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The Future of Healthcare Could Be a Privacy Nightmare

TONIC - Susan Rinkunas -Feb 8 2018, 10:54am The Amazon healthcare effort and CVS-Aetna merger raise lots of questions. Last Tuesday, Amazon, JP Morgan, and Berkshire Hathaway announced that they…

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Tax on medical devices to resume after 2-year suspension

CNBC via AP- JANUARY 1ST, 2018 While much of corporate America will enjoy a tax cut in the new year, one industry is getting a tax increase it has fought…

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How the New U.S. Tax Plan Will Affect Health Care

Harvard Business Review: David Blumenthal- December 19, 2017 The new Republican tax bill, which the House passed this afternoon and the Senate is expected to approve tonight, is complex, but what…

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UnitedHealth’s Splish Beats CVS-Aetna’s Splash

Bloomberg Gadfly - By Brooke Sutherland Max Nisen - Dec 6, 2017 11:52 AM EST UnitedHealth Group Inc. is that kid in school who's always doing better than you.The $214 billion company…

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On children’s health coverage, congressional inaction has brought us to the ‘nightmare scenario’

LA TIMES - Micahel Hiltzik- November 27, 2017 Child healthcare advocates have been warning, and warning, and warning that Congress’ delay on reauthorizing funds for the Children’s Health Insurance Program…

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Amazon’s cloud is about to announce a huge health-care deal with Cerner

CNBC- Christina Farr | Jordan Novet Published 11:21 AM ET Wed, 22 Nov 2017 Updated 1:22 PM ET Wed, 22 Nov 2017 Amazon's cloud unit to partner with Cerner: Sources Amazon's…

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Insurers make billions off Medicaid in California during Obamacare expansion

Los Angeles Times - Chad Terhune and Anna Gorman- NOVEMBER 6, 2017 Medicaid is rarely associated with getting rich. The patients are poor, the budgets tight and payments to doctors…

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If Republicans Revive Health Care Again, This Is What It Could Mean For Your State

NPR- September 22, 20173:19 PM ET -Danielle Kurtzleben John McCain on Friday imperiled Republicans' latest Affordable Care Act repeal and replace effort when he said he "cannot in good conscience" support…

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Medicare for All or State Control: Health Care Plans Go to Extremes

NY Times - By ROBERT PEAR- SEPT. 13, 2017 WASHINGTON — In one Senate office building, some of the leading lights of the Democratic Party gathered Wednesday to embrace what was…

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States hurry to fix health-insurance markets

The Economist- Aug 31st 2017 | WASHINGTON, DC Though insurers remain, Obamacare is teetering in places NOT long ago, America’s health-insurance markets seemed to be drying up. In June 49 counties…

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