Health Care

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  • How Minute Clinics Are Revolutionizing Health Care

    By Max Nisen, Business Insider

    As more retail pharmacies launch in-store clinics, their potential to disrupt the health care system grows. These clinics provide the basic care that most people need at a fraction of the cost.

  • Unhealthy Medicaid Patients Likely to Stay That Way

    By Christine Vestal, Pew Center on the States

    A hallmark of President Obama’s health law is that it requires insurers to cover early detection and disease prevention services at no cost to the patient. The new preventive care guidelines are...

  • Hospital Safety Alert: Interns As Shift Workers

    By Sandra G Boodman, Kaiser Health News

    Flavio Casoy vividly remembers one of his scariest moments as an intern: On duty at a San Francisco hospital for nearly 29 hours, he was at the bedside of a very sick patient when the man's oxygen...

  • Obama’s Imperial Presidency Strikes Again

    By Edward Morrissey

    One month ago, Democratic Party strategists told Politico that the Affordable Care Act (ACA), otherwise known as Obamacare, would prove to be a political winner for Democratic incumbents. “In 2010,...

  • New Winners and Losers in the Obamacare Delay

    By David Francis and Eric Pianin and Josh Boak

    The Obama administration confirmed this week what many have suspected for months: that the employer mandate in the Affordable Healthcare Act is not ready for prime time.