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AHIP Outlines Plan to Slash $145 Billion in Health Care Costs by 2015 (06/13/2008) -- America's Health Insurance Plans, or AHIP, recently released a health care reform proposal that it says could reduce America's total health care expenditures by $145 billion by the year 2015, but some groups have problems with the proposal's details.

Treating High Blood Pressure in Elderly May Reduce Risk of Death From Any Cause (06/12/2008) -- Your 80-year-old patient has high blood pressure. Should you treat the condition in someone that old? If the patient isn't frail, a study recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine suggests that maybe you should.

Senate Prepares to Debate Two Medicare Payment Proposals ) -- (06/11/2008) -- The chair of the Senate Finance Committee introduced a bipartisan bill last week that would provide an 18-month update in the Medicare physician payment rate, thus blocking a steep payment reduction scheduled for July 1. Today, the committee's ranking Republican introduced an alternative bill that also would provide a positive 18-month payment update.