Former Senate majority leader Tom Daschle, nominated last week as the next head of the Department of Health and Human Services by President-elect Barack Obama, is apparently already assembling a team heavy on both policy and legislative expertise — the latest sign that the incoming administration is ready to put some serious muscle behind healthcare-reform plans. While it’s not yet...
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December 2008
UnitedHealth launches consumer-health Web portal — In a departure for a major health-insurance company, UnitedHealth Group launched an open Web site aimed at providing anyone with health information, tools and a personal health record. The site, dubbed myoptumhealth.com and offered by UnitedHealth subsidiary Optum Health, puts the insurer in competition with other health portals and PHR...
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