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A Better Way to Shop for Health Insurance During Open Enrollment

Chris Meyer | Posted 01.21.2013 | Home
Read More: Healthy Living Health News, Consumers Union, Politics News, Health Care, Affordable Care Act, Health Care Reform, Health Insurance, Health Affairs, Consumer Reports, Home News
Chris Meyer

We know that health reform can be complicated and time consuming. Not everyone has the time to sit down and learn the details of the new law -- even if they wanted to. But we also know that it's critical for consumers to know what's available to them and to take advantage of the benefits.

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Rather Not Go Bankrupt When You Get Sick? Another Reason to Support Obamacare

Wendell Potter | Posted 11.17.2012 | Politics
Read More: Health Care Reform, Affordable Care Act, Medical Costs, Bankruptcy, Obamacare, Health Care, Consumer Reports, Health Affairs, Kaiser Family Foundation, Obamacare Premiums, Mitt Romney Health Care, Romneycare, Politics News
Wendell Potter

Politicians who are promising to repeal Obamacare won't find any evidence in the Kaiser Family Foundation's analysis of health insurance costs that the law has caused premiums to skyrocket, as many of those politicians have contended.

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Have America's Ballooning Health Care Costs Finally Turned A Corner?

AP | RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR | Posted 03.10.2012 | Business
Read More: Dental Care, White House, Video, Insurance, Health Care Spending, President Barack Obama, George Mason University, Medicare, Health Insurance, Economic Growth, Health Care, Health Affairs, Emory University, Republicans, Business News

WASHINGTON — Is health-care relief finally in sight? Health spending stabilized as a share of the nation's economy in 2010 after two back-to-bac...

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Childhood Obesity & Reauthorization of the Child Nutrition Act

Elizabeth Rigby | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Read More: Michelle Obama, Tom Vilsack, School Lunches, Texas, Obesity, National School Lunch Program, Usda, Health, Child Nutrition Act, Food Politics, Food, Houston Chronicle, Houston, Tom Vilsack Agriculture Secretary, Health Care, Child Obesity, Federal Food Policy, Health Affairs, Home News
Elizabeth Rigby

Op-ed cross-posted Houston Chronicle Rachel Kimbro & Elizabeth Rigby March 5, 2010 In a series of high-profile events over the past few weeks, firs...

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Replacing the Shouts of Recess with the Deliberations of Research

James S. Marks | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Prevention, Chronic Disease, Health, Health Care Reform, Diabetes, Health Care, Congressional Budget Office, Health Affairs, Politics News
James S. Marks

The CBO is a valuable resource for elected officials for measuring the economic value of legislation. But it doesn't automatically score what we as Americans value, especially our health.

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Fat Bucks

Megan Shank | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Weight Watchers, Groupe Danone, Children, Investment, Acupuncture, Shanghai, Nutrition, China, Obesity, Health Affairs, Ephedra, World News
Megan Shank

As China's diet and lifestyle habits change in sync with its newly achieved wealth, more than a quarter of China's adult population has become overweight or obese.

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