Vita Advisors

New York Times

Vita Advisors — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:09:03 +0000

At the heart of Obama’s drive to rein in health costs is a proposal for federal review and regulation of health insurance premiums, with a new agency empowered to block excessive rate increases.

EBRI

Vita Advisors — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:07:54 +0000

EBRI: The percentage of workers very confident about having enough money for a comfortable retirement has stabilized at 16 percent

Bloomberg

Vita Advisors — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:06:15 +0000

U.S. workers are more confident about having enough savings for retirement even after the percentage of savers declined, according to the Employee Benefit Research Institute.

Wall Street Journal

Vita Advisors — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:04:58 +0000

Lawmakers working to craft a new comprehensive immigration bill have settled on a way to prevent employers from hiring illegal immigrants: a national biometric identification card all American workers would eventually be required to obtain

Wall Street Journal

Vita Advisors — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:02:05 +0000

The number of cosmetic-surgery procedures in the U.S. sagged for the second year in a row in 2009, according to an annual survey released Tuesday by a plastic surgeons’ association

New York Times

Vita Advisors — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:00:58 +0000

The Senate Finance Committee has opened an investigation into patient deaths and allegations of substandard treatment at specialty medical centers that treat chronically ill patients

Washington Post

Vita Advisors — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:59:12 +0000

Prospects are good for resolving a dispute over abortion that has led some House Democrats to threaten to withhold support of health care overhaul, a key Michigan Democrat said Monday

Washington Post

Vita Advisors — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:56:32 +0000

In the 1980s hospital administrators were required to bundle charges into DRGs – physician charges, however, are paid separately for each visit they make to a hospital patient

Wall Street Journal

Vita Advisors — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:52:01 +0000

Doctors and hospitals are getting a new test that many think will help fight ovarian cancer, one of the deadliest cancers, by helping them to more quickly distinguish cancerous from benign growths.

Bloomberg

Vita Advisors — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:50:23 +0000

Obama told an audience outside Philadelphia yesterday that insurers have calculated that higher premiums can more than make up for the loss of customers who can’t afford coverage