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Patrick extols Romney's health care law Politico Patrick says Romney's law to provide universal health care is working 'brilliantly.' | AP Photo Close By POLITICO STAFF | 4/17/11 3:00 PM EDT Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney doesn't dwell on the health-care law enacted in Massachusetts when he was ... See all stories on this topic » Politico

Impoverished Afghans shouldering burden of health care Reuters By Rob Taylor KABUL (Reuters) - Afghanistan's government and foreign donors spend barely $10 a person on health, despite pointing to it as key to winning back support against a worsening insurgency that has dragged on for nearly a decade, ... See all stories on this topic »

BMI may not be telling the whole truth Los Angeles Times The measurement is used to determine weight health, which then helps determine susceptibility to certain diseases. But a number of experts caution that the tool is fairly imprecise and often wrong. The last census of Americans' BMI reckoned that a ... See all stories on this topic » Los Angeles Times

Swallowing poison for Europe's health Financial Times When the European Union and the International Monetary Fund rode to Greece's rescue 12 months ago with a three-year, €110bn aid programme, policymakers assumed that Athens would resume borrowing on capital markets in 2012. This assumption always had an ... See all stories on this topic »

Newsmakers Q&A: Health-care business is fluid Columbus Dispatch At the other end of the spectrum is Ohio State University's WC Benton, who has the exhausting - though certainly not boring - responsibility of teaching a relevant, up-to-the-minute course on the constantly moving target known as the business of health ... See all stories on this topic » Columbus Dispatch

Oklahoma health exchange issue bruised, not beaten Tulsa World Mary Fallin and legislative leaders announced Thursday that they are sending back a $54 million federal grant meant to fund a state health insurance exchange with a no-thank-you note attached. But it's too early to conclude that the health insurance ... See all stories on this topic »

Medicare Still Costly Despite Debates Proposing Cuts Financial Feed Still, the result would be rising health care costs for the elderly, 65 and above. Medicare covers hospital care and doctor visits and some extra policies for a price but the costly program is 13% of the federal budget. In 2010, $452 billion was ... See all stories on this topic » Financial Feed

House OKs bill to repeal health care funding Greenville Daily Reflector PREVENTIVE-CARE FUND: Voting 236 for and 183 against, the House on April 13 passed a bill (HR 1217) to repeal the health care law's Prevention and Public Health Fund, which will grant nearly $18 billion over eight years to states and communities for ... See all stories on this topic »

Seniors' sex lives are up — and so are STD rates Los Angeles Times Last month, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid office announced that it was looking into adding STD exams to the national health insurance program, which already pays for HIV screenings. Medicare also is weighing the benefits of paying for ... See all stories on this topic » Los Angeles Times

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