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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. companies are cutting healthcare costs further amid a continuing sour economy, scaling back benefits and shifting a greater share of the expense to employees. The findings, published on Thursday, come as the U.S. congressional campaign heats up over the nation's stagnant economic growth and whether recently passed healthcare reforms should be repealed. Such steps ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama, frustrated by Republican obstruction of key administration staffing appointments, will use his power to appoint his pick to run Medicare and Medicaid while the U.S. Congress is in recess, the White House said on Tuesday. Obama will make the appointment on Wednesday of Dr. Donald Berwick, a healthcare expert he nominated in April to ...
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Medicare program will pay for the use of facial filling treatments in certain HIV patients with sunken cheeks and other similar problems who are also depressed, the government said on Tuesday. The move impacts dermal fillers such as BioForm Medical's Radiesse and Sanofi-Aventis SA's Sculptra. Merz GmbH & Co acquired BioForm last month ...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Republican attorneys general in at least 12 states warned on Monday that lawsuits will be filed to stop the federal government's healthcare reform bill from encroaching on states' sovereignty. The lawsuits were widely expected with announcements coming from the states' top legal officials less than 24 hours after the House of Representatives gave final approval to a ...
WASHINGTON/CHICAGO (Reuters) - As the Congress once again rallies to pass healthcare reform legislation, momentum is growing in many states to pass laws to block the changes -- a move that could lead to a legal battle over states' sovereignty. Bills and resolutions have been introduced in at least 36 state legislatures seeking to limit or oppose various aspects of the ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus on Thursday said Republicans and Democrats are not that far apart when it comes to ways to control soaring U.S. healthcare costs. Speaking at the White House healthcare summit, Baucus said lawmakers were "on the verge of bridging a lot of gaps." Baucus, who failed at an attempt to write a ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Cuts in reimbursement to hospitals made by Taiwan's universal healthcare system in recent years may have slowed a decade-long decline in stroke deaths, hints a new study. What the findings could mean for the U.S. and other countries wrestling with the question of how to control healthcare costs is unclear. But Taiwan's experience ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Strengthening the U.S. economy and improving the job situation are the top domestic political priorities of Americans, according to a poll released on Monday. The poll by the non-partisan Pew Research Center for the People & the Press indicated that defending the country from terrorism ranked third, followed by fixing the Social Security retirement program. It ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - More than a dozen U.S. state attorneys general visited Washington on Wednesday threatening to sue the U.S. government if the so-called "Cornhusker Kickback," a special subsidy offered to Nebraska, is included in pen1ding healthcare reform legislation. The subsidy, which was included in the Senate version of the bill, is "capricious and arbitrary treatment of Nebraska," said ...
