Smoking costs the U.S. economy $96 billion a year in direct health care costs.

Source: Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services

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Growth of Employer Plans Forseen With Health Reform
MedPage Today, 9-2-10

Donated malaria drugs being stolen in Africa
Boston Globe, 9-2-10

Report: Health insurance costs surged this year
The Hill's "Healthwatch," 9-2-10

Small businesses to benefit from health care reform
Baltimore Sun, 9-2-10

Stem-Cell Plaintiffs Cite Ethical Motivation
Wall Street Journal, 9-2-10

Desperate for a Treatment, One Physician Heals Himself
Wall Street Journal, 9-2-10

Health insurance tax credit likely to affect small part of small-business workforce
Washington Post, 9-2-10

ObamaCare and the Constitution
Reason, August-September 2010

Health care takes center stage
Editorial, Daily Globe, 9-2-10

Debunking Medicare Myths
James C. Capretta, Kaiser Health News, 9-2-10

Time to take action against portions of healthcare law
Sen. Orrin Hatch, The Hill, 9-1-10

What health care reform will mean to your business
Matt McClellan, Smart Business, 9-1-10

Side Effects: Future of Private Insurance Rests in Secretary Sebelius' Hands
Kathryn Nix, Heritage.org, 9-1-10

Yet Another Underfunded Bridge Program Brought To You By ObamaCare
Peter Suderman, Reason, 9-1-10

The Effects of the Affordable Care Act on Workers' Health Insurance Coverage
New England Journal of Medicine, 9-1-10

The Value of Genetic and Genomic Technologies
Institute of Medicine of the National Academies, 8-23-10

Has the European Union Achieved a Single Pharmaceutical Market?
Aysegul Timur, Gabriel Picone, and Jeffrey S. DeSimone, National Bureau of Economic Research, August 2010

Trends and Characteristics of US Emergency Department Visits, 1997-2007
Ning Tang, John Stein, Renee Y. Hsia, Judith H. Maselli, and Ralph Gonzales, Journal of the American Medical Association, 8-11-10

Evaluation of Comparative Treatment Trials
Helena Chmura Kraemer and Ellen Frank, Journal of the American Medical Association, 8-11-10

New Drug Approval: FDA's Consideration of Evidence from Certain Clinical Trials
U.S. Government Accountability Office, July 2010

Do Bad Report Cards Have Consequences? Impacts of Publicly Reported Provider Quality Information on the CABG Market in Pennsylvania
Justin Wang, Jason Hockenberry, Shin-Yi Chou, and Muzhe Yang, National Bureau of Economic Research, July 2010