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New Senate Bill to Replace ACA Gives More Power to States
Robert Lowe – September 13, 2017 A group of Senate Republicans today introduced yet another bill that would largely repeal and…
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Painful Choices: Why The GOP Health Plan Had To Fail
Published on July 24, 2017/Robert Pearl, M.D., Forbes Healthcare Contributor Pain is a more powerful emotion than pleasure. Loss has a far…
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Senate Health Care Bill Includes Deep Cuts to Medicaid
By ROBERT PEAR and THOMAS KAPLAN – JUNE 22, 2017 WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans, who have promised a repeal of the Affordable…
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Why The ‘Cadillac Tax’ Will Drive Healthcare Costs Higher For The Middle Class
By Robert Pearl, MD The Affordable Care Act (ACA), despite its laudable policy goals, contains a provision that could negatively…
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Transition to risk: The future has arrived for health systems and physician groups
By Paul Jawin, JD and Lisa Fraser, MHA The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the Federal government agency…
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Paulsen, Kind expected to file new bill aimed at repealing medical device tax this week
January 5, 2015 by Brian Johnson MassDevice.com has learned that Reps. Erik Paulsen (R-Minn.) and Ron Kind (D-Wis.) plan this…
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Will Republican Majority Or Courts Dismantle ObamaCare?
By SALLY C. PIPES Republicans officially take over Congress next month, but their leaders do not appear optimistic about fulfilling…
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Obama’s Latest Bait and Switch for Docs: Medicaid Payments to be Cut by 40%
Dr Kevin Ray Campbell As we enter year two of the Affordable Care Act, we have seen many issues arise…
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ObamaCare’s Threat to Private Practice
By SCOTT GOTTLIEB Here’s a dirty little secret about recent attempts to fix ObamaCare. The “reforms,” approved by Senate and House…
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Minnesota med tech needs tax repealed
Article by: SHAYE MANDLE Over the weekend, the Star Tribune published commentaries by Lee Schafer (“Killing tax on devices won’t…
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We wish you a … tax repeal!
By Amanda Pedersen Right about this time last week, somewhere between the third slice of pumpkin pie and a turkey-induced…
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Healthcare spending in the US grows at slowest rate since 1960
By Elise Viebeck U.S. healthcare spending grew 3.6 percent in 2013, the slowest rate on record since 1960, federal health…
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Due To Excise Tax, B. Braun Halts Plans For New HQ
By Brian Pedersen A federally imposed medical device excise tax has stopped plans for new corporate headquarters for one of…
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Economic arguments for and against the medical device tax
Austin Frakt If you’re interested in the Affordable Care Act’s 2.3% medical device excise tax (pro, con, or neutral), you…
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ObamaCare’s Anti-Innovation Effect
By SCOTT W. ATLAS Of the many unintended consequences of the Affordable Care Act, perhaps the least noticed is its…
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