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Healthcare for Angelina Jolie -- and everyone else [Blowback]
We applaud Times columnist Robin Abcarian for shining the light on the inequities in our healthcare system in response to Angelina Jolie’s recent announcement about her prophylactic mastectomy. When Jolie made her medical decision, she had at her...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Social Issues, Breast Cancer, Medical Procedures and Tests, Insurance
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Cedars-Sinai stands out for steep pricing
When Medicare disclosed average charges from thousands of U.S. hospitals for 100 common procedures last week, only one hospital was near the top in every category: Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. Be it a cardiac stent, a hip replacement or a...
Tags: Healthcare Provider, Prices, Medicaid, Hospitals and Clinics, Employment
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Senate approves Obama choice to head Medicare
WASHINGTON – In an unusual break in the partisan warring over healthcare, the Senate on Wednesday confirmed President Obama's choice to oversee the mammoth Medicare and Medicaid health programs. Marilyn Tavenner, a former hospital executive and...
Tags: Barack Obama, Tom Harkin, Health Insurance, Medicaid, Eric Cantor
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Comparing healthcare prices
With increasingly wide-ranging costs for medical procedures, here are some resources to help you find and understand medical prices. • Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services: Data base shows charges for the 100 most common hospital-based...Tags: Insurance, Prices, Hospitals and Clinics, Health Treatments, Private Health Care
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Medicare charges vary widely at California hospitals, new data show
Federal officials are shedding new light on how much hospital bills vary across Southern California and the rest of the country. Medicare released pricing information Wednesday for more than 3,300 U.S. hospitals on the top 100 procedures and...
Tags: Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Pneumonia, St. Joseph Medical Center, Gallbladder Removal, Hospitals and Clinics
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The wrong way for Washington to avoid defaulting
It's rare that the president explicitly pledges to veto a bill -- usually, the White House says the president's advisors would "recommend" a veto -- but that's what happened Tuesday. The measure in question is HR 807, the Full Faith and Credit Act, by...
Tags: Barack Obama, Economy, Business and Finance, Budgets and Budgeting, Viagra (drug), U.S. Department of Defense
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California calls for more disclosure of medical costs [video chat]
California officials are looking to build on a federal effort to disclose more healthcare pricing information to consumers. Medicare officials released new data this week that showed wildly different hospital charges across the nation for 100 of the...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Insurance, Pneumonia, Healthcare Laws, Consumers
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Hospital prices diverge wildly, U.S. data show
New Medicare data reveal wildly varying charges among the nation's hospitals for 100 of the most common in-patient treatments and procedures, calling into question medical billing practices just as U.S. officials try to rein in rising costs. The...
Tags: Insurance, Pneumonia, Health Insurance, Prices, Personal Income
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Workers fired from Nevada hospital accused of 'patient dumping'
Two employees have been fired and three others disciplined at a Las Vegas hospital accused of "patient dumping" -- sending mentally ill patients to other states, including California. The Nevada Department of Health and Human Services announced Monday...
Tags: Brian Sandoval, Pharmaceuticals, Starbucks Corp., Hospitals and Clinics, Chemical Industry
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Is $1,721.75 the bill you'd expect for treating a cut?
It was your basic, run-of-the-mill accident. Kim Haselhoff's 9-year-old son got nipped in the finger by one of the family dogs. It didn't seem too serious, but there was a bit of blood. Unfortunately, the pediatrician's office had just closed, and the...
Tags: Bankruptcy, Aetna Inc., Prices, X-rays, Hospitals and Clinics
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Strategies for cutting the cost of prescription drugs
When Maggie Heim had a recurrence of ovarian cancer about a year after her initial treatment, her oncologist suggested that she take what he believed could be a lifesaving drug. There was just one problem: Her insurer wouldn't pay for it. The 59-year-...
Tags: Drugs and Medicines, National Institutes of Health, High Blood Pressure, Pharmaceuticals, Consumers
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Letters: Baby boomers vs. millenials
Re "A new Democratic agenda," Opinion, April 12 I never thought I'd be one to tell "walking five miles in the snow" stories, but Ronald Brownstein's column on millennials replacing baby boomers as a national priority has thrown me over the edge. I...Tags: Barack Obama, Social Security
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