| Above the Fold |
January 31, 2012 |
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| Today's News |
| Obama seeks small-business investments, tax breaks |
| By Jim Kuhnhenn |
| President Barack Obama says he wants Congress to act quickly on bipartisan legislation that would extend tax breaks for small business and to help startup businesses raise money. He says he would sign the legislation "right away."...Read more |
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| Aetna plans to beef up primary care pay |
| By AP staff |
| Health insurer Aetna Inc. plans to give some primary care doctors an extra monthly payment to help them manage care better under a concept that aims to improve patient health and cut down on expensive hospital stays or emergency room visits...Read more |
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| Rollovers drive increase in IRA market share |
| By Danielle Andrus |
| Cerulli Associates announced that total assets in the U.S. retirement market, including public and private defined-contribution, defined-benefit and individual retirement account markets, increased 9.6% in 2010 to $15.8 trillion...Read more |
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| The Pulse |
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| The paperless insurance application is here |
| By Rich White |
| For years, the life insurance industry has dreamed of a "paperless application" that agents could fill out and submit electronically in the field, without carrying stacks of hard copy documents...Read more |
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| Overheard on BenefitsPro |
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 As a physician who grew up professionally in a tightly managed care organization, the staff model HMO, where I toiled first as a family physician and ,then, as a medical director I am skeptical of ACOs. At least I don't think they will reduce costs.
-- James Chaillet, MD, ACOs: The fix for a fragmented system?
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