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Kidney failure system a $22B ‘hulking monster’ (Morning Read)

How did our nation's most ambitious experiment in universal healthcare -- comprehensive Medicare coverage for every kidney failure patient -- descend from a "supremely hopeful moment" nearly four decades ago to a $20-billion-a-year "hulking monster" that kills thousands of patients? ProPublica asks in its latest investigative series.

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Hospitals race to sign up doctors (Morning Read)

Late Friday, the UNC Health Care System finalized a deal to affiliate with Wake Heart & Vascular Associates, a huge cardiology practice in Wake County long associated with WakeMed. It's part of UNC's bigger push to expand its heart business, according to the News & Observer.

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Orlistat only obesity drug left standing (Morning Read)

Orlistat (sold as Xenical in prescription form and as Alli over the counter) is the only prescription weight-loss drug approved for long-term use now that Abbott removed Meridia from U.S. (where 68 percent of the population is overweight or obese) and Canadian markets, at the FDA's request, according to the Wall Street Journal's Health blog.