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health policy
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Obamacare Stability Issues Have Trade Groups Speaking Up
Amid recent reports that the Affordable Care Act's premiums are proving unsustainable for insurers, associations representing both hospitals…
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Marketing / CommunicationsArticleOver 5 years old
President Obama’s Medical Journal Article: How It Happened
The Journal of the American Medical Association is one of many unexpected places President Obama has made his…
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Why Telemedicine Is Making Major Progress Nationally
With HR departments starting to embrace the technology, telemedicine is on track to see massive growth in 2016.…
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AdvocacyArticleOver 5 years old
Groups Recommend Weight-Loss Surgery as Diabetes Cure
The American Diabetes Association and dozens of other groups say that the risk of diabetes is such that…
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Physicians Take Strong Stance on Climate Change
The American College of Physicians calls for action to mitigate climate change and urges doctors to make their…
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Ad Campaign: How Nursing Layoffs Affect Public Health
Through a new ad campaign, the Ontario Nurses Association is working to educate the public on how laying…
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OperationsArticleOver 5 years old
Approaching ACA Deadlines: What Association Leaders Need to Know
With deadlines approaching for the Employer Shared Responsibility and Individual Mandate provisions of the Affordable Care Act, business…
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Advocacy Via Data Intelligence
The Virginia Hospital and Healthcare Association (VHHA) is on a mission to demonstrate the vital importance of hospitals…
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Association Agenda: Roll Back the Cadillac Tax?
Planned tax on healthcare plans already pinching employers.
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Planned Healthcare Plan Tax Already Pinching Employers
Congress has a long list of issues to address as 2015 winds down, but support is growing among…
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Medical Association: End Advertising for Prescription Drugs
The powerful American Medical Association this week called for Congress to ban pharmaceutical advertising, arguing it hurt consumers…
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American Medical Association: Insurer Mergers Harm Patients
Massive insurance company mergers will diminish competition and have harmful consequences for patients across the country, according to…
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American Cancer Society Maps Cancer’s Toll on America
To assist in its advocacy efforts, the American Cancer Society is mapping cancer mortality rates and state legislative…
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Groups Push for Repeal of Affordable Care Act’s ‘Cadillac’ Tax
The groups are warning that Americans are already affected by the tax in the form of higher copays…
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Affordable Care Act: Business Groups Double Down
The National Retail Federation and nearly two dozen other trade groups are asking the Senate to take action…
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American Medical Association Boosts Obesity Education for Doctors
This week, at the American Medical Association's annual meeting, members of the American Society of Bariatric Physicians helped…
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Association Conference Becomes Center Stage for Drug-Price Debate
At the American Society of Clinical Oncology’s annual meeting last week, a prominent doctor called out drug makers…
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DC Health Exchange Causing Headaches for Associations
Small businesses in the District are concerned with the technological flaws and potential cost of the city’s small-business…
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“Value-Based” Medicare Reimbursement Plan Wins Broad Support
A plan by the Obama Administration to tie Medicare reimbursements to value-based procedures, rather than higher volumes of…
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Pharmacists: The Missing Link to More Cost-Effective Healthcare?
A new report from the National Governors Association argues that states could help their residents' healthcare dollars go…
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AdvocacyArticleOver 5 years old
Congress Takes Fresh Stab at Affordable Care Act’s 30-Hour Rule
A rollback of one of the more controversial requirements of the Affordable Care Act was one of the…
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Obama Administration Says No to “Skinny” Healthcare Plans
Believing that healthcare plans that fail to cover inpatient hospital stays are not in the spirit of the…
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Trade Groups Back Obamacare Rollback Bill En Masse
A Senate bill that would remove the Affordable Care Act's requirement to auto-enroll employees into a health insurance…
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Sovaldi: Insurance Group Balks at High-Priced Pharmaceuticals
The costly Sovaldi is extremely effective at treating hepatitis C, but a leading insurance group warns that the…
