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ECONOMY Tue Mar 10, 2009 @ 9:00am neoform

biz.yahoo.com -- HELENA, Mont. (AP) -- Republicans and Democrats brokered a House budget deal Monday that calls for full funding of the children's health insurance initiative that was approved last fall by voters -- and promises quick action on a normally contentious issu.. Read More

ECONOMY Fri Mar 6, 2009 @ 3:02pm neoform

biz.yahoo.com -- NEW YORK (AP) -- A group of Goldman Sachs analysts cut their price targets on a number of health care stocks Friday as the market weakens further, and they placed Quest Diagnostics Inc. on a list of stocks most likely to decline. Shares of Quest, a Madis.. Read More

ECONOMY Tue Mar 3, 2009 @ 12:01pm neoform

biz.yahoo.com -- TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) -- Gov. Kathleen Sebelius' nomination as U.S. secretary of health and human services came Monday with work on the next state budget far from finished and a dispute brewing over how Kansas can best avoid a deficit. Some legislators viewe.. Read More

ECONOMY Tue Mar 3, 2009 @ 12:00pm neoform

biz.yahoo.com -- HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell's proposed assessment on health insurers faces long odds in the state Senate, a key lawmaker told a top Rendell aide. Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Jake Corman, R-Centre, said some insurers.. Read More

ECONOMY Fri Feb 27, 2009 @ 9:00am neoform

biz.yahoo.com -- WASHINGTON (AP) -- Certain key words pop up repeatedly in President Barack Obama's initial budget proposal and they are telling: "new," "billion," "health," "increase," and "million." He used versions of those words more than one thousand times in just 13.. Read More

ECONOMY Thu Feb 26, 2009 @ 6:01pm neoform

biz.yahoo.com -- NEW YORK (AP) -- Health insurers and drug companies, some of the better performers on Wall Street lately, led the market lower Thursday after the White House proposed cutting payments to private insurance plans. The Obama administration's $3.55 trillion.. Read More

ECONOMY Wed Feb 25, 2009 @ 6:01pm neoform

biz.yahoo.com -- NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--In the course of routine surveillance, Fitch Ratings affirms the Cherokee Nation, Oklahoma's $23.6 million health care system bonds, series 2006 at 'BBB-'. The bonds are secured by a gross lien on third party health system reven.. Read More

ECONOMY Mon Feb 23, 2009 @ 3:02pm neoform

biz.yahoo.com -- BOSTON (AP) -- Massachusetts' pioneering health care system, which requires nearly everyone to carry insurance or face fines, is about to be put to the test by the bad U.S. economy. Unemployment in the state has climbed over the past three years from aro.. Read More

ECONOMY Sat Feb 14, 2009 @ 9:00am neoform

biz.yahoo.com -- WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--“Enacting health IT legislation has been the top health care policy priority for Business Roundtable for the past five years. We are proud to have worked diligently with Senators Kennedy, Hatch, Clinton and Enzi to develop b.. Read More

ECONOMY Thu Jan 29, 2009 @ 3:01pm neoform

biz.yahoo.com -- CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) -- Democrats in control of the Nevada Legislature pledged Thursday to reject the deep cuts in education and health care programs included in what they termed a "shortsighted" budget plan drafted "in a back room" by Republican Gov. J.. Read More

ECONOMY Tue Jan 27, 2009 @ 9:01am neoform

biz.yahoo.com -- WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republican lawmakers tried to slow momentum for expanding a children's health insurance program Monday by arguing that a bill in the Senate would draw about 2.4 million children away from private insurance into government-sponsored cove.. Read More

ECONOMY Mon Jan 19, 2009 @ 12:01pm neoform

biz.yahoo.com -- DUBLIN, Ireland--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Research and Markets(http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/357beb/the_20092014_worl) has announced the addition of the "The 2009-2014 World Outlook for Accident and Health Insurance" report to their offering. What i.. Read More

ECONOMY Tue Dec 2, 2008 @ 3:01pm neoform

biz.yahoo.com -- RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Research Triangle Environmental Health Collaborative (The Collaborative) held its inaugural Environmental Health Summit on November 10-11 assembling 150 experts to discuss “Pharmaceuticals in Water: Wha.. Read More

ECONOMY Tue Nov 11, 2008 @ 3:03pm neoform

biz.yahoo.com -- INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- Managed care stocks took a steeper drop than broader market indexes Tuesday on a gloomy day for Wall Street. The largest health insurers saw their stock fall anywhere from nearly 4 percent to more than 7 percent during afternoon trad.. Read More

ECONOMY Wed Nov 5, 2008 @ 6:01pm neoform

biz.yahoo.com -- RICHMOND, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Owens & Minor (NYSE: OMI - News) will present to investors at the upcoming 2008 Credit Suisse Health Care Conference in Phoenix, Arizona, on Thursday, November 13, 2008, at 10:00 a.m. Mountain Time. The event will be webcas.. Read More

ECONOMY Sat Nov 1, 2008 @ 3:00pm neoform

biz.yahoo.com -- WASHINGTON (AP) -- With the global economy at risk of a deep recession, many battered areas of the economy stand to suffer more damage in coming months. Other industries, though, seem poised to withstand even a severe downturn. The health care sector sho.. Read More

ECONOMY Fri Oct 17, 2008 @ 6:00pm neoform

biz.yahoo.com -- WASHINGTON (AP) -- Medicaid's growing strain on federal and state budgets is unlikely to abate over the coming decade as the cost of providing health care to the poor is expected to increase 7.9 percent annually, government actuaries reported Friday. Eac.. Read More

ECONOMY Mon Oct 13, 2008 @ 3:01pm neoform

biz.yahoo.com -- MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH - News) today announced its 2009 portfolio of Medicare products offering seniors improved health care and opportunities for disease prevention, coupled with strong financial savings for seniors o.. Read More

ECONOMY Wed Oct 8, 2008 @ 12:01pm neoform

biz.yahoo.com -- BLOOMFIELD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Faced with high gasoline prices, rising food costs, a roller-coaster stock market and rising unemployment, most Americans (90 percent) say they’re worried about the economy. No big surprise there, but is the uncertain.. Read More

ECONOMY Tue Oct 7, 2008 @ 6:00pm neoform

biz.yahoo.com -- BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- The cuts needed to balance the budget in the state's Medicaid program will be deeper if lawmakers continue to delay voting on how to fill the $81 million gap, the state's health care secretary said Tuesday. Alan Levine, head of t.. Read More