Screening for cancer missing the mark
Baltimore Sun (blog)
The report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Cancer Institute showed breast cancer screening rates were 72.4 percent, below the 81 percent target set in a national health plan called Healthy People 2020.
Cancer Screening Falls Short, CDC SaysMedPage Today
Health screenings for preventative careLiberty Vindicator

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Pro-Gingrich super PAC blames 'Romneycare' for spiraling health care costs
PolitiFact
Massachusetts paid for the plan with some new state spending, but also with help from the federal government. In part because the Massachusetts plan is so similar to the national plan, health policy analysts have tracked the outcomes there closely and …
Guest commentary: Obama's mission — It's all politicsDetroit Free Press
Week In The News: The State Of The Union, The GOP Race, SEAL Team 6WBUR
Obama rarely mentions health care in State of the UnionMedill Reports: Chicago
FactCheck.org
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Obama administration issues major rewrite of national forest rules
Washington Post
“Restoration is the philosophy, with a focus on forest health and our water,” Vilsack told reporters in a conference call, adding that the rules require that planning decisions be “driven by sound science.” The debate over how best to manage forests …
Obama administration releases new national forest management rulesThe Missoulian
New Forest Planning Rule Seeks to Restore the Nation's Forests through Science …Southeast AgNet

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Avalere: Benchmark Plan Candidates Cover Many Drugs
LifeHealthPro
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Expats Face Confusing New Law to Buy National Health Insurance in Turkey
New York Times (blog)
Confused Americans and Britons flooded their consulates in Istanbul with phone calls and e-mails, struggling to learn how to register, or whether they might be exempt if already covered by their home country's national health plan or a private insurer.
Change is in the air: new mandatory health insurance for foreignersToday’s Zaman

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Mass. Health Plan Works, but Cost Still an Issue
MedPage Today
The law has become a blueprint for the national healthcare reform passed in 2010. Long's findings are based on 2010 data collected from a random telephone survey of 3000 nonelderly adults that asked questions about insurance status, characteristics of …
Massachusetts Miracle: Romney's Health Care Reform Plan WorksGoozNew
Romneycare Helps With Coverage, Not Costs: StudyInternational Business Times

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Early induced pregnancies are costing your health plan
Employee Benefit News
Premature birth costs society more than $26 billion a year and takes a high toll on families, though exact costs for a health plan are unknown. When asked about the cost, President of the National Business Group on Health Helen Darling says "we don't …

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'Scary' health plan set to be national blueprint
Staffordshire Newsletter
A “SCARY” major overhaul of health and social care in Staffordshire is to be a blueprint for other authorities. The shake-up, which will see dozens of NHS and county council organisations merging, has been backed in Parliament.

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National Alzheimer's Plan a call for action – before it's too late
GrossePointeToday.com
This is what the National Alzheimer's Plan, released in draft form earlier this month by the Department of Health and Human Services, proposes to do: Give us a future without fear of the future. By 2025, we could have effective treatment and definitive …
National Alzheimers official visits PrincetonLaSalle News Tribune
Advocates seek to increase profile of Alzheimer's diseaseQuincy Journal
Alzheimer's families understand the needThe Gazette: Eastern Iowa Breaking News and Headlines (blog)

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Premiers to create national health plan without federal government
Vancouver Sun
Canada's premiers are forming a national plan for health-care innovation, without the federal government. A day after the prime minister told the provinces it was their responsibility to reform the system, and that there was no more money for either …
Canadian premiers reject Flaherty's health planCTV.ca
Polls Shows Canadians Apprehensive over Federal Health PlansThe Mark
Labour leaders call on premiers to unite and defend health careToronto Star
CBC.ca
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