The cost of health care in the U.S. is rising at the slowest pace in four decades, helping curb inflation. The consumer-price index dropped 0.4 percent in April from the prior month, a second consecutive decrease and the biggest since...
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Dental work performed at a free health clinic for the uninsured and underinsured at the Los Angeles Sports Arena.
Health Care Costs Slow: Inflation Curb
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Former first lady and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks with her husband former president Bill Clinton as they attend the opening ceremony of the George W. Bush Presidential Center on April 25, 2013 in Dallas, Texas.
Bill Clinton: Hillary 2016 Speculation Waste of Time
Bill Clinton says it’s a waste of time to speculate about his wife’s ambitions for 2016. “That is the worst expenditure of our time,” the former president said today at a 2013 Fiscal Summit sponsored by the Peterson Foundation. Hillary...
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Stickers in English and Spanish are available for voters at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library on November 6, 2012 in Washington, DC.
Obama: ‘Sí, se Puede’ Communicate
President Barack Obama has taken at least one good page from George W. Bush’s book. He knows how to go around the Washington media. Obama, however, has taken it a step further. He knows how to go around the English-speaking...
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The industry today is holding the first-ever conference on covering so-called ``dual eligibles'', people who are both old enough to qualify for Medicare, and poor enough to be put on Medicaid.
Insurers Set Eyes on States’ Oldest, Sickest
As at least 24 U.S. states prepare to move their oldest and sickest citizens from the government’s Medicare and Medicaid health programs into managed-care plans, insurers are figuring out the best way to profit. The industry today is holding the...
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Texas Governor Rick Perry says his first priority as president would be to do away with the new health care law while being interviewed by Google Soapbox at the Iowa State Fair pin this August 15, 2011 file photo in Iowa.
Perry’s Titanic Texas: Health Insurance
Updated at 3:30 pm EDT What don’t Rick Perry and Mitt Romney have in common? Health insurance for their fellow home states’ residents. It was Perry, the Texas governor who also sought the Republican Party’s presidential nomination last year, who...
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Jeb Bush on Medicaid: ‘Trouble Back Home’
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, visiting the Texas legislature, said that sharing his thoughts on Medicaid expansion might raise some hackles back home. It also might cause him trouble at Tenet Healthcare Corp., whose Chief Executive Officer Trevor Fetter told...
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Demonstrators in favor of the Affordable Care Act stand outside the Supreme Court building on June 28, 2012.
Obama Says Health Law Cutting Costs; CBO Chief Isn’t So Sure
From Bloomberg Government’s Congress Tracker blog President Barack Obama said in his State of the Union address that his health-care overhaul is taming costs, though Congress’s top budget advisor isn’t so sure. Douglas Elmendorf, director of the nonpartisan Congressional Budget...
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Demonstrators in favor of the Affordable Care Act hold up signs outside the Supreme Court building after the court's ruling in Washington on June 28, 2012.
Last Chance: States’ One Shot at Exchange Control Looms
This week will be the last opportunity for states to retain some control over the new health insurance markets being readied for 2014 as part of the U.S. Affordable Care Act. States still on the fence about building the exchanges...
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A cardboard cut-out of President Barack Obama in a tent defending "Obamacare" at a street fair in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Health-Care’s Added Cost: Compliance
The 2010 health-care law that’s expected to expand insurance coverage to 27 million Americans in the next decade isn’t cheap: About $1.2 trillion through 2022. There’s another cost, less well known: The time Americans will spend complying with the law...
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New Jersey Governor Chris Christie laughs with David Letterman when the governor makes his first visit to CBS' "Late Show with David Letterman," on Feb. 4.
Christie to Doctor: ‘Shut Up’
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has some advice for the long-distance doctor who advises him to lose weight: “Shut up.” The Republican governor, speaking in Sea Girt today, commented on a news report of Connie Mariano, a physician who worked for...
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