Health care law stuck in limbo
Roll Call, February 2, 2012
House Republicans on Wednesday took a symbolic swipe at President Barack Obama's health care reform law when they voted to repeal its long-term care provisions, the CLASS Act, which the administration abandoned last year as unworkable.
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As health costs rise more slowly, how low can we go?
WBUR CommonHealth Blog, February 2, 2012
Employers in Massachusetts routinely complain about health insurance costs rising two, three or eight times faster than inflation
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Potential minefields on the path toward ACO's
WBUR CommonHealth Blog, February 2, 2012
Bruce Landon, an internal medicine doctor at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, offers a smart analysis of ACO's (accountable care organizations) - their potential for both good and bad - in this week's New England Journal of Medicine.
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UMass Memorial Health Care to shed 700 to 900 jobs through layoffs and sales of divisions
Boston Globe, February 1, 2012
UMass Memorial Health Care, which lost money in the last three months of 2011 amid shrinking patient volume, is telling employees today that it will shed 700 to 900 jobs, about 6 percent of its workforce, through a combination of layoffs at its flagship Worcester hospital and by selling divisions that provide health services.
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