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Lifting the Veil on Pricing for Health Care

in News on October 28, 2009 at 1:00 am PT

It’s long been hard for health-care consumers to learn how much doctor visits or hospital stays will cost them. That’s now beginning to change, as a growing array of Web sites try to lift the veil on pricing.

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Health Insurers Eye Social Networking

in News on August 20, 2009 at 5:05 am PT

Lots of companies are starting to track social-networking tools like Twitter and Facebook to keep an eye on negative comments, put out their own happier spin and interact with consumers.