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- Essential Reading: How National Healthcare Systems Evolved
- Atul Gawande, a Boston-area surgeon, researcher and writer for the New Yorker, has just published a fascinating look at how national healthcare systems around the world grew and evolved from very different starting points. The subject is obviously timely because of momentum building behind a major healthcare reform later this...
- Blog posts 2009-01-29
- Stop & Shop One-Ups Walmart With Free Generic Drug Offering
- Stop & Shop has gone one better than Walmart's $4 prescription drug plan. It's offering generic antibiotics free of charge through July 11. The company says: If your physician feels you need an antibiotic, just bring in your prescription and you can get up to a 14-day supply of...
- Blog posts 2009-03-25
- Lilly CEO Lechleiter and PhRMA's Boogeyman: a "Government-Run Plan"
- Get used to hearing this phrase in the debate over healthcare reform: "a government run-plan." That is the boogeyman that Eli Lilly CEO John Lechleiter used in his op-ed today in the Wall Street Journal to scare Americans away from universal healthcare coverage. by Jim Edwards
- Blog posts 2009-05-15
- House Health-Care Reform Bill Deserves Public Support
- Why the House reform legislation deserves support from those who want universal healthcare. by Ken Terry
- Blog posts 2009-11-06
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- Shareholders to Weigh In On Universal Healthcare
- The question of whether and how to reform the U.S. healthcare system has opened on a new front -- shareholder activism. Over the past several months, the SEC has told several major corporations that they must allow shareholder votes on proposals that would commit the companies to...
- Blog posts 2008-05-28
- Universal Healthcare in California Proposed
- Blue Shield of California is proposing a plan to provide universal healthcare coverage for California.The proposal builds on the current employer-based system. The plan calls for additional individual and business costs to be supplemented, as needed, with a broad-based tax or fee. The case study tells us about a health...
- Case studies 2002-12-04
- Healthcare Roundup: Mass Blues Cut Admin Costs, Hawaii Drops Child Healthcare, and More
- Massachusetts Blues focus on internal cost-cutting -- In a departure for the managed-healthcare field, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Massachusetts aims to rein in its own administrative costs as a way of coping with the erosion of employer-based health insurance and competition. The move strikes a sharp contrast with...
- Blog posts 2008-10-17
- Buying Healthcare Stocks for an Obama Presidency
- Mark Barath submits: If you own any healthcare stocks, especially HMOs, you have felt the unease of investors this year. In an election year, especially one in which universal healthcare has been a key position; these stocks have taken a tumble. Because of this idealism, some healthcare names have seen...
- External links 2008-08-01
- Is Universal Healthcare the Key to Saving the Big Three Automakers?
- Bullish Bankers submits: The last time major healthcare reform was on the table, Bill Clinton was less than halfway through his first term in office. Although a speech in September 1993 garnered widespread support for an overhauling of our healthcare system, Republicans stalled efforts to conjure long term...
- External links 2009-03-08
- The Difficult Realities of Healthcare in Our Country
- EMILY FRIEDMAN AND Deborah Chollet raise important issues about the future of health insurance, the uninsured, and the underinsured; Friedman also focuses on possible consequences to our nation's hospitals. These two authors reflect my own view that the healthcare system in the United States is broken and that structural reforms...
- Research articles 2005-07-01
- Why over there isn't over here; Experts say U.S. can look to foreign healthcare systems to adopt best practices.(International Healthcare)
- Byline: Shawn Rhea Few politicians in their battle to lay claim to a fix for the U.S. healthcare-coverage crisis have been willing to seriously consider the financial and regulatory tactics used by other countries to achieve universal healthcare. The potential for...
- Research articles 2008-03-31
- Three Beneficiaries of China's Healthcare Reform
- China’s unprecedented economic growth during the past decade has generated incredible wealth, but the country’s population is also demanding a higher standard of living. As the result, the government plans to spend some $124 billion over the next three years to provide accessible and affordable healthcare to the country’s 1.3...
- External links 2009-08-17
- BearingPoint Predicts Rapid Expansion of Health Savings Accounts if Universal Health Coverage Programs are Adopted
- With Universal Healthcare a Central Topic of Election-Year Debate, BearingPoint Outlines Impact to Health Banking Constituents - Including a Strong Up-Tick in HSAs
- Research articles 2008-02-12
- Zacks Releases Four Powerful ''Buy'' Stocks: HMS Holdings Corp., Casey's General Stores, Universal Healthcare Svc. and CSG Systems International
- CHICAGO -- Four free stock picks are being made available today on Zacks.com. The industryâ??s leading independent research firm highlights one Zacks #1 Rank Strong Buy or a Zacks...
- Research articles 2009-05-14
- The Health Insurance Act Of 2003 –California's Answer To Universal Healthcare Coverage Leaves Many Questions Unanswered
- This article discusses Act of 2003 that requires most California employers to provide health insurance coverage for employees. The Act requires California employers with 50 or more employees to pay an as yet undermined "Fee" to a new state Health Purchasing Program, which provides healthcare coverage for employees, and, in...
- White papers 2003-10-20
- Universal American Financial Corp. to Present at the 22nd Annual JPMorgan Healthcare Conference
- Business Editors/Health/Medical Writers JPMorgan 22nd Annual Healthcare Conference RYE BROOK, N.Y.--BUSINESS WIRE--Jan. 12, 2004 Universal American Financial Corp. (NASDAQ:UHCO) ("Universal American") announced today that its chairman and CEO, Richard Barasch, will present at the 22nd Annual JPMorgan Healthcare Conference on Thursday, January 15, 2004 at 8:00 AM...
- Research articles 2004-01-12
- Intersystems Debuts Ensemble Universal Integration Platform
- InterSystems Corporation, Cambridge, Mass., has announced that Hunterdon Healthcare System has signed an agreement to utilize its Ensemble universal integration platform for multiple new integration projects through 2005. InterSystems develops and markets the Ensemble universal integration platform and, with its CACHE post-relational database, is a leading provider of data...
- Research articles 2005-03-01
- Cinven acquires, alongside The Carlyle Group and Apax Partners, the healthcare and business publications of Vivendi Universal Publishing.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-19 April 2002-Cinven: Cinven acquires, alongside The Carlyle Group and Apax Partners, the healthcare and business publications of Vivendi Universal Publishing C1994-2002 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:18042002 Cinven, the leading provider of private equity for larger European ...
- Research articles 2002-04-19
- Universal Standard Medical Laboratories Inc. Announces Corporate Name Change to Universal Standard Healthcare Inc. and NASDAQ Symbol Change to UHCI
- SOUTHFIELD, Mich.--BW HealthWire--Aug. 25, 1997--Universal Standard Medical Laboratories Inc. (NASDAQ:USML) announces its name change to Universal Standard Healthcare Inc. and NASDAQ symbol change to UHCI, effective immediately.
- Research articles 1997-08-25
- HBS's Christensen: Why Universal Health Care Failed in Massachusetts
- Of late, Clayton Christensen of the Harvard Business School has applied his views on innovation to the health care arena. His recent book The Innovator's Prescription: A Disruptive Solution for Health Care (co-authored with Dr. Jerome Grossman and Dr. Jason Hwang) has influenced industry executives and government reformers...
- Blog posts 2009-08-19
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