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ObamaCare: The Threat to Physician Autonomy
March 1, 2010 6:49 PM by Frank Irving

Guest commentary from Richard Amerling, MD, a nephrologist practicing in New York City The debate raging over ObamaCare has been carried on mostly by politicians, pundits, policy wonks and economists, with little input from those most intimately involved Read More...

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The Cost of COBRA
February 16, 2010 5:40 PM by Frank Irving

Don't let it keep you from getting proper health care. Guest commentary from Daniel Touizer, CEO and founder of Cinergy Health Nearly one in five Americans are unemployed and many have been jobless for months. As a result, President Obama's 2010 budget Read More...

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C-SPAN Requests Access to Health Care Talks
January 5, 2010 8:41 PM by Frank Irving

Now that the Senate has passed its health care bill, the push is on to complete reconciliation with the House's bill before President Obama delivers his State of the Union Address next month. Those deliberations are likely to take place behind closed Read More...

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Mammography and the Right to Choose
November 20, 2009 2:55 PM by Frank Irving

Guest commentary from Valerie M. Chapman, RN, MSN I am a wife, a mother of two awesome kids, a daughter, a sister and a nurse. I am also a survivor. At the age of 43 a routine screening mammogram picked up an abnormality in my left breast that turned Read More...

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What PAWA Would Mean to Employers
November 13, 2009 11:38 AM by Frank Irving

The Protecting America's Workers Act of 2009, if passed by Congress, would dramatically alter the regulatory regime. Guest commentary from Eric J. Conn and Robert C. Gombar, partners in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery, LLP, based in Washington, Read More...

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Harvard Research Reveals Startling Stats on Veterans
November 10, 2009 2:57 PM by Frank Irving

Guest commentary from Physicians for a National Health Program , an organization of 17,000 doctors who support single-payer national health insurance. A research team at Harvard Medical School estimates that 2,266 U.S. military veterans under the age Read More...

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Reform is Historic; Price Tag Could be, Too
October 20, 2009 5:32 PM by Frank Irving

Guest commentary from David St. Clair, founder and CEO of MEDecision, a provider of collaborative health care management solutions. I felt the health care reform news out of Washington last week was decidedly mixed. For those of us who have advocated Read More...

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President Spends a Third of His Time on Health Care
July 29, 2009 12:12 PM by Frank Irving

There's no denying the importance of health care reform within President Barack Obama's agenda. In a July 28 interview with Time magazine's Karen Tumulty, the president said that in the last two to three weeks, he's been spending at least a third of his Read More...

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What Women Need
June 23, 2009 4:20 PM by Frank Irving

Guest commentary by Sabrina Corlette, director of health policy programs for the National Partnership for Women & Families In the halls of Congress, in the media, in the coffee shops and restaurants of Washington, D.C. -- health care reform is dominating Read More...

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