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By Richard Simon, Los Angeles Times WASHINGTON — Senators on Thursday announced a bipartisan deal on legislation aimed at improving veterans’ health care in response to reports of Veterans Affairs employees falsifying records to conceal ...
By Richard Simon, Los Angeles Times WASHINGTON — As the Senate prepares to take up reform legislation growing out of the VA health care scandal, a group representing Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans called Monday ...
By Chris Adams, McClatchy Washington Bureau WASHINGTON — Wanted: A heath care system “uniquely positioned to lead the country in making … positive changes in the way health care is delivered.” It’s not likely that ...
by Charles Ornstein, ProPublica. Medicare spent $6.7 billion too much for office visits and other patient evaluations in 2010, according to a new report from the inspector general of the U.S. Department of Health and ...
By Kevin G. Hall, McClatchy Washington Bureau WASHINGTON — In the dark hours of the Great Recession, it was one of the few economic bright spots. Week in, week out, the health care sector was ...
New York (AFP) – U.S. drugmaker Pfizer said on Monday it would abandon its controversial bid to acquire British rival AstraZeneca after its final $117-billion offer was rejected last week. “Following the AstraZeneca board’s rejection ...
By David G. Savage, Tribune Washington Bureau WASHINGTON — Even as the Supreme Court considers one challenge to the Obama administration’s rule that female employees be offered health plans that include a full range of contraceptives, ...
By Tony Perry, Los Angeles Times SAN DIEGO — With President Barack Obama in San Diego for a political fundraising event Thursday, a national veterans group called for him to “clean up” the Department of Veterans ...
By Noam Levey and Chad Terhune, Tribune Washington Bureau WASHINGTON — Driven by a last-minute flood of enrollments, particularly in California, sign-ups for health insurance through the Affordable Care Act’s online marketplaces hit 8 million, President ...
After being sued by The Wall Street Journal, the government finally released its Medicare reimbursement data last week. It included the less-than-stunning revelation that 28 of the 100 doctors who received the largest payments in ...
WASHINGTON — Is there any accountability in American politics for being completely wrong? Is there any cost to those who say things that turn out not to be true and then, when their fabrications or ...
by Charles Ornstein, ProPublica. One day very soon, the focus on Obamacare will turn from signing up new enrollees to quantifying the law’s success — or failure. The six-month open enrollment period, during which consumers ...
By Colleen Diskin, The Record HACKENSACK, N.J. — On Monday, the federal government shifts from being a cheerleader for the law requiring all Americans to buy health insurance to an enforcer with the power to ...
By David Lauter, Tribune Washington Bureau WASHINGTON — As Obamacare sign-ups hit the politically important threshold of 6 million this week, new polling has shown that the public has begun to warm a bit to ...
Defending the Affordable Care Act in his memorable nominating speech at the 2012 Democratic convention, Bill Clinton did as he often advises his party’s elected officials: Don’t run away from the argument; confront it directly ...
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