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Do You Need Health Insurance if You Have Medicare or Medicaid?

Under health care reform, otherwise known as the Affordable Care Act or Obamacare, uninsured Americans will be required to have health insurance by March 31, 2014 or face a tax

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Health and Wellness Travel Portal MyMEDHoliday.com Adds Philippines to Its popular medical tourism destinations

Lathrop, CA — (SBWIRE) — 09/09/2013 — International medical tourism has a new hotspot, according to health and wellness travel portal MyMEDHoliday.com, which has added the Philippines to its list

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IOM says Rochester has lowest Medicare spending rate in nation

A new study finds that the Rochester, N.Y., area has the lowest overall Medicare spending rate in the nation, a feat health officials attribute to aggressive regional planning that keeps

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Bipartisan Rx for health-care costs

“When we started this 18 months ago,” Tom Daschle told me, “we assumed that there could be a grand bargain.” The former Senate majority leader, a Democrat, laughed ruefully, as

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Bitter Pill: Why Medical Bills Are Killing Us

How outrageous pricing and egregious profits are destroying our health care, By Steven Brill Monday

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What consumers need to know about the Affordable Care Act

Angie Jackson pays cash to see a doctor every six months for high blood pressure medication and otherwise is a “home remedy kind of gal.” She works full-time as a

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Dell recognized for best practices in wellness, healthcare cost reduction

With healthcare spending growing at an unsustainable rate, forward-thinking employers are leveraging the workplace as a setting for improving the health of the U.S. population and reducing avoidable costs. The

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Low-cost insurance could lead to high medical bills

Health insurance plans in Obamacare’s state exchanges will cost less than initially projected, according to a study released Thursday that the administration and its allies said is proof that the

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Medical tourism: Is it OK for you?

Fed up with the high cost of health care, some companies are giving incentives to employees to travel cross the country to get the surgeries they need. Smaller companies like

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How to avoid becoming a victim of Medicare fraud

Lee Dorman gets a lot of phone calls from people who want to give him something. Recently, a man called saying he had a new Medicare card with Dorman’s name

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