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Doctors Could Do More to Reduce Smoking

By Jon Greenberg on Monday, August 2, 2004.

In New Hampshire, an estimated 440 million dollars a year is spent treating the diseases caused by smoking. It would seem reasonable that doctors and other health care professionals would be leading the charge to help smokers quit. But a new study finds that many of them are overlooking some simple steps that could make a big difference.

New Hampshire Public Radio's Jon Greenberg has more.

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Report Shows Flawed Process Continued Post-Pepin

By Josh Rogers on Monday, August 2, 2004.

The Benson administration's experience with moving to self-insurance to provide heath benefits for state employees has been a troubled one. In the spring of 2003...The initial bidding process was judged to be so flawed it was terminated. And government officials had to start again from square one. Now NHPR has obtained an internal report from the Governor's office that says even that second round contained a major error that understated the state's expected health care claims by 20 million dollars.

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