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Financial pressures stretching Lilly

In a series of presentations, Lilly executives stretched themselves in four directions at once to convince investors and stock analysts that the company will bend but not break next year, and then snap back stronger than ever in 2015.

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Lilly to buy back $5B as sales goal harder to reach

Eli Lilly and Co. said Thursday that meeting its sale target will be a challenge. It plans to repurchase $5 billion in shares and introduce new diabetes drugs to help navigate through patent losses. Another immediate hurdle: Obamacare.

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Pressure mounts to fix health insurance exchanges

The pressure is on for the federal government and states running their own health insurance exchanges to get the systems up and running after overloaded websites and jammed phone lines frustrated consumers for a second day.

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THOMAS: Confusion about health care act abounds

As president of a professional employer organization, I spend an enormous amount of time dealing with the complexities of the Affordable Care Act from the perspective of an employer sponsoring a health insurance plan.

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ROSSWURM: Parents are scrambling to cover autism

As a parent of a young adult with autism and as a leader of an applied behavior analysis (ABA) therapy center focused on autism, I know firsthand about the challenges in finding appropriate and affordable insurance coverage to support special needs children.

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BURNS: Music therapy hits the high notes

It’s a common and natural occurrence: A song comes on the radio and you instantly recall memories—perhaps it makes you smile or remember old friends, or it just takes you back to a moment in your life.

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Pence pleads for end to medical device tax

Republican Gov. Mike Pence wrote a letter Monday urging members of the U.S. Senate to vote to repeal the medical device tax that is helping to finance Obamacare. But the Senate on Monday night voted not to repeal the tax, with all 54 Democrats voting to keep it.

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Shutdown orders issued as Congress misses deadline

For the first time in nearly two decades, the federal government staggered into a partial shutdown Monday at midnight after congressional Republicans demanded changes in the nation's health care law and President Barack Obama and Democrats refused.

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