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Everyone knows that the U.S. health care system is inefficient. This hurts both the nation and the employers that offer coverage to their workers. But a new study by researchers at Cornell University and the University of Toronto claims that the average U.S. physician pays $61,000 more in administrative costs per year than their Canadian [...]
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At RIMS 2011 Vancouver a few weeks ago, I got the chance to speak with Wells Fargo Insurance Services President and CEO Neal Aton to discuss the current state of the market and his company’s expansion over the past decade, something accelerated by the Wachovia merger at the end of 2008. Much like most other insurance executives [...]
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Russia is losing millions of people a year, and not through emigration. In fact, many people are immigrating to the country, but even so, a United Nations report released this week claimed that Russia’s population has fallen by 6.6 million since 1993, and by 2025 the country could lose a another 11 million people. The biggest [...]
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1. When addressing med mal reform, Obama has said he will not consider capping malpractice awards as a measure of reducing the cost of health care. What stands to be gained or lost by capping malpractice awards insofar as its effect on the availability and quality of health care? Many people believe that a cap [...]
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