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Catholic college drops student health plan; cites birth control, costs

Ethan Rome: Will the Supreme Court Follow the GOP Plan and Force Seniors to Pay $20,000 More for Rx Drugs?

Fidelity Investments, the gigantic Wall Street mutual fund company, says it will cost a retired couple $20,000 more to buy their medicines if the U.S. Supreme Court overturns the Affordable Care Act. Driven by extremist partisan politics, the Republicans have been working hard …

Expensive hospital readmissions linked to health-care-associated infections

"Although much attention has been directed toward hospital readmissions and healthcare-associated infections as potentially preventable conditions and targets to reduce healthcare spending, to our knowledge, no studies have directly assessed the association between the two," wr …

Heartland EngAGEment Initiative: Status Report on the Aging in Kansas City

The Mid-America Regional Council, Jewish Heritage Foundation and Nonprofit Connect will host the “Heartland EngAGEment Initiative" at the Kauffman Conference Center. The Kansas City Star’s Business Reporter, Diane Stafford, will be our emcee. The Initiative will hi …

Report: Rebates from health care law will top $1B

More than 3 million health insurance policyholders and thousands of employers will share $1.3 billion in rebates this year, thanks to President Barack Obama's health care law, a nonpartisan research group said Thursday.

Money Down the Toilet- Older US Men Ignoring 2008 Prostate Screening Guidelines

Many men, 75 and older, are still undergoing a costly, sometimes painful, potentially harmful procedure whose accuracy is open to question for half of the organ it is suppose to survey.

Hospital of Cards - Andrew Foy, MD - Mises Daily

The US healthcare system is a huge bubble fueled by misguided policies that are sustained by the government's ability to borrow money at artificially low interest rates. When either the policies change or the flow of credit to the US government stops, the bubble will burst. For  …

Health Insurers Switch Baseline for Out-of-Network Charges

Insurance companies defend the shift toward Medicare-based rates under the settlement, which allowed any clear, objective method of calculating reimbursement. They say that premiums would be even costlier if reimbursements were more generous, and that exorbitant doctors’  …

HPV causes 26,000 cancer cases yearly, CDC finds | Fox News

About 26,000 cases of cancer diagnosed in the U.S. each year are caused by infection with the human papillomavirus (HPV), according to a new government report. Of these cases, 18,000 occur in females and 8,000 occur in males, according to researchers from the Centers for Disea …