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In the Battle of Britain in WW2, the Royal Air Force (RAF) heroically repelled a foreign invasion of the UK.
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I love my dog a lot and I guess this is a good thing but human health insurance is far more important in my book and I hope this bill didnt take up too much administrative time for the Legislature to hash over. 
With some policies they have to deal with pre-existing conditions too, depending on age and when the dog or cat is enrolled.
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The hospital agreed to the payment without admitting any guilt or wrong doing. The 
charges were in excess of what is considered normal inpatient fees. There are not additional details here.
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At my post Are computers in medicine narcotic? “Why did the National Programme for IT fail?” I observed that the healthcare IT mania/bubble is being driven in part by non-clinical hysterics who believe they will somehow “revolutionize” medicine with information technology tools that are barely able to show improvements at this point in time.
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Its been quite a year for Blue Cross and the news with the 39% increase they had originally planned. HHS called them back to Washington to look at their algorithms that justified the raise. 
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I am sure the judge was interpreting the law as it was written so the next step is it sounds like is an act of Congress unless the Department of Justice has other alternatives. As a nation we would be fools to have this remain on the books as the last year since stem cell research was reinstated look what we have seen and every other country is right on this band wagon. 
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Ugh.
I am so sick of hospitals and nursing homes allowing residents to suffer from pressure ulcers.
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I guess it was this system they purchased from Unisys that is causing the problem. I think we are experiencing a time when decisions are made, it is extremely 
important to have an IT person around with some hands on experience as otherwise sometimes promissory dates as to when items become effective can fail, like this one.
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As we predicted, it seems that the US Internal Revenue Service’s (IRS) increased reporting requirements for not-for-profit organizations are leading to more examples of the coziness now prevalent among the top leaders of such organizations. The latest entry in this new parade comes from a story in the Bradenton (Florida) Herald about a not-for-profit community health agency whose mission is to provide health care to the poor and disenfranchised:
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I certainly hope theres not more of these types of articles to write about but with the focus on profits and dollars today, I kind of have this feeling there will be more coming unfortunately. This is a non profit hospital that has come to blows with contracted insurance rates, something well known and discussed in the Boston area lately too. So it appears many patients will be having to make a change and at least those who are already inpatients wont be affected, and that was gracious on both sides here. In the comments some stated they were looking to change to Blue Cross and then in the news today we have this story: