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CONSUMER-DRIVEN HEALTHCARE

In the healthcare reform debate, many economists believe that giving consumers more control over their care is the best way to control costs and improve quality. Consumer-driven healthcare does just that, with health savings accounts as the primary vehicle for such control.

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Why Business Fears the Public Optionmore

The Obama Administration's proposed overhaul of the U.S. health-care system—and the possible creation of a publicly...

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The MED stock has had a nice ride over the past year but it is about at its five-year high point about $20 per share.

Internet Use Good for Old: Studymore

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Consumer Driven Health Care: Promise and Performancemore

I am always struck by the difference between the salesmanship of health plans offering consumer-driven health products...

Boomer H1N1 Flu Shotsmore

This Fall is different. Boomers and older are nearly last in line for the H1N1 flu shot.

Matt Miller: A Real Employee Free Choice Actmore

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Skyrocketing Employer Health-Insurance Premiumsmore

Business Roundtable, which represents CEOs from the largest U.S. companies, warned in a report released Sept.

Employers Seek to Limit 2010 Health Cost Increases, Survey Findsmore

Although employers try to reduce their projected cost increases every year, survey respondents say they are cutting...

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Gov. Steve Beshear Thursday joined state and local officials to mark the opening of a life science accelerator building...

If Health Care Were Run Like Retail...more

The incoming Obama Administration put a high priority on health-care reform, especially when it comes to extending...

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Consumer-directed health care has received recent attention as a fundamentally new approach to organizing the financing...

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Why Health Insurers Make Lousy Villainsmore

One of the fresh spectacles we're likely to enjoy this fall is moral outrage—real or feigned—over health insurance...

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Think you have the flu? In some places, you can now go directly to the Internet and report your symptoms to officials...

Why Consumers -- Not Companies -- Should Make Health Care Decisionsmore

Mike McCallister, president and CEO of Humana Inc., is precise when he chooses his words to describe the U.S.

Health Care Reform Becomes Health Insurance Reformmore

President Barack Obama and his team have made a subtle but significant shift in the language they are using in the...

Aetna Announces Results Of A Six-Year Study of Consumer Directed Healt...more

Aetna (NYSE: AET) today announced the results of a six-year study of health care claims and utilization for members in...

MARK GRABAN OF THE LEAN BLOG DISCUSSES LEAN HEALTHCAREmore

I had the pleasure of discussing with Mark on the Business901 podcast, the role he is playing at the Lean Enterprise...

Obama's health care reform billmore

I haven't done too much research into Obama's health care plan, but it is obvious to just about everyone that many...

Young Doctor Wants to Reinvent Health Care more

Young doctor trying to remodel American health care by shunning insurance companies and taking advantage of technology.

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