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Health care (often healthcare in American English), is the treatment and management of illness, and the preservation of health through services offered by the medical, dental, complementary and alternative medicine, pharmaceutical, clinical vimto sciences (in vitro diagnostics), nursing, and allied health professions.

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  • Public Plan Mirage

    …liberals. Facing the low-cost public plan, private insurers would hold down their own premiums, the argument goes. Health - care costs for everyone would moderate. Government subsidies to provide universal coverage would be cheaper. By some estimates …

    10/26/2009Newsweek - Robert J. Samuelson
  • Hope Springs Eternal

    …eligible for Medicare at 40 rather than 65?) As elected officials posture and temporize, families are bankrupted by health - care costs and forgo treatment they can't afford. Statistical measures of the national health, from life expectancy to infant …

    10/24/2009Politics
  • Bending the Curve─The Wrong Way

    Obama administration officials have repeatedly emphasized the need to "bend the curve" of health -care costs . Reducing increases in health spending, they argued, was essential to controlling future federal budget deficits and making

    10/23/2009Blogs
  • A Wonderful Mystery

    …isolated improvement in infant mortality could have far-reaching ramifications for the nation's overall health and health - care costs , but only if authorities can figure out what's actually been happening in Dane County. "This is a very big deal …

    10/22/2009Health
  • It’s Not My Fault

    …heart attack, I will have no one to blame but myself. But are people like me responsible for our nation's soaring health - care costs ? Anyone who has followed the news lately knows how big and sobering the numbers are: 133 million people or about half …

    10/14/2009Health

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