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        "uri": "/2017/12/12/hospitals-are-merging-to-face-off-with-insurers/",
        "title": "Hospitals are merging to face off with insurers",
        "byline": "Zachary Tracer, Bloomberg",
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        "prettyDate": "December 12, 2017",
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        "summary": "A spate of hospital deals stands to further remake the U.S. health-care landscape, pushing up prices for consumers and insurers and changing how individuals get care.",
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        "uri": "/2017/12/06/unitedhealth-buys-davitas-physician-practices-for/",
        "title": "UnitedHealth buys DaVita's physician practices for $4.9 billion",
        "byline": "Zachary Tracer, Bloomberg",
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        "prettyDate": "December 06, 2017",
        "timeToRead": "3 minute",
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        "summary": "The all-cash takeover will bulk up UnitedHealths growing business of clinics and physician practices, which it operates under the OptumCare name.",
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        "uri": "/2017/12/05/forget-amazon-health-companies-really-want-to-be-u/",
        "title": "Forget Amazon, health companies really want to be UnitedHealth",
        "byline": " Zachary Tracer ",
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        "prettyDate": "December 05, 2017",
        "timeToRead": "3 minute",
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        "summary": "As the specter of Amazon.com Inc. looms over the health-care industry, its easy to see the tech giants threat as a major factor behind the megadeal between CVS Health Corp. and Aetna Inc. Yet the deal will build a company to match up against a rival that already has businesses...",
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        "uri": "/2017/11/30/stabilization-bill-couldnt-fix-the-damage-of-repea/",
        "title": "Stabilization bill couldn’t fix the damage of repealing Obamacare’s mandate",
        "byline": " Zachary Tracer ",
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        "prettyDate": "November 30, 2017",
        "timeToRead": "2 minute",
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        "summary": "Passing a bipartisan Obamacare stabilization bill wouldnt do much to cushion the blow from repealing the health laws requirement that all individuals buy health insurance, the Congressional Budget Office says.",
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        "uri": "/2017/10/27/cvs-reportedly-in-talks-to-buy-aetna/",
        "title": "CVS reportedly in talks to buy Aetna",
        "byline": "Zachary Tracer, Robert Langreth",
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        "prettyDate": "October 27, 2017",
        "timeToRead": "2 minute",
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            "webUrl": "/author/profile/zachary-tracer-robert-langreth/",
            "name": "Zachary Tracer, Robert Langreth"
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        "summary": "A deal between the two would create a health-services giant and a bigger competitor for UnitedHealth Group Inc., which is the largest U.S. health insurer and has its own own clinics and a pharmacy-benefits unit.",
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        "uri": "/2017/10/25/cbo-scores-bipartisan-aca-proposal-how-does-it-mea/",
        "title": "CBO scores bipartisan ACA proposal: How does it measure up?",
        "byline": " Zachary Tracer, Erik Wasson ",
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        "prettyDate": "October 25, 2017",
        "timeToRead": "2 minute",
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            "name": "Zachary Tracer, Erik Wasson"
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        "summary": "Congresss non-partisan scorekeeper didnt find any big savings for the U.S government in a Senate bill designed to stabilize Obamacare, but the reason for that is a technicality.",
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        "uri": "/2017/10/25/republicans-push-new-proposal-to-shore-up-obamacar/",
        "title": "Republicans push new proposal to shore up Obamacare",
        "byline": " Zachary Tracer ",
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        "prettyDate": "October 25, 2017",
        "timeToRead": "2 minute",
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        "summary": "The deal includes funding for insurer subsidies for two years, with unspecified pro-life protections; pausing Obamacares requirements that all people have health insurance and that employers offer it; and increasing the contribution limit for health-savings accounts.",
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        "uri": "/2017/10/17/new-health-care-bill-puts-subsidies-back-into-play/",
        "title": "New health care bill puts subsidies back into play",
        "byline": "Zachary Tracer, Justin Sink, Laura Litvan, Bloomberg",
        "kicker": "",
        "prettyDate": "October 17, 2017",
        "timeToRead": "5 minute",
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            "name": "Zachary Tracer, Justin Sink, Laura Litvan, Bloomberg"
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        "summary": "President Donald Trump gave his blessing to a bipartisan health-care bill to pay the same insurance subsidies that the president said hed halt last week, according to a Republican senator working on the package.",
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        "uri": "/2017/10/16/9-faqs-about-the-latest-aca-changes/",
        "title": "9 FAQs about the latest ACA changes",
        "byline": "Natasha Rausch, Zachary Tracer",
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        "prettyDate": "October 16, 2017",
        "timeToRead": "6 minute",
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        "authors": [
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        "summary": "Overwhelmed by the deluge of analyses, scrutiny, predictions and other responses to the Trump administration's health care reform efforts? Here are nine basic questions and answers.",
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        "uri": "/2017/10/13/trump-cuts-off-health-insurer-subsidy/",
        "title": "Trump cuts off health-insurer subsidy",
        "byline": "Zachary Tracer",
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        "prettyDate": "October 13, 2017",
        "timeToRead": "7 minute",
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        "summary": "The effect is likely to be profoundly destabilizing, disruptive and potentially materially damaging to hospitals and those exchanges plans who are still required to offer benefits.",
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