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President Barack Obama says America can no longer live with the status quo when it comes to healthcare.

A new issue brief from the Economic Policy Institute claims that small business will be one of the primary beneficiaries of the healthcare reform plan passed by the House.

Nurses are putting in more hours at work than at this time last year but expect to return to pre-recession work levels once the economy rebounds, according to a recent survey.

Washington residents have saved more than $2.6 million on prescription medications since the launch of the free statewide prescription assistance program.

The state of New York and New York City have agreed to pay $540 million to settle allegations that they knowingly submitted, or caused submission of, false claims for reimbursement for school-based healthcare services provided to Medicaid-eligible children from 1990 to 2001.

Because Pennsylvania has not yet passed a state budget, legislative leaders are pushing many bills to the side. But advocates of SB 742, the Pennsylvania Hospital Patient Protection Act of 2009, are still pressing for hearings before September.

The non-profit California HealthCare Foundation has issued three new reports addressing the impact of overcrowding in California's emergency rooms.

U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis has announced a $220 million competition to fund projects that prepare workers for careers in healthcare and other high-growth industries.

If the nation’s top health insurers would fix their ailing claims processes, physicians could focus more on patients and the system could save as much as $200 billion a year, American Medical Association officials say.

The American Medical Association says more healing is needed before it can pronounce healthcare's claims process cured. A key problem is inconsistency, highlighting the need for standardization, the AMA says.