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Why You Should Care About The 'Medical Loss Ratio' - Yahoo! News

Unless you are a health care wonk or a health care industry employee, you likely haven't given a ton of thought to the medical loss ratio.

Healthcare and something to think about

We The People…  the pursuit of life, liberty, and happiness…  Can anyone tell me where it says anything about being guaranteed a job, health insurance, a fixed APR, or anything else most people think the government owes them?  Americans want the gover …

BBC News - Glowing wound dressing indicates infection

A wound dressing that glows to indicate an infection has been developed.

Health Care Fraud You Pay For

want to know why medicare and medicaid are going broke? one of the reasons is fraud. today our investigations inc. team begins an ongoing look at the scourge of health care fraud. fraud coming out of your pocket.

Study finds gene "overdose" related to being skinny/weight gene

People with extra copies of certain genes are much more likely to be very skinny, scientists said Wednesday in the first finding of a genetic cause for extreme thinness.

Today, I became a Socialist (with poll)

Well, today I joined a very socialist program here in San Francisco called Healthy San Francisco. It is a health plan (not insurance) for those living in San Francisco who cannot afford or obtain insurance any other way--such as those such as myself who cannot afford COBRA.

The Affordable Care Act Works Without the Individual Mandate to Purchase Health Insurance

The Affordable Care Act, now the law of the land, does not need to include a mandate for individuals to buy health insurance to work, and it may work better without it.

California regulators seek up to $10 billion in fines from PacifiCare/UnitedHealth

California regulators are seeking fines of up to $10 billion from health insurer PacifiCare over allegations that it repeatedly mismanaged medical claims, lost thousands of patient documents, failed to pay doctors what they were owed and ignored calls to fix the problems.

30 Million Women Will Gain From Health Reform Law, Including About 15 Million Uninsured

Approximately thirty million American women will gain from the new health reform law over the next ten years, according to a new report from The Commonwealth Fund, a private foundation based in New York.