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Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
The House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee on Wednesday by voice vote approved to extend a bill (HR 2851, S 400) that would allow college students who are forced to leave school for a serious illness to continue to receive health care benefits under their parents' health insurance policies, CongressDaily ...
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Monday, July 14th, 2008
New Georgia state laws aimed at reducing the number of uninsured by providing incentives for them to buy lower-premium health care policies are not likely to work, according to a report issued this month by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, the Florida Times-Union reports.In an effort to reduce ...
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Monday, July 14th, 2008
Reps. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) and Jo Ann Emerson (R-Mo.) on Wednesday introduced a companion bill (HR 6444) to Senate legislation (S 334) that would establish a universal health insurance system in the U.S., the Salt Lake Tribune reports (Canham, Salt Lake Tribune, 7/10).The Senate bill, sponsored by Sens. Ron ...
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Saturday, July 12th, 2008
Many states and Congress have begun to address "one of the biggest causes" of the rising number of uninsured U.S. residents: the growing number of small businesses that are unable to afford health insurance for their employees, the New York Times reports. At least 20 million of the 47 ...
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Saturday, July 12th, 2008
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Friday, July 11th, 2008
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Friday, July 11th, 2008
New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine (D) on Tuesday signed into law legislation that mandates health coverage for all state residents younger than age 19, expands coverage for low-income families and allows insurers to charge different premiums for individual coverage based on a person's age, the Bergen Record reports. Mandating children's ...
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Friday, July 11th, 2008
The New York Times on Wednesday examined a plan by presumptive Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) to expand high-risk health insurance pools as part of his plan to provide greater access to health insurance in an "invigorated individual market." High-risk pools, now based in states, generally help individuals ...
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Friday, July 11th, 2008
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Friday, July 11th, 2008
A proposed bipartisan bill (S 344) that seeks to make "sweeping changes" to the existing U.S. system of employer-based health insurance could pose significant problems to other efforts to expand health care and make it more difficult to reduce the number of uninsured people in the country, members of the ...
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Friday, July 11th, 2008
For decades, health care reform discussions have left those without health care coverage empty handed and those struggling with the high cost of coverage disappointed. Next year there is an opportunity for the nation to try again. The Board of Directors of America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) has offered ...
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Thursday, July 10th, 2008
Although "[j]obs, benefits, housing, health coverage, college and retirement savings, even bought-and-paid-for insurance all played crucial roles in maintaining families' economic stability during the second half of the 20th century ... the protective value of each has been weakened over the last generation," Peter Gosselin, national economic correspondent for the ...
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Thursday, July 10th, 2008
Coverage of 26 health benefits mandated under Massachusetts' health insurance law account for 12 cents of every $1 paid for health insurance, and statewide, the mandates cost about $1.3 billion annually, according to a report released on Monday by the state Division of Health Care Finance and Policy, the Boston ...
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Thursday, July 10th, 2008
WellPoint on Monday agreed to pay $11.8 million to about 480 private and public hospitals in California to resolve allegations that subsidiary Anthem Blue Cross failed to pay the bills of patients who had their health insurance policies canceled after they received treatment, the Los Angeles Times reports (Girion, Los ...
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Thursday, July 10th, 2008
The number of employers that would drop health insurance for employees under the health care proposal of presumptive Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) remains a "great unknown," the AP/Houston Chronicle reports. The proposal would replace an income tax break for employees who receive health insurance from employers ...
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