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Health Insurers Offer to Accept All Applicants, on Condition (New York Times)
The health insurance industry said it would support a plan requiring insurers to accept all customers, but asked that Congress require all Americans to have coverage in return.
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Zimbabwe health service in 'state of collapse,' doctors say (CNN)
Zimbabwe's health system, once the envy of many African nations, is "in a state of collapse" -- with many hospitals either completely shut down or unable to admit new patients, a leading doctors' group said Thursday.
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Daschle to take health post, another familiar face (AP via Yahoo! News)
Barack Obama is enlisting former Senate leader Tom Daschle as his health secretary, embracing a third Washington insider in the early stages of Cabinet-building by the president-elect who promised change. Hillary Rodham Clinton, the capital's most famous woman for two decades, seemed ever more likely to be his secretary of state.
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Moody's reports question health of health-care industry (Chicago Tribune)
Service predicts fewer elective procedures, credit troubles for hospitals The health-care industry, often deemed recession-proof, may not be so immune to the economic downturn, according to a parade of recent reports from Moody's Investors Service .
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Politician steps down from health (BBC News)
A Guernsey deputy says resigning from the health department will allow him to express his views more freely.
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Health Mandate Builds Support As Insurers Endorse Approach (Investor's Business Daily via Yahoo! News)
Political momentum is growing to make everyone buy health insurance -- or else.
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Big Pharma seeks to shape U.S. health plan (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Major drug makers want their voices heard as U.S. Democrats, traditionally critics of the industry, start crafting plans to expand health insurance coverage and cut the escalating costs of care.
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Daschle Could Be a Boost to Obama's Health Care Agenda (Time Magazine)
As Obama's reported pick for Secretary of Health and Human Services, the former South Dakota senator returns to an issue that has long been his passion
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Insurers make pitch for health coverage mandate (AP via Yahoo! News)
The health insurance industry said Wednesday it will support a national health care overhaul that requires them to accept all customers, regardless of pre-existing medical conditions — but in return it wants lawmakers to mandate that everyone buy coverage.
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Obama Picks Daschle as Next Health Secretary (Washington Post)
Transition team sources say former Democratic Senate leader from South Dakota is president-elect's choice to head Health and Human Services.
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