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J&J to pay $2.5B to settle hip replacement suits

The agreement is one of the largest ever for the medical device industry. It resolves an estimated 8,000 cases of patients who had to have the company’s metal ball-and-socket hip implant removed or replaced. The implants were made by J&J’s Indiana-based DePuy unit.

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Health care has priced itself out of its own market

It’s no secret the growth of the U.S. economy slowed in the 2000s after the go-go decade preceding it. But the U.S. health care system—hospitals, doctors, drug companies, device makers and health insurers—apparently didn’t get that memo.

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Obama’s telling the same kind of fib he did before

The Affordable Care Act was designed to restructure the individual insurance market into a true insurance risk pool. President Obama should stop pretending those changes won’t affect everyone in the individual market, whether they want it to or not.

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