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Consumers saved nearly $1.5 billion in 2011 as a result of rules in President Obama's healthcare law that limit what insurance companies can spend on expenses unrelated to medical care, including profit, a new analysis shows. Healthcare law will have new California Legislature scramblingWhen state lawmakers are sworn in Monday for the new legislative session, they will have little time to enjoy the pomp and circumstance. California hospitals review disaster plans in the wake of SandyTwo nurses examined an earthquake victim writhing in pain inside a yellow triage tent recently on the lawn of Redlands Community Hospital. Keeping California's kids healthyIn a bid to cut the state's healthcare bills, the Brown administration will begin shuttering the Healthy Families insurance program for low-income children on Jan. 1. More than 850,000 kids will be shifted over the course of the year into HMOs that... Dislodging ObamacareRepublicans believed a Mitt Romney win would seal Obamacare's fate. Democrats — or rather, the lonely two-fifths of Americans who support the president's beleaguered healthcare law — believed an Obama win would secure its future. Both... |
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Ho ho healthful holiday giftsIt's tricky, deciding to give someone a present to improve them in some way, but here are some for accomplished or budding yogis, serious... Prime Healthcare Services fined $95,000 in privacy caseState officials have fined hospital chain Prime Healthcare Services Inc. $95,000 for violating patient confidentiality by sharing a woman'... Dr. Joseph Murray dies at 93; Nobel winner performed first kidney transplantSince ancient times, surgeons have dreamed of transplanting healthy organs into patients disabled by disease and injury, but the human body'... UCLA Medical Center gets failing grade on patient safetyA national report card on patient safety gave a failing grade to Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, one of the country's most prestigious... 5 Questions: Julie Bowen talks about allergies in her own 'Modern Family'Actress Julie Bowen of "Modern Family" doesn't want other parents to go through what she and her husband did when their toddler... Try This: Stretch with the crab reachYou might not think of the crab as nature's most graceful creature, but if you mimic its stance when you stretch, you'll open up the tight... FDA halts operations of organic peanut butter processor SunlandThe Food and Drug Administration has halted operations of the country's largest organic peanut butter processor, cracking down on salmonella... Doctors urged to prescribe teens Plan B before they have sexDoctors should give underage teenagers prescriptions for emergency contraceptives like Plan B before they start having sex instead of... |
