Clinical Trials Update: Jan. 31, 2011
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Doctors Continued To Spend Big On Lobbying In 2010; Senate GOP Ready To Question CMS Chief
Doctors Continued To Spend Big On Lobbying In 2010 Reporting for Kaiser Health News, Bara Vaida writes: “The health care battle didn’t end for doctors with the passage of the federal health law and their spending shows it” (Vaida, 1/27). Read the story or check out the related chart… View full post on Health Insurance [...]
Health Highlights: Jan. 31, 2011
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NARAL Pro-Choice America’s Keenan Explains Threat Of ‘Stupak On Steroids’
One day after the House passed a bill (HR 2) that would repeal the federal health reform law (PL 111-148), House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) “declared a far-reaching anti-choice bill (HR 3) to be one of his ‘highest legislative priorities’,” NARAL Pro-Choice America President Nancy Keenan writes in an opinion piece on The Hill’s “Congress [...]
Sex During Pregnancy Deemed Safe
MONDAY, Jan. 31 (HealthDay News) — Having sex while you're pregnant is generally safe, a new review finds. View full post on Yahoo! Health News
Ark. Senate Passes Bill To Prohibit Abortion Coverage In Insurance Exchanges; Va. House Approves Tighter Clinic Restrictions
The Arkansas Senate on Thursday voted 27-8 to approve (SB 113) that would prevent health insurers participating in the new health insurance exchanges from offering abortion coverage, the AP/Texarkana Gazette reports. If women purchasing health coverage through the exchanges wish to have coverage for abortion, they would need to purchase separate policies or riders with [...]
[$$] CNL Hotels Mulls Bankruptcy Protection
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British PM on defensive as NHS reform debated
British Prime Minister David Cameron defended the coalition government's proposed reforms of the NHS in England as lawmakers on Monday began their first debate on the bill. View full post on Yahoo! Health News
New HHS Report Touts Health Reform Law
Individuals and families who purchase insurance coverage through the state-based health insurance exchanges in 2014 will spend 14% to 20% less than they would have if the federal health reform law was not enacted, according to a report released by HHS on Friday, Politico reports… View full post on Health Insurance / Medical Insurance News [...]
Reinsurance Group of America profit soars in Q4
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- Insurance Coverage Might Steer Women To Costlier — But More Effective — Birth ControlIn the heated debate over to what extent religiously affiliated employers should be required to provide free contraception for workers, no one has talked much about what methods are available to women who want to prevent pregnancy and how their choices might change if cost were removed from the equation. ... […]
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