News - February, 2011

• Study Finds Rising Prevalence of Defensive Medicine - posted 02/23/2011
  Doctors fearful of legal action are increasingly ordering "defensive" test according to data collected by the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
• Recession Dramatically Altered Small Business Insurance Habits - posted 02/16/2011
  A survey commissioned by Insurance Journal shows that cost-cutting insurance habits adopted by small businesses during the recession may be a permanent consequence of tough economic times.
• Dental Health Neglected in the United States - posted 02/10/2011
  A variety of socio-economic factors are leading Americans to neglect their dental health, with just 71 percent of adults seeing a dentist in 2010.
• Reforms Will Alter Health Care, Insurance in 2011 - posted 02/01/2011
  High deductibles will keep consumers away from the doctor's office in 2011 while insurers will focus on federally mandated changes to their medical loss ratio numbers as the face of health care in the U.S. begins to change.

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