WellPoint to buy CareMore Health Group for about $800 million

The deal, which is expected to be announced Wednesday morning, would add to WellPoint's already dominant position in California, Arizona and Nevada.

Fierce Healthcare -- "With retail clinics increasing ten-fold, more health systems and hospitals are capitalizing on the trend and getting in on the retail movement.

Jon Cohn spent part of Saturday wandering through the patches of protesters on Capitol Hill. What surprised him, however, was that the protests seemed less about health-care reform than about redistribution itself. To the protesters, Jon says, health-care reform is "about having their money taken for the sake of somebody else's security. When they hear stories of people left bankrupt or sick because of uninsurance, they are more likely to see a lack of personal responsibility and virtue than a lack of good fortune."

Authored by Catey Hall, via Jim Quinn's Burning Platform blog, The aging 'me' generation is still putting itself first... 1. “Paws off, Junior. This cash is mine.”

By Caroline HumerNEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. government is expected to announce this week the proposed payment rates for insurer-run Medicare plans in 2015, but industry officials say the anticipated cuts will mean higher co-pays and fewer benefits for seniors.

By Gad Allon: By Martin Lariviere

The Burrill Report submits: Mayo Clinic will conduct a year-long research study to determine if home monitoring of patients with chronic diseases, using Intel's (INTC) remote patient monitoring technology, will reduce hospitalizations and emergency department visits.