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General Healthcare

Pricey health care enough to make New Jersey sick

An Economist Puts Down a Physician's Cri du Couer

Massachusetts Medical Society Study Records Shortages of Primary Care Physicians for the First Time

The Mercury: The Beginning of the End for Liberals

Health Costs Continue to Rise at a Fast Pace

Silence is feeding N.J. graft

AMNews: Jan. 24, 2005. Resolved: To actively shape the future of medicine ... American Medical News

AMNews: Jan. 24, 2005. Drug reimportation situation is shifting as Canada could cut availability ... American Medical News

Weighing the Evidence for Expanding Physician Supply -- Cooper 141 (9): 705 -- Annals of Internal Medicine

USNews.com: Harried by the bureaucracy of medicine, physicians are pulling back from patient care (1/31/05)

Power to the patient -- The Washington Times

Codey says suspend property tax rebate

AMNews: Jan. 24, 2005. U.S. health spending hit $1.7 trillion in 2003 ... American Medical News

AMNews: Feb. 21, 2005. Medical costs lead more people to bankruptcy ... American Medical News

Mcgreevey Sucks

Digital Rx: Take Two Aspirins and E-Mail Me in the Morning

The Manifesto of Dr. D

AMNews: Letters to the Editor - Jan. 3/10, 2005 ... American Medical News

Free health care? - The Washington Times: Commentary - July 22, 2004

OpinionJournal - Featured Article - The Pain Killer Panic

Arrests convince some all politicians corrupt

Unruly Special Session Looms (washingtonpost.com)

AMNews: March 14, 2005. Physician shortage? Push is on for more medical students ... American Medical News

Md.'s Campus Concerns (washingtonpost.com)

Neurosurgeon Files Patent Application For Universal Solution to Current Healthcare

Four Steps Toward Solving Our 'Grand National Problem'

Health Care Crisis Should Be on the Minds of Pennsylvania Voters, GOP

Cost-saving surgery lures 'medical tourists' abroad

9 Things AHA's 'Pricing Transparency' Implies For You

Hispanic and African American Adults Are Uninsured at Rates One-and-a Half to Three Times Higher Than White Adults

Administration Aims to Set Health-Care Standards

Companies explore overseas healthcare

Agencies Will Rate Quality of Care

Physician Group Decries 1.3 Million Rise in Uninsured

The Value of Medical Spending in the United States, 1960?2000

Number of Uninsured Children Rises

Nearly Nine of Ten Who Seek Individual Market Health Insurance Never Buy a Plan

Surgery abroad an option for those with minimal health coverage

Notify the Triage Nurse Right Away if Medical Condition Worsens in an Emergency Department Waiting Room, Emergency Physicians Say

New National Scorecard: U.S. Health Care System Gets Poor Scores on Quality, Access, Efficiency, and Equity

Scarce medical care cuts longevity in Greene, Fayette counties

What's Really Propping Up The Economy

New National Scorecard: U.S. Health Care System Gets Poor Scores on Quality, Access, Efficiency, and Equity

Fraud and abuse agency shares its 2007 plans

Heart care in poor, rural counties is ranked lower

Hope, at thousands of dollars a dose

Health Care Spending Growth Stays in High-Altitude Holding Pattern in 2005

Releasing pay plan information may improve patient-practice relations

Casey, Santorum agree health-care premiums too high

Confident Democrats draft broad healthcare agenda

Answers in short supply about out-of-control healthcare costs and the uninsured

Studies Look for Reasons Behind Racial Disparities in Health Care

Doctors report low morale; many consider leaving medicine

The Road to Universal Coverage

Medical claims 'mined' to find fraud

New York looks at workers? health costs

AHIP launches campaign to insure every American

Recent closing of hospitals cause concern

State Lawmaker Introduces Bill for Universal Coverage

A Health Plan Only the People Could Like

Health Insurance Costs May Hike Uninsured

Needs of Patients Outpace Doctors - Los Angeles Times

Health savings accounts growing, but prognosis remains unclear - Orlando Business Journal:

Doctor Tells Senate Leaders Infection Controls Save Lives, Money

Bush administration to propose new tax breaks for medical expenses

Low Payments by U.S. Raise Medical Bills Billions a Year

Fed-up doctor sidesteps insurance company limits - The Boston Globe

Probe says US emergency care in trouble

Study: Emergency Rooms at 'Breaking Point'

Rise of retail clinics giving doctors a chill | Chicago Tribune

Overseas Surgeries Gaining Favor, Spawning New Mexico Businesses

Study: Doctors' pay falling

Study: Doctors' pay falling - Nashville, Tennessee - Tuesday, 06/27/06 - Tennessean.com

Retail clinics: The competition heats up - In Minnesota, Blue Cross and Blue Shield has exempted patients who use walk-in clinics from copays. - Medical Economics

Is your doctor paid to keep you healthy? Probably not.

New Jersey healthcare group to repay $265 million to Medicare -- Business -- HealthLeadersMedia.com

USATODAY.com - AMA says health insurance should be required for those who can afford it

USATODAY.com - Health care report urges dialogue on reform

Study: Canadians healthier than Americans - Yahoo! News

Nurse Midwives Becoming More Mainstream

Deficit bill could derail doctor-owned hospitals -- HealthLeadersMedia.com

Wal-Mart's Unhealthy Care Leaves Taxpayers Paying the Bill Petition

New Tax Breaks for Medical Expenses

FDA's sensitivity to safety concerns keeps effective new drugs off shelves

Record Share Of Economy Spent on Health Care

Editorial: New Jersey's Medical School Mess

U.S. Emergency Care Not Making the Grade: Report

States Average a C-minus for Emergency Care

FOXNews.com - Politics - Bush Signs Executive Order Raising Federal Pay

Healthcare, vexing to Clinton, is now at top of Bush's agenda

MGMA 2005 Cost Surveys: Growing costs, deeper discounts mean stagnant margins for primary care groups

Bush Takes Energy, Health - Care Agenda on the Road

Budget Cuts Take Aim at Medical Programs - Yahoo! News

Health accounts would cost U.S. Treasury $59 billion

Doctors' lounge: A tradition slowly dies - Medical Economics

When trust in doctor erodes, other alternatives fill the void

President's plan aims to expand on savings accounts

Healthcare costs top benefit concerns in the U.S.

Bush Calls for Human Cloning Ban, Medical Liability Reform; Hails Abstinence, Adoption Policies for Aiding Reduction in Abortions

President's Health Reform Agenda Draws Mixed Reviews

Search Results - THOMAS (Library of Congress)

Health Care for All, Just a (Big) Step Away - New York Times

ACP Online - ObserverWeekly - 26 April 2005

Career Shifts?

Americans for Free Choice in Medicine

CNN.com - GOP building support for filibuster rule change - Apr 18, 2005

AMNews: April 4, 2005. Family medicine sees 8th consecutive year of Match losses ... American Medical News

Boston.com: National health insurance: the wrong Rx

Curbing the Costs of Healthcare

The New York Times Magazine - The Quality Cure?

Healthcare is Not a Right

G O P.com :: Sign a Petition

The Health Care Debate (Letter)

Campaign spending hits the roof

LP: I survived Soviet health care--barely

Coverage & Access | Washington Post Examines Physicians' Charging of Annual Fees, Other Payments To Address Rising Costs - Kaisernetwork.org

Philadelphia Inquirer | 09/16/2005 | Letters | What ails doctors goes beyond med school

Plenty of Blame to Share for High Health Care Costs (Opinion)

Jersey City MD drops 'ouster plot' suit

Health Care Reform

URBAN-SUBURBAN HOSPITAL DISPARITIES GROW IN NORTHERN NEW JERSEY

AMNews: March 14, 2005. Health spending outpaces economy ... American Medical News

Michigan faces doctor shortage

Magic City Morning Star: After Plundering our Votes and Pillaging our Trust, Democrats-in-GOP-Clothing Will Never Again Get a Free Pass to Wreak Havoc

Agency Predicts Shortfall of Some Doctors - Yahoo! News

Physician shortage, aging boomers and reimbursement models complicate golden years

Op-Ed: The Doctor Will See You for Exactly Seven Minutes

Chicago Tribune | The emergency in the ER

Health Care for Everyone? (Mitt Romney Op-Ed)

Massachusetts health plan seems unlikely to be U.S. model -- Trends -- HealthLeadersMedia.com

Percentage of Uninsured Americans Rising - Yahoo! News

New Survey Finds Rising Numbers of Uninsured In Moderate- and Middle-Income American Families

Congress Shows Little Appetite for Bush's Health-Care Agenda

Senate to Take Up Health Coverage Bill - Yahoo! News

Senate Takes Up Small Business Health Bill

U.S. Newborn Survival Rate Ranks Low - Yahoo! News

Senator: Money-strapped NJ should target health insurer surplus

Senators tackle health insurance woes as businesses cry foul -- Newsday.com

Small Business Insurance Stalls in Senate

Surgeon Faces New Challenges

Massachusetts legislation on insurance becomes law

Charlotte Business Journal: Consumer plans to test M.D.s' business acumen - 2006-03-13

Lawmakers Speak Out On Matters Large and Small

President Bush Discusses Health Proposals, Other State Of The Union Themes While In Nashville

The doctor is in - but at what price?

Charlotte Business Journal: Cost-cutting moves could affect care, investment - 2006-03-13

Law Keeps Federally Insured Doctors On Sidelines In Disasters

CyRobby - Life in the Lab: Physicians are Greedy Bastards that are hurting the United States

Aggravated DocSurg: A(nathe)MA

Hope for Health Care?

Philadelphia Inquirer | 02/22/2006 | Health cost to double in decade

Bush Moves to Return Focus to Energy, Health-Care Plans

USATODAY.com - States want info about drugmakers' gifts to doctors

TIME Magazine Archive Article -- Outsourcing Your Heart -- May 29, 2006

Bush Spars with Democrats Over Health Agenda

State considers a gross receipts tax for businesses

Physicians' on-call system may have to go through changes or die - Business First of Columbus:

Bush Tries to Revive Struggling Health Initiative

In Connecticut, Bush talks of soaring healthcare costs

Panel Said to Call for Closing 9 New York Hospitals

The importance of paperless medicine

More Doctors Turning to the Business of Beauty

Death rates per doctor to be listed

GOP Lawmakers Add Provision to Passing Tax Package

Hospital serial killers are big threat, study says

Health Policy 2007

Health care debate to heat up in 2007

Medical Insurance ? Sorry, You're Not Covered!

Doctors give drug reps less time

City vs. City: When It Comes to Health Insurance Costs, Geography Matters

U.S. doctors are being trained in Cuba

Comp remains low for pediatricians, surges for subspecialists

HEALTH CARE: LOOKING FOR ANSWERS

FDA Drug Approval at Lowest Rate

Lost time is cancer's hidden toll

Merck, Pfizer Lead List of Drug Approvals in 2006

The Doctor Is In

Health care spending up 6.9 pct. in '05

AAFP-Led Coalition Urges Congress to Enact Health System Reform Based on Group's Principles

Crisis for nation's EDs

Doctor morale shaky as practice stressors surge

Death Knell May Be Near for Public Election Funds

A Good Start On Health Care Reform

Comprehensive Reforms to Move Toward Patient-Centered Care Released by ACP

New Approach

A Healthy Initiative

The President's Health Insurance Proposal - A First Look

Nation's Emergency Physicians Applaud President's Renewed Focus on Expanding Health Insurance

AMA applauds health care focus in State of the Union

Physicians and Nurses Decry Bush Health Plan, Reject Reform Based on Private Insurance

President Bush's focus on healthcare draws criticism, new hope

Making Health Care Affordable: Bush's Bold Health Tax Reform Plan

President Bush offers a new initiative on health insurance

Bush's Health Insurance Plan Includes Pros, Cons for Family Physicians

Health and Taxes

Experts See Peril in Bush Health Proposal

N.J. emergency rooms are 'maxed out'

Only 110 more days until the National Provider Identifier (NPI) compliance date!

Spitzer?s First Budget Assails Health Care System

Bill addresses ailing health care system

?The Nurse Practitioner Will See You Now?

Focus on patients, not profits

Edwards risks tax hike for health plan

Perry proposes privatizing lottery to fund health care

Convenient care clinic expansion

The Psychodynamics of the Radical Liberal Mind

SEIU PARTNERSHIP WITH FORTUNE 500 COMPANIES, LABOR AND CIVIC LEADERS TO SPUR EFFORT TO FIX HEALTH CARE IN AMERICA

Change and improvement: Linking CME to quality

Health Care's A Mess--So What's the Solution?

Medicare | HHS Launches Pilot Program To Identify Medicare Billing Fraud for Medical Equipment

State Watch | Massachusetts Health Insurance Law Takes Effect

Capitol Hill Watch | Democrats Work To Reauthorize, Expand SCHIP While Bush Administration Tries To Limit Program Growth

Coverage & Access | ERISA Could Hurt States' Efforts To Expand Health Coverage of Uninsured Residents

Capitol Hill Watch | Growing Number of Lawmakers Support Tobacco Tax Increase To Fund SCHIP Reauthorization, Expansion

Election 2008 | Democratic Presidential Candidates Propose Pragmatic Approaches to Universal Health Care To Avoid Pitfalls of 1990s Health Reform Effort

Capitol Hill Watch | Republican Sens. Grassley, Hatch Urge President Bush To Consider SCHIP Reauthorization, Expansion Legislation

Capitol Hill Watch | Sen. Enzi Introduces 10-Step Proposal To Expand Access to Health Care, Insurance, CQ HealthBeat Reports

Want a healthy scare? Check out the cost of medical insurance

New York AG Objects to Insurer's Method for Ranking Doctors by Cost and Quality--Just What We Need in Health Metrics--Lawyers

What Sicko Left Out

Who Killed U.S. Medicine?

Doctors Rated but Can't Get a Second Opinion

HILLARY, JOHN AND BARAK

Sending Back the Doctor’s Bill

Health Care Marketplace | Salaries for U.S. Physicians Contribute to High Health Spending, Some Economists Say

Rudy Giuliani Discusses His Commitment To Giving Americans Increased Control And Access To Health Care

The Healthcare Blog

Childbirth at a Crossroads IN SOUTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA

Commission on Rationalizing Health Care Resources

HEALTH PROFESSIONAL SHORTAGE AREAS: Problems Remain with Primary Care Shortage Area Designation System

Grassroots PA

Latest Placebo Gazette

The Lancet: The Unspoken Issue That Haunts the UK General Election

From Dr. Anthony Caggiano: OVERCOME RESISTANCE WITH PERSISTANCE

New Jersey: Demographics

Banana Republic

Consumer Reports Survey: Patients and Doctors Disagree on Some Essential Issues

CMS RELEASES U.S. HEALTH SPENDING ESTIMATES THROUGH 2005

Setting the Record Straight: President Bush's Standard Deduction for Health Insurance Would Save Money for More Than 100 Million Americans

Politically Active Physicians Association - Home of the Fighting Docs

Tort Reform

Clause in Health Care Plans Blocks Lawsuits

Texas malpractice insurance rates dropping after Proposition 12 passage

Medical Lawsuits by Thomas Sowell -- Capitalism Magazine

AMNews: Jan. 31, 2005. Keeping the issue alive: How to keep medical liability in the news ... American Medical News

AMNews: Jan. 31, 2005. Liability premium shock is spreading, an AMNews exclusive survey shows ... American Medical News

CNN.com - Tort reform important to U.S. future - Jan 6, 2005

AMNews: Jan. 24, 2005. Bush stumping for liability reform in 'judicial hellhole' ... American Medical News

Bar Sues Over Fee Aimed at MD's Malpractice Ills

AMNews: Jan. 24, 2005. Nevada high court weighs in on part of tort reform law ... American Medical News

AMNews: Jan. 3/10, 2005. Insurer gives prize for ideas to curb lawsuits ... American Medical News

Ehrlich's Bill (washingtonpost.com)

Paying for Malpractice Insurance (washingtonpost.com)

Democrats Reap Donations Tied to Malpractice Fight (washingtonpost.com)

State Supreme Court strikes down cap on malpractice awards - 2005-07-14

Study: Pennsylvania's malpractice fees driving away young doctors

AMNews: Feb. 7, 2005. Preventing lawsuits: Coalition pushes apologies and cash up-front ... American Medical News

AMNews: Feb. 7, 2005. 5 steps doctors should take to achieve liability reform ... American Medical News

Common Good: Thornberry Introduces Legislation to Create Special Health Courts

AMNews: May 9, 2005. Physicians rally on Capitol Hill for tort reform ... American Medical News

AMNews: May 2, 2005. Florida bill would triple liability requirement ... American Medical News

AMNews: May 9, 2005. New Jersey appellate ruling adds to physicians' liability worries ... American Medical News

Doctors Spend Day In Washington D.C.

Jackson Action

AMNews: April 18, 2005. Physicians in 4 states score tort reform wins ... American Medical News

Tort reform and civility: toward a national apology privilege

Have State Caps On Malpractice Awards Increased The Supply Of Physicians?

UH -Top Education Stories - Doctors push St. Luke's to forgo $25 million gift

AMNews: March 28, 2005. Three crisis states show improvement since tort reform ... American Medical News

USATODAY.com - Insurers, not just lawyers, inflict real pain on doctors

Policy Impact Strategic Communications

Senate Takes Up Class-Action Restrictions (washingtonpost.com)

Malpractice insurers record healthy gains after tort reform

Trial lawyers change a name, not their game

Opinion | Physicians 'Reluctant' To Disclose Medical Errors to Patients, Editorial States

Liability Reforms Helping Sick and Injured Texans

Trial lawyers might seek hike in malpractice awards

Conn. Trial Lawyers Again Call for Review of Med-Mal Rates

N.J. program targets malpractice premiums

Aon Study Finds Hospital Professional and Physician Liability Claims Stabilizing

Is there a doctor in the house?

Connecticut court upholds doctors' right to pay only part of jury award

Florida doctors and lawyers turn to waivers after tort ruling

Women's Access to Health Care Hurt by Medical Liability Crisis

Malpractice claims data compiled

Capitol Hill Watch | Senate HELP Committee To Consider Prescription Drug Safety Bill

Doctors' numbers decline in Pennsylvania

PA taxpayers to pay $1 million to plaintiffs' attorneys following ACLU lawsuit

USATODAY.com - 'Wrong site' surgeries on the rise

Vaccine makers helped write Frist-backed shield law - Nashville, Tennessee - Monday, 05/08/06 - Tennessean.com

Malpractice suits often groundless, study says - The Boston Globe

Medicine Needs Long-Term Fix (Letter to the Editor)

Math Divides Critics As Startling Toll of Torts Is Added Up

Sometimes, it has to be said: 'I made a mistake'

Trial Lawyers Inc. Health Care

Malpractice Debates

In Pa., Vital Signs are Stable (Opinion)

Doctors Respond to Emergency-Care Issues

Roundtable: Managing Litigation Risks

Code Blue: The Case for Serious State Medical Liability Reform

Don't Blame the Doctors (Letter to the Editor)

Emergency Care Needs Insurance Rx (Opinion)

Neurologists Take a Stand on Bearing Witness - CME Teaching Brief - MedPage Today

Malpractice Crisis Lingers (Letter to the Editor)

A Probusiness State of the Union (Analysis)

State Of The Union: Affordable And Accessible Health Care

American Family Physicians Call For Liability Reform Now

Malpractice Insurance Crisis is Far From Over (Letter to the Editor)

Bush Lists Health Care, Tax, Energy Policies on '06 Agenda

The Tort Wars, at a Turning Point

Hospitals risk losing specialists in ERs

Calculating Malpractice Claims

Calculating Malpractice Claims

Medical-Malpractice Insurance Crisis is Abating, Some Say

Signs of 'Crisis' Fading

Insurers Paid 31% Less for Claims Between 1986, 1994 Than Reported, Study Says

Malpractice Crisis is Over, Group Says

Malpractice Insurers Inflated Losses, Study Finds

Rendell Must Change Tack to End Liability Mess (Letter to the Editor)

It's OK to Apologize

Statement Declaring End of Crisis Suspect (Editorial)

Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report Highlights Malpractice Developments in Two States

The Cost of Delivery

Nominee Puts Emphasis on Malpractice

Investigate Why Doctors Are Disappearing - Doctors For Medical Liability Reform

Malpractice Claims Rose Against New York City Last Year

Kill All the Lawyers, Cut Costs?

Nominee puts emphasis on malpractice

Reforms to Medicare Physician Payments, Malpractice Laws Unlikely This Year, Lawmaker Tells AMA Conference

Jury-Awards Legislation (Opinion)

Neurosurgeons Flee High Insurance Costs

Rendell Vetoes Liability Bill

Mandatory Health Courts Injurious to Patient Rights (Letter to the Editor)

Medical Malpratice Bill Advances In Two States

A Cancerous Development in Hub: Malpractice Suits Spike Over Botched Diagnoses

Law Keeps Federally Insured Doctors On Sidelines In Disasters

A State Health Court Would Be In Order

Jury rejects claim that Vioxx caused death -- HealthLeadersMedia.com

Lawyers, doctors agree on malpractice reform

Malpractice bill advances - The Olympian - Olympia, Washington

Doctors consider giving up obstetrics, say risk is too great - The Olympian - Olympia, Washington

Discipline Doctors Who Err (Opinion)

Proposed Long-Term Care Legislation Outlined

Americans for Insurance Reform Report Says Med-Mal 'Crisis' is Over

Wisc. malpractice awards for pain, suffering limited to $750,000

Florida Medical Malpractice Market Competitive, Report Finds

Malpractice insurance law seems to be working

Who Killed the Mass Torts Bonanza? (Opinion)

U.S. Tort Costs Total $261 Billion in 2005, According to Tillinghast Study

Competition gives Illinois doctors malpractice insurance options

Maryland's Biggest Malpractice Insurer to Cut Premiums 8%

Malpractice Reform Seen as a Necessity

Malpractice damages in '05 topped $119 million

Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report Highlights Recent Developments Related to Medical Malpractice in Four States

Surgeon Meets Malpractice Attorney

Malpractice payouts decline

Medical Justice Services: Controlling the spread of frivolous lawsuits

Medical Malpractice Risk Retention Group Launched in New York

Capitol Hill Watch | American Medical Association Adjusts Strategy on Lobbying for Medical Malpractice Legislation

Patient, protect thyself

Pediatricians Find Barriers to Reporting Medical Errors

Low Health Literacy Puts Patients at Risk: The Joint Commission Sets Forth Solutions to National Problem

Dan Popeo: Money for nothing: Judges and lawyers abuse our legal system

Lawsuit reform battle heats up again at state Capitol

Pa. physicians fearing boost in malpractice insurance fees

Do pediatricians face a malpractice crisis?

New York Doctors Frustrated Over Malpractice Insurance Hike

Do-It-Yourself Tort Reform

Pennsylvania Reviews Malpractice Insurance

NC medical malpractice award limits approved by General Assembly

Medical Economics - Malpractice: How to stay out of harm's way

Thoreau: Civil Disobedience (DL SunSITE)

Sick of Lawsuits? You Should Be!

Common Good: Health Courts: A Better Approach to Malpractice Reform

Association of Trial Lawyers of America: How It Works with Ralph Nader Against Tort Reform

The Growth Of Physician Medical Malpractice Payments: Evidence From The National Practitioner Data Bank

HB393 - TORT REFORM - Byrd, Richard

MSDC Survey Confirms Escalating Medical Liability Crisis

A message from your Doctor about the Medical Liability Crisis

Trial Lawyers Inc.

Mini Documentary - Windows - Doctors For Medical Liability Reform

A2424: Establishes Medical Malpractice Liability Insurance Premium Increase Review Panel in Department of Banking and Insurance.

American Urological Association -- Medical Liability Reform NOW!

Animation 5 - Doctors For Medical Liability Reform