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June 30, 2006

Health insurance saving tips

DENVER - Since 2000 premiums for family health insurance have risen 73% while inflation grew at 14% and wages grew only at 15% -- this is a large gap to cover. Most employers in the Colorado area do not pick up the entire tab for healthcare costs for their employees. Employees usually have to pay for dependents and sometimes a portion of the employee cost as

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Posted by Rob at 11:58 AM

Expanded health care law kicks in

As many as 40,000 children who either lack health insurance or receive just basic coverage will become eligible for subsidized insurance tomorrow when Massachusetts implements the first changes under

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Posted by Mel at 08:38 AM

June 29, 2006

Senate Hearing Considers Health Court Model To Help Reduce Medical Malpractice Insurance Costs

The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee on Thursday held a hearing on a bill (S 1337) sponsored by Sens. Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.) and Max Baucus (D-Mont.) that would test a number of proposals to reduce medical malpractice insurance costs, CQ HealthBeat reports (Reichard, CQ HealthBeat, 9/22). [click link for full

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Hohoe, June 27, GNA - The Jasikan District Mutual Health Insurance Scheme (JDMHIS) on Monday, paid 102.6 million cedis to identifiable Service providers as medical claims at a ceremony at Jasikan in the Volta

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HOLLAND -- Holland Public Schools is willing to let its teachers' union return to the health insurance members prefer as long as it decides by today and pays the difference between what the plan costs and what the district says it can

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Taipei, June 27 (CNA) The shortage of funds for the National Health Insurance program must be solved by October when the government's last subsidies to the program run out, Vice Health Minister Chen Shih-chung warned

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Posted by John at 03:11 PM

Opinion Pieces Examine Proposed Health Insurance Reforms

Two opinion pieces recently examined health insurance coverage in the U.S. Summaries appear below.Ronald Brownstein, Los Angeles Times: Although "more than 174 million workers and their families receive" health insurance through their employers, the "system is cracking" as fewer small employers offer coverage and as large employers say the rising cost of health care in the U.S. [click link for

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Posted by Murray at 02:52 PM

New Health Insurance Fund for Africa

The Dutch Minister of Development Cooperation, Mrs. Agnes van Ardenne, and the former CEO of AEGON, Kees Storm, chairman of the Health Insurance Fund , have launched a groundbreaking initiative for a new health insurance fund for Africa in the presence of the top of the Dutch business

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Posted by Rob at 01:38 PM

Hospitals sue health system to recoup Medicare payments

New Jersey's largest health-care provider, which recently agreed to pay $265 million to settle charges of cheating Medicare out of more than half a billion dollars, is now being sued by small hospitals including one from Maine that say the fraud made them pay more into the federal health-insurance

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Posted by Peter at 12:51 PM

School district makes health-insurance offer

HOLLAND -- Holland Public Schools is willing to let its teachers' union return to the health insurance members prefer as long as it decides by today and pays the difference between what the plan costs and what the district says it can

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Posted by Sean at 08:15 AM

June 28, 2006

Speakers to address Mass. health-insurance law

Two leaders of the movement for national health insurance will speak at 7 p.m. Thursday at the First United Methodist Church in Oneonta. The topic is the Massachusetts health-insurance plan that some have said provides "universal

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The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee on Thursday held a hearing on a bill (S 1337) sponsored by Sens. Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.) and Max Baucus (D-Mont.) that would test a number of proposals to reduce medical malpractice insurance costs, CQ HealthBeat reports (Reichard, CQ HealthBeat, 9/22). [click link for full

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Taipei, June 27 (CNA) The shortage of funds for the National Health Insurance program must be solved by October when the government's last subsidies to the program run out, Vice Health Minister Chen Shih-chung warned

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Approximately 41.2 million U.S. residents, or 14.2%, of the U.S. population, had no health insurance in 2005 at a specific point in time, demonstrating a small improvement over 2004, according to a survey published on Wednesday by the National Center for Health Statistics, Reuters reports (Reuters, 6/21). Study results were based on responses from 98,300 U.S. residents. [click link for full

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Macomb County is trying to offer free or reduced-cost health care to lower-income residents and workers at small businesses that don't offer insurance. The effort is part of a nonprofit initiative that uses county, state and federal funds to reach people with no insurance or access to free or reduced-cost care. About 80,000 county residents are

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They're young and relatively healthy, but lack health insurance. Collectively, they number more than 10 million and provide challenges to the health care sector, but new ideas to get them enrolled are arriving from a variety of

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Posted by Mel at 04:34 PM