January 19, 2008

Task force proposes health insurance pool

OLYMPIA - What if workers could buy health insurance from an insurance pool funded in part by their employers but tailored to their specific needs? That's one idea to emerge from the Washington State Blue Ribbon Commission on Health Care Costs and Access, which released a five-year plan this

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December 26, 2007

Children's health insurance sees setbacks in '07

The modest spending increase that Congress approved for a popular children's health insurance program will maintain coverage for those already enrolled. But many lacking insurance will have to look

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Posted by Ryan at 02:14 PM

December 23, 2007

Timing of Calif. action may boost health-care issue

LOS ANGELES - The universal health-insurance package that one chamber of California's legislature passed last week looks a lot like the one Massachusetts put in place a year earlier: Every resident must have insurance, every employer must pitch in, and no one can be denied coverage because of a preexisting

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December 09, 2007

Low-income families may face health insurance cuts

SANTA CRUZ -- Health insurance for about 6,500 children in Santa Cruz County hinges on a federal insurance program that lawmakers have failed to renew this year and have little time to do so before the congressional session

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December 08, 2007

Ad targets health insurance coverage

MASON CITY An advertisement running in Monday s Globe Gazette and nine other Iowa newspapers asserts that Vice President Dick Cheney would probably be dead if he had the same health insurance that many Americans

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December 04, 2007

Dade hopes to broker low-cost health insurance deal

Like Michael Jordan lending his celebrity to sneakers and sports drinks, Miami-Dade government may help promote a private low-cost health insurance that would be available to practically every county

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Posted by Ryan at 08:37 AM

November 25, 2007

Health care reform? Hush! You ll anger the Insurance Gods!

EVERYWHERE YOU GO in South Carolina, if there is a presidential candidate nearby (and they do seem to be everywhere), you ll see people in red T-shirts that say Divided We Fail. That s the AARP s way of drawing the candidates , and everyone else s, attention to the organization s belief that All Americans should have access to affordable health care, including prescription drugs, and these

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November 01, 2007

Health Insurance Agents Warn Against Imposing a 'Health Care Reform' Tax in California

At the Assembly Health Committee's hearing on Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's health care reform plan, the California Association of Health Underwriters (CAHU) and the National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors-California (NAIFA-California) urged lawmakers to avoid the mistakes made in New York and New Jersey, mistakes that have resulted in premiums more than 350 percent higher

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