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Managed Care May 2007	Managed Care Outlook Milder health care spending cycle seen.
Managed Care April 2005	Medicare Modernization Act to Increase Public Sector Spending Nearly 50 Percent While the burden on the public sector to supply health care benefits to Medicare and Medicaid enrollees will increase, on the private side, a reevaluation of current forms of health insurance coverage may take place as growth in premiums continues to outpace growth in compensation.
Managed Care January 2005	Health Care Inflation Takes a Breather The good news for payers: Health care spending is estimated to have grown 7.8% in 2003, a slowdown from the 9.3% growth seen in 2002.
Fast Company December 2004 Lucas Conley	No Wonder the Economy Is Dragging! The price of professionalism: Recent estimates from analysts, consultants, trade groups, and psychics of costs facing businesses (an incomplete list). The United States' gross domestic product is $11.66 trillion.
Managed Care May 2004	Treasury Dept. Issues Rules Governing HSAs New Federal guidelines say that health savings accounts may be used to cover some preventive services and prescription drugs.
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Reason November 2003 Ronald Bailey	Envy Your Kids In less than a lifetime, the $10.7 trillion U.S. economy could grow more than 12-fold, to $128.6 trillion by 2077, according to a new report issued by the nonpartisan Employment Policy Foundation. Real U.S. per capita personal income could rise fivefold, from $31,384 today to $155,632 in 2077.
Managed Care December 2004	Kaiser Official Defends Decision To Launch HSAs In what appears to be a wrenching decision, Kaiser Permanente is gearing up to begin offering health savings accounts.
Managed Care March 2002 Michael Levin-Epstein	Illinois's Medicare Drug Program Called 1st Stab at National Reform The Illinois demonstration program gives the state permission to use federal and state Medicaid dollars to provide prescription drug coverage for 365,000 low-income, elderly Medicare beneficiaries...
Managed Care April 2002	More Than Just 'Chipping' Away at Problem of Uninsured Children CHIP (the Children's Health Insurance Program) continues to grow by leaps and bounds. About 4.6 million children in the U.S. received coverage through CHIP in fiscal year 2001. That's an increase of 38 percent from fiscal year 2000...
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Financial Planning April 1, 2010 Donald Jay Korn	Medicare: Change is Coming This is a great time to get together with clients over 65 who will be affected by health care changes and go over their Medicare coverage. At the same time, you can see what other areas of financial planning are on their mind.
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Managed Care March 2006	Prescription Drug Cost Increase Lowest Since 1994 A slowdown on spending for prescription drugs is credited for leading the slowing in health care costs overall, according to a recent study.
Registered Rep. March 1, 2006 Janet Arrowood	The Medicare and Medicaid Minefield As the population ages and life expectancy rises, so does the likelihood that more people will be needing long-term care and your financial advisory clients should know the hard facts about paying for it, because the costs can be staggering.
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Managed Care September 2004	Bush Officials Seek Bounce From Medicare Reform Law Unfortunately for Bush, a recent survey says that most Medicare recipients who plan to let this issue influence their vote plan to cast those votes for Sen. John Kerry.
Managed Care October 2005 Martin Sipkoff	The Lure of Tax Reform Politicians on both sides of the aisle are considering tax reforms as a way of fixing the health care system. What might it mean for health plans?
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Managed Care December 2006 MargaretAnn Cross	Confronting The Medicare Cost Shift Plans are increasingly concerned about the degree to which providers overcharge them to make up for losses from government programs.
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Reason November 2004 Ronald Bailey	Mandatory Health Insurance Now! It will save private medicine in the U.S. -- and spur medical innovation.
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