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When Humana Inc.`s president and CEO breezed into town last week, he brought dire warnings about the future of health care and the need for drastic changes to the entire system.

A proposal before the D.C. Council would create a new health finance agency, stripping the city`s Health Department of three-quarters of its budget in a bid to recover millions in unclaimed Medicaid dollars.

NORTHSIDE -- Facing state funding cuts and dealing with a mandatory managed care structure, mental health rehabilitation centers are having to find new ways to cover gaps in funding that state dollars used to fill.

Gov. Deval Patrick is pushing to put his personal fiscal foibles behind him by outlining millions of dollars for public health in next year`s budget, including free coverage of a controversial anti-cancer...

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Hours before he was to attend a White House dinner for the nation`s governors last night, Gov. Jon Corzine criticized President Bush for trying to balance the federal budget "on the backs" of programs like the one that provides health care to children of the working poor.

Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by editors of HealthDay:

After sorry 14-year hiatus, health-care debate revives

IBM, Intel, Microsoft and other tech companies are increasingly betting that the health care industry will help them grow as their traditional markets mature. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is to kick off a health care tech conference in New Orleans today. The health care Information and Management Systems Society show is expected to draw 900 exhibitors and 25,000 doctors, hospital staffers and ...