MedAssets to sell technology to NJ hospital system

Hospital software company MedAssets Inc. said Tuesday it signed an agreement to sell revenue billing and collection software and services to a New Jersey health care system.

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President Obama used a rare meeting on Capitol Hill on Sunday to urge Senate Democrats to consider the historic significance of revamping the nation's health care system as his legislation faced a crucial second week of debate.

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WASHINGTON — Handing President Obama a hard-fought victory, the House narrowly approved a sweeping overhaul of the nation's health care system on Saturday night, advancing legislation that Democrats said could stand as their defining social policy achievement.

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It's time to kill the most horrific mass murderers and family destroyers in America of the last decades-- health insurance companies.

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The conventional wisdom, here and around the country, is that the centerpiece of President Obama's domestic agenda — remaking the health care system to cut costs and cover the uninsured — is on life support and that only a political miracle could revive it.

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President Obama has called for a serious and reasoned debate about his plans to overhaul the health-care system. Any such debate must include the question of whether it is constitutional for the federal government to adopt and implement the president's proposals.

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France, UK, Singapore and the United States are compared in this simple table to aid understanding of their health systems.

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As a medical-school graduate doing her residency at several Tacoma hospitals, Stacie Sutton Beck is rotating through pediatrics, internal medicine, orthopedics and other departments for the training she needs to become a family doctor.

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from the article:

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The House of Representative may vote this week on its bill (America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009, H.R. 3200) to reform our dysfunctional health care system. Act NOW to keep state single-payer options in this important piece of health care reform legislation!

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Throughout his campaign for the White House, after his election victory, and as soon as he assumed office, President Obama made it clear that reforming the health care system would be at the top of his agenda.

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President Obama tried on Wednesday to rally public support for overhauling the nation's health care system and said for the first time that he would be willing to help pay for the plan by raising income taxes on families earning more than $1 million a year.

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According to Harris Decima Senior Vice-President Jeff Walker; "Perhaps contrary to impressions in the media, most Canadians believe that on balance our health care system works well, and is far superior to the US model of health treatment.

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Six months into his administration, President Obama is at a pivotal moment.

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The retail industry's largest trade group is rallying its members against the world's largest retailer, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., for supporting a federal mandate for employer-funded health insurance.

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Americans overwhelmingly support substantial changes to the health care system and are strongly behind one of the most contentious proposals Congress is considering, a government-run insurance plan to compete with private insurers, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News  …

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People from Toronto respond to a US advertising campaign about the Canadian health-care system

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All NHS staff who discuss their religion with patients face losing their jobs, it was revealed today. A Department of Health document warns talking about religion with patients could be considered harassment or intimidation. and

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Controversial editorial about the Canadian health care system and "organized medicine" from health policy consultant Steven Lewis. (Not the Stephen Lewis of the Stephen Lewis Foundation.)

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Oregon Woman Denied Cancer Treatment by Government, Offered Suicide Instead

Whenever I write an article about the dangers of universal health care, I get usual mantra from the socialist defenders of the plan. Two great examples taken from my Newsvine additions include:

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Ted Kennedy's Cancer Treatment Under Socialized Medicine

When it was revealed that Sen. Ted Kennedy's seizure was caused by a malignant brain tumor, I posted a short post on it, offering my prayers to him and his family. One of my readers asked an interesting question following that post. "Randy" wrote:

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Can US learn anything from rest of the world about how to run a health care systme?

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PUBLIC PATIENTS can be waiting up to a year and a half for crucial tests to determine if they are suffering from conditions such as bowel cancer, according to new figures. Eithne Donnellan , Health Correspondent, reports.

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - France, Japan and Australia rated best and the United States worst in new rankings focusing on preventable deaths due to treatable conditions in 19 leading industrialized nations, researchers said on Tuesday.If the U.S.

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Campaigning in New Hampshire one day before the first-in-the-nation primary, Senator Hillary Clinton got emotional and had tears in her eyes as she spoke with voters about how hard it is to balance a busy campaign life and her passion for the country's future.

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GRINNELL, Iowa, Oct.

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