Health savings account numbers still low
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The number of U.S. workers with   health-savings accounts grew this year but these accounts and   their associated insurance plans are far from being widely   embraced, researchers concluded in a study released on Tuesday.
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Hospital waiting lists are at their lowest level since the 1980s, the NHS chief executive is expected to announce. What is your experience?
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Little progress has been made in cracking down on benefit fraud and error, a spending watchdog has said.
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A proposed sweeping consolidation of state health and welfare agencies will have limited impact as long as the programs they oversee remain chronically underfinanced and bafflingly complicated
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Jane Fumich and her team visit Cleveland's churches, public housing holiday parties and ward club meetings trying to give away the government's money &#151; without much success. A year after the Medicare overhaul became law, the Bush administration is struggling to get the poor signed up for a drug discount card that comes with &#36;1,200 in aid between now and 2006.
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The number of mortgage approvals at UK banks is now steady, but remains near a record low, bankers say.
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NEW YORK - Health care costs continued to surge this year as family premiums in employer-sponsored plans jumped 11.2 percent, the fourth year of double-digit growth, according to a new study.    The cumulative effect of rising health care costs is taking a toll on workers: There are at least 5 million fewer jobs providing health insurance in 2004 than there were in 2001, according to the survey of 3,017 companies by the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Health Research and Educational Trust...
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Patients in accident and emergency units are still failing to treat people quickly enough, according to the latest figures.
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Democrats have made it clear: They don't support recommendations from President Bush that would shave an estimated $77 billion from government health programs for seniors and the poor. But Bush doesn't need lawmakers' support for some of the changes that he wants to make to Medicare and Medicaid. He could get about $23 billion in savings over the next five years by issuing new federal regulations.
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Health insurance premiums for federal employees will increase by an average of 1.8 percent next year, the lowest annual increase in the government's employee program since 1997.
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Pharmacists and insurance counselors say many of the 600,000 beneficiaries will not discover the change in their status until they show up at pharmacies next month.
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Health aides in Maryland's largest Medicaid home care program often end up earning less than the federal minimum wage.
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For the second year in a row, the number of New Yorkers who died dipped to a historic low - fewer than 60,000. &quot;The fact that our population is aging and we&#39;re still having fewer deaths
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Savings bonds aren't paying what they used to.
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The very few patients who repeatedly require intensive care for their illnesses are responsible for a sizable chunk of the money used for this purpose, a new study finds.
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A new study presents stark evidence that high medical payments do not buy high-quality patient care.