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Increase in health care costs slows
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Half of employers see rise under 10%

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We can end the health-care crisis

A new report outlines ways to curb spiraling costs, extend coverage

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Health Leaders Seek Consensus Over Uninsured

At a time when Congress has been torn by partisan battles, 24 ideologically disparate leaders representing the health care industry, corporations and unions, and conservative and liberal groups have been meeting secretly for months to seek a consensus on proposals to provide coverage for the growing number of people with no health insurance.

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Congress must move now on health care reforms
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The focus last week was on the nation's uninsured - the estimated 45 million Americans who do not have health insurance. In New York there were rallies to mark "Cover the Uninsured Week." In the Twin Cities, Minnesota hospitals agreed to give discounts to the uninsured - or a least not to charge them more than insured people and in Milwaukee the medical society there was setting up a program to get doctors to volunteer to treat the uninsured.

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Momentum building to end health care disparities

Doctors are talking with colleagues and reading journal articles for advice on how to ensure that all patients get equal care.

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States and Employers Duel Over Health Care

The relentless rise in health care costs is causing states and businesses to fight over whose job it is to insure workers. And nearly two dozen states, struggling with the growing burden of providing public assistance to people with jobs but no insurance, are looking to shift more of the financial burden onto the workers' employers.

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Health Care: The Stealth Revolution

Lost in the fray of the public debate over Terri Schiavo, steroids and Social Security, a political revolution may be quietly taking hold this year, far away from the halls of Capitol Hill.

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Health care bites into workers' wallets

The nation's tab for health care -- already the highest per person in the industrialized world -- could hit $3.6 trillion by 2014, or nearly 19 percent of the entire U.S. economy, up from 15.4 percent now, a sobering government projection says.

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Health care conscience bill blasted at hearing
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A tough Conscience Protection Act, promoted by abortion foes as the most comprehensive in the nation, ran into sharp criticism today at an Assembly hearing.

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HealthWatch: The Cost of Care

As Terri Schiavo lies dying in a hospice in Florida, Barbara Howe is kept alive in a Massachusetts hospital thanks to ventilator and feeding tube.

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