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BY PAT FERRIER http://www.coloradoan.com Local doctors who treat Medicare patients have found themselves in the middle of a federal fight that could strain their budgets and make it more difficult to treat older patients. At issue is a two-week delay in Medicare payments ordered by the Bush Administration that went into effect Tuesday. During the […]

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http://www.reuters.com WASHINGTON (Reuters) – About 20 percent of the U.S. population delayed or were unable to get access to medical care when they needed it in 2007, up from 14 percent four years earlier, a study released on Thursday found. About 9.5 million more people went without medical care in 2007, compared with 2003, the […]

MARK SCOLFORO (AP) http://www.philly.com HARRISBURG, Pa. – An agency that monitors the cost and quality of Pennsylvania’s health care system may be forced to close its doors as a casualty of a wider political battle over covering the uninsured. The Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council is caught in the middle of a dispute over […]

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