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Quebec is projected to spend the least on health care per capita of any province or territory for the sixth year in a row, a national study reveals.
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The amount the NHS spends on medicines will be cut by Â£1.8 billion over the next five years after drugs companies agreed to reduce their prices.
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Legislative leaders approved $591 million in state spending Monday to restore health care for the needy but let deep cutbacks in the Children&#39;s Health Insurance Program stand.
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This week's votes on a children's health program go to a key issue in next year's elections: How much should the government spend to insure families with modest but not poverty-level incomes?
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Privately insured, low-income workers with chronic medical conditions such as diabetes and asthma are being financially squeezed as employers shift the burden of higher health care costs to employees, a new study found.    The number of such individuals spending more than 5 percent of their income on out-of-pocket medical costs soared 48 percent to 2.2 million people from 2001 to 2003, according to a study released Thursday by the Center for Health System Change...
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Every year, without fail, spending for services covered by private health insurance increases. Sometimes health care spending grows slowly, as it did in the mid-1990s during the managed-care boom.
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Employers can reduce their health insurance expenses for retired workers once they turn 65 and qualify for Medicare, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has affirmed.
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CHRIS CLARK: There&#39;s no end in sight to the soaring tally of health funding promises in the election campaign. In the latest, Mark Latham has come up with a $1 billion dollar parcel for hospitals, and the signs are there&#39;s more to come.
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In the past four years, Americans have spent a growing portion of their paychecks on health care and for the most part gotten less for their money, according to government figures and several independent studies.
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Facts and figures on political action committee spending in the presidential race since Labor Day:
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Spending on prescription drugs rose briskly in 2006 as the Medicare drug benefit kicked in and the government's share of expenditures for medicines surged, according to a federal study to be released today. Overall, health-care spending in the United States continued its climb, rising 6.7 percent...
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WASHINGTON -- The elderly got a little break on the cost of medicine in the second quarter of the year.
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Despite exploding costs, most Americans got sizable life-extending bang for their medical bucks over recent decades, says one of the most sweeping studies ever of health-care value.
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THE REGION Study: Uninsured pay highest drug prices
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WASHINGTON -- Employers can reduce their health insurance expenses for retired workers once they turn 65 and qualify for Medicare, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has affirmed.
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With health care the top domestic issue among voters as the nation heads into the 2008 elections, the Partnership to Fight Chronic Disease asked presidential candidates Tuesday to focus on ways to prevent, treat and manage chronic diseases that account for more than 75 cents of every dollar spent on health care.
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Take a stand against the high costs of health care.