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BERLIN (Reuters) - The German parliament passed healthcare reform on Friday to overhaul the country's cash-strapped insurance system and plug a threatened 11-billion-euro shortfall in the public health system next year.Chancellor Angela Merkel's center-right coalition has called the healthcare reform bill one ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. healthcare reform law will worsen a shortage of physicians as millions of newly insured patients seek care, the Association of American Medical Colleges said on Thursday.The group's Center for Workforce Studies released new estimates that showed shortages ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama resubmitted his pick to run the Medicare and Medicaid programs to the Senate on Monday, two months after bypassing the body with a recess appointment.In July Obama appointed health expert Donald Berwick to run the programs ...
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 ...
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 ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - CVS Caremark Corp has been charging some customers of its SilverScript Medicare prescription-drug programs higher prices than they were promised when they signed up for the plans in late 2009, the Wall Street Journal reported.The company told the ...
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 ...
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' ...
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 ...
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 ...
