: Efforts under way to ease ER delays, and some post wait times by text, billboard
- Advocacy groups ask feds to probe privacy breach in release of immigrant list in Utah
- In DC, no such thing as too poor for medical pot; City is first to give discounts to the needy
- Democrats’ fall election strategy: Try to make case that GOP and tea party share same agenda
- Report: Md. could save $829M in 10 years of health care reform, then more costs shift to state
- Ark. surgeon general says state needs more doctors to handle influx from federal health law
- APNewsBreak: Indiana says it will no longer count food stamps when calculating other benefits
- Ind. officials urge parents to take advantage of Hoosier Healthwise enrollment with schools
- Ind. accused of cutting aid to some food stamp users; experts say practice breaks federal law
- Former Clinton aide Dick Morris raising money for Republican Sharron Angle’s Nevada Senate bid
- US judge in Boston rules federal gay marriage ban unconstitutional
- AP source: Obama to bypass Senate in recess to appoint doctor opposed by GOP to run Medicare
- Michigan residents stand to lose unemployment checks, job training opportunities this week
- Obama signs bill to temporarily spare doctors from 21 percent cut in Medicare payments
- With jobs agenda stymied, congressional Democrats settle for short term fix for Medicare
- Nev. Senate candidate lets GOP lawmakers do the talking for her after meeting at Capitol
- APNewsBreak: Vt. changes course, will not try to collect federal drug rebates from recipients
- Medicare to hold claims through Thursday, giving Congress time to head off 21 pct cut
- Federal study finds lax infection control at same-day surgery centers in 3 states
- Kan. doctor admits knowing patients overdosed but says he changed clinic to avoid more deaths
- Fla. gov candidate Rick Scott, former hospital exec, touts business acumen, outsider status
- New estimate shows federal health care overhaul will cost Indiana $2.9 billion in next decade
- New estimate shows federal health care overhaul will cost Indiana $2.9 billion in next decade
- Schwarz Pharma to pay $22M to settle allegations it allowed false Medicare claims to be filed
- Obama nominates Harvard professor to oversee Medicare, Medicaid
- President Obama orders hospitals to extend medical rights to same-sex couples
- Obama calls for greater hospital access to patients by non-family members
- Democrat front-runner wins Fla. US House race, first since health care overhaul passed
- GOP candidate hopes contest for open US House seat is referendum on Obama, health care
- Dentist accused of using paper clips in patients’ root canals faces arraignment in Mass.
- AP Source: Annual report on health of Social Security and Medicare to be delayed until June 30
- More than 1 in 4 elderly need end-of-life care decisions, showing value of living wills
- Source: Obama to name Berwick to run agency that oversees Medicaid, Medicare
- Deere & Co. says new health care reform law will increase fiscal 2010 expenses by about $150M
- Closure appears near for unusual collision of abortion, immigration politics in Nebraska
- Bigger hospitals do better job at treating heart problems, pneumonia, study suggests
- Unusual collision of abortion, immigration politics puts Nebraska lawmakers in uneasy spot
- White House to 13 state attorneys general suing over health care overhaul: Bring it on
- House Democratic leaders sign health care bill, send it to Obama for his signature
- Senate Leader Reid joins President Obama in appeal for Democratic unity ahead of pivotal vote
- Democrat says Medicare dispute resolved as House leaders solidify support for health bill
- Obama is on the brink of a health care reinvention that none before him could achieve
- AMA, AARP support revised health care overhaul bill; AMA calls it step toward real reform
- Obama cites Social Security, Medicare in final push for health care overhaul
- Democrats on track for health care vote Sunday, Ohio Dem switches to ‘yes’
- SPIN METER: Controversial procedure offers political shelter for vulnerable Democrats
- Health care politics served up Southern-style, causing heartburn for moderate Democrats
- Hospital: Ohioan who championed by Obama doesn’t have to choose between her home, her health
- Hospital: Ohioan who has become Obama’s calling card on health care won’t lose her home
- Mont. governor seeks federal permission to import cheaper drugs from Canada for state programs
- House Democratic leaders push toward final vote on health legislation in next 3 weeks
- Stupak threatens to withhold support from health care bill unless abortion language changed
- Rank-and-file Capitol Hill Democrats are wary of Obama’s final push on health overhaul
- Gov’t takes steps to highlight higher numbers of poor Americans with revised formula
- Stroke study finds neck stents as good as surgery for fixing narrowed arteries
- Biden says federal government’s health care spending wastes ‘a heck of a lot of money’
- Obama’s spokesman: President looking for productive health care talks, new ideas
- Planning final push to pass Obama’s bill, Democrats look beyond televised session with GOP
- Reid presses to extend jobless aid, Medicaid help for states
- Millions of seniors face 14 percent premium increase for popular Medicare Advantage plans
- Lame-duck Republican senator harbors hope of bipartisan deal on health care overhaul
- Biden says White House ready and willing to hear Republicans ideas on health care overhaul
- Indiana AG: CVS to pay nearly $2 million to settle complaint over pharmacists’ licenses
- Schwarzenegger, lawmakers renew push for federal money, say California has been shortchanged
- Generic drugmaker says it is settling lawsuits over drug pricing with US and 3 states
- Defiant Sen. Landrieu defends special Medicaid deal for La. in health care bill
- AP source: Obama to propose $25B more Medicaid help for states in Monday’s budget plan
- 3rd time a charm? Hybrid welfare intake with more workers, automation hits 10 SW Ind. counties
- Mass. GOP upset victory means more doubt for La. Medicaid money but Landrieu holds on to hope
- Sen. Nelson, responding to Schwarzenegger, calls for more Medicaid funding for all states
- Schwarzenegger criticizes vote buying in Democratic health care bill
- Under new bill, Nebraska businesses with workers on Medicaid could be publicly listed
- Sen. Nelson says he wants Medicaid deal for all states, won’t stand for special Nebraska deal
- Landmark health bill clears final 60-vote hurdle in Senate; final passage set Thursday
- Democrats jubilant as Senate moves toward Christmas Eve passage of health care bill
- Doctors’ association lends its support to latest Senate health care bill
- Grassley calls for federal probe after Fla. doc writes nearly 97K prescriptions in 18 months
- Senators believe drugmakers will contribute more money to close Medicare coverage gap
- Vt. Sen. Sanders withdraws Medicare-for-all amendment, but health care prognosis unclear
- Independent in every way, Lieberman keeps Democrats on edge over fate of health care overhaul
- Obama meets with Senate Democrats, says their health care bill satisfies his objectives.
- AP sources: Federal agents start arresting suspects in 3-state Medicare fraud crackdown
- Medicare expansion may fall out of Senate health bill
- Lieberman says Senate opposition is growing to proposal for early Medicare buy-in
- Gov’t analysis finds health spending would keep growing; casts doubt on Medicare savings
- Obama directs $600M toward community health centers, improving electronic medical records
- Plaintiffs against Florida agencies say state lamented delays, other problems with Medicaid
- Democrats defeat GOP attempt to restore $40 billion in cuts to home health care agencies
- Senate Roll Call: Republican effort to restore $120 billion in cuts to Medicare Advantage
- Medco and Coventry say they will research ways to reduce hospital trips for Medicare patients
- Idaho health providers ask federal court to widen span of lawsuit over Medicaid rate changes
