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States Deal With Small Budgets, Medicaid Cuts
09 February 2010
Virginian-Pilot: Area hospitals are preparing "for a round of Medicaid spending cuts that executives say could be the worst in decades and lead to more cutbacks in their organizations...
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KHN Column: Yes, Let's Talk About Those Republican Ideas
09 February 2010
In his latest Kaiser Health News column, done in partnership with The New Republic, Jonathan Cohn writes: ''[F]or much of the last year, Republicans have been scaring the bejeezus out of seniors by telling them that...
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Study: Medicare Bladder Cancer Treatment Policy Raises Health Costs
09 February 2010
Reuters: "Medicare's move in 2005 to pay doctors to do bladder cancer surgery in their offices rather than in hospitals dramatically raised the number of procedures and overall health costs, U.S. researchers said on Monday. .....
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