The World Health Organisation (Who) says the Philippine government needs to step up support for public healthcare as more slums spring up in the capital Manila.
Part of the problem is the country’s low level of spending on public healthcare, which is less than two per cent of its annual budget.
The government says it is working [...]
March 29 (Bloomberg) — Bloomberg’s Lizzie O’Leary reports on the costs companies plan to book related to the new health-care law.
Chief executive officers of AT&T Inc., Verizon Communications Inc., Caterpillar Inc. and Deere & Co. have been called by lawmakers to appear at a hearing April 21 to discuss the [...]
March 4 (Bloomberg) — David Cordani, chief executive officer of Cigna Corp., talks with Bloomberg’s Mark Crumpton and Lori Rothman about President Obama’s proposed overhaul of the U.S. health-care system.
Cordani says the plan is “light” on reducing costs. Cordani also discusses today’s meeting between health-insurer chief executive officers and Health [...]
March 4 (Bloomberg) — Linda Douglass, a White House spokeswoman for health care, talks with Bloombergs Mark Crumpton and Julie Hyman about how legislation overhauling the U.S. health-care system would address increases in health-insurance rates.
President Barack Obama and U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius met with executives of [...]
Feb. 23 (Bloomberg) — Karen Ignagni, president of Americas Health Insurance Plans, talks with Bloombergs Betty Liu and Peter Cook about the outlook for Presidents Barack Obama bipartisan summit on health care.
Ignagni also discusses the role of insurance premiums in the debate. (Source: Bloomberg)
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Feb. 25 (Bloomberg) — Herbert Pardes, chief executive officer at New York Presbyterian Hospital, talks about medical malpractice claims and health-care overhaul legislation. (This is an excerpt of the full interview. Source: Bloomberg)
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Feb. 19 (Bloomberg) — Bradley Fluegel, executive vice president for strategy at WellPoint Inc., talks with Bloomberg’s Peter Cook about his company’s proposed health-insurance premium increase and the outlook for an overhaul of the U.S. health-care system.
Wellpoint, the biggest U.S. health insurer by enrollment, has been summoned to provide congressional [...]
While Iran works hard to improve healthcare, new sanctions imposed by the West could stand in the way.
Al Jazeera’s Alireza Ronaghi reports on how these sanctions could prevent treatment for many Iranians.
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