19th February 2010
Another day of healthcare reform, another cheeky acronym and another pot of federal funds.
Tomorrow, something called the HITECH Act takes effect. For those of you (like me) who find acronyms ironic because they only serve to make the English language...
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27th January 2010
Try as it might, General Motors sure can't catch a break.
After filing for bankruptcy last year, enduring massive layoffs and putting some of thier one-time flagship brands out to pasture, Congress has taken one of its rugged White Knights on wheels a...
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27th January 2010
So, we're a little more than halfway through January. Are you still following your New Year's resolutions as faithfully as you did the stroke of midnight three weeks ago?
If you're like most Americans, you are clinging quite comfortably to your past h...
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27th January 2010
In a move the company says is designed to "enhance" its delinquent patient account collections, Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare, a $9 billion operator of hospitals and outpatient clinics, recently announced it has begun pulling patient credit reports as sta...
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25th January 2010
Who knew?
The end of affordable health plans to the masses. In the end, this election will go down as yet another shot heard round the world. No doubt about it.
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15th January 2010
Even in a recession, we're pretty loyal to our favorite brands.
Economists who study these things watch the food we eat, the clothes we buy and the gas we put in our car. It's all part of a mission to find out what we are willing to scrimp on when cas...
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07th January 2010
Health department officials in Miami have a bitter pill to swallow after uncovering more than 40 licensed physicians who legally operate clinics that treat patients with chronic pain using narcotic-based prescriptions, while marketing non-narcotics for th...
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07th January 2010
Ford Motor Company hasn't always had the best relationship with the United Autoworkers Union (UAW). Back in 2007, the company's employee healthcare costs were eating up the carmaker's meager profits. After posting quarter after quarter of disappointing ea...
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07th January 2010
Physician groups, hospital corporations and any portion of their supply chains are going to get pretty thrifty this year; a trend healthcare experts say will leave an industry many believe is currently fraught with waste and wealthy executives with a more...
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16th December 2009
My grandfather used to say when I was faced with difficult a choice, "It's sometimes easier to ask forgiveness than it is to ask permission."
A deeply thoughtful, wiser-than-his-years Veteran of WWII who died peacefully before I turned fourteen, he wa...
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14th December 2009
With exception to the Swine Flu running rampant in space you inhabit, or maybe a weather forecast for a sunny Friday after a long work week, no one truly plans to be sick.
So when you develop a nasty cough or stubborn fever, you're left with a few cho...
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08th December 2009
It all started with credit cards.
Remembering your PIN number in the check-out line was that industry's Hail Mary Pass to cut losses from fraudulent purchases back in the mid-80s. Fingerprint and retinal scans were developed by the FBI about the same t...
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04th December 2009
No sooner did retailers wrap up Black Friday in cash register green with a big red bow on top did an equally colorful war of words erupt between the self-proclaimed "Voice of Retail" and America's largest retail chain over how best to deliver affordable h...
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