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Fear of losing health insurance pervasive  -  25 Mar 2008
Kansas City Star,By DIANE STAFFORD Fear of losing their health insurance if they change jobs haunts nearly three-fourths of American workers, according to a survey released

General insurance firms eye govt's new health plan  -  25 Mar 2008
Business Standard,Non-life insurance companies are keen on getting a slice of the Rs 1000-crore health insurance scheme proposed for 23 lakh retired and serving Central

Health Insurers, Physicians Raise Concerns About Cost, Safety of ...  -  25 Mar 2008
Kaiser network.org,Karen Ignagni, CEO of America's Health Insurance Plans, said, "Costs are soaring in this area, quality concerns are mounting and safety concerns are

Prudential Financial Outlines Practical Investment Tips You Should ...  -  25 Mar 2008
WELT ONLINE,If you are retiring and will no longer have access to employment-based health insurance, how youâ€™ll maintain an appropriate level of medical coverage is a

Care-India, Bajaj Allianz launch rural health cover  -  25 Mar 2008
Business Standard,NGO Care-India, in association with Bajaj Allianz General Insurance Company, has launched a community-based micro health insurance programme in Kanyakumari

HEALTH: Seniors, beware of insurance scams  -  25 Mar 2008
Lancaster Newspapers,A: The Health Insurance Assistance Program is your best bet. Please notify your state insurance department and attorney general if you are scammed.

Health Care: Not So Recession-Proof  -  25 Mar 2008
BusinessWeekFor starters, folks could opt for mortgage payments over health insurance by Catherine Arnst The knees always go first. And the gums.

Tain district mutual health insurance DCE wants support to achieve ...  -  25 Mar 2008
Accra Daily Mail,...participation in the Tain district Mutual Health Insurance registration to enable the scheme attain its 50% coverage target by the close of the 2008.

How Government Adds To Ranks of Uninsured  -  25 Mar 2008
Wall Street JournalYet, unlike the federal workers who were her customers, Ms. Derricotte had no health insurance from her job. She worked for a private contractor hired by

Cigna spends $1.2M to lobby in 2007  -  25 Mar 2008
CNNMoney.comCigna lobbied on a range of bills related to health care, health insurance and Medicare. The company also lobbied on legislation to extend the Treasury

Candidates tackle health care  -  25 Mar 2008
Centre Daily Times,Americans do not have health insurance. The skyrocketing cost of health care is also forcing many small businesses to stop offering health insurance to

Washington Post Examines Effect of Increased Health Care Costs on ...  -  25 Mar 2008
Kaiser network.org,Meanwhile, premiums for employer-sponsored health insurance have increased by 78% since 2001, according to an annual survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation

Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report Highlights Recent Presidential ...  -  25 Mar 2008
Kaiser network.org,NFIB opposes health care proposals that would require small businesses to offer health insurance to employees or pay into a federal fund to provide coverage

HOW INSURANCE (DOESN'T) WORK.  -  25 Mar 2008
The American Prospect,Why do we want people to have health insurance? I always get some variant of four answers. 1) We want people to be protected against rare, unpredictable and

Study: 1 Coloradan Dies Each Day With No Insurance  -  25 Mar 2008
cbs4denver.com,DENVER (AP) â€• A new report by a national health-care advocacy group says one person dies each day in Colorado because they don't have health insurance.

Health insurance for pets a growing industry  -  25 Mar 2008
Enterprise News,So she bought health insurance for her two dogs to cover trips to the veterinarian. â€œWhen I got a dog of my own, I realized they do get sick and they may

Massachusetts Health Insurance Connector Approves 10% Premium ...  -  25 Mar 2008
Medical News Today (press release),The Massachusetts Health Insurance Connector Authority on Thursday voted to approve a 10% increase in premiums for insurers participating in Commonwealth

Earles: Students suffer under health insurance costs  -  25 Mar 2008
University Daily Kansan,By Mandy Earles (Contact) Iâ€™ll be surprised if I make it to 45 years old. Iâ€™m sure Iâ€™m not the only one out there who suffers from a thing called insurance.

Paying for health care after early retirement  -  25 Mar 2008
Dailyrecord.com,There's just one obstacle on the road to Brown's retirement adventure: health insurance. Brown, along with 2.8 million of the oldest boomers,

Town explores self insurance  -  25 Mar 2008
Meriden Record-Journal,The city of New Haven announced last week it would attempt to go out to bid for its health insurance contract. "We're confident that this could be a very

Pick-me-up urgently needed  -  25 Mar 2008
Insurance News Net (press release),..."Such a complex reform is impossible without involving private investors in the health insurance system as minority stakeholders. However, the reversing of

House endorses bill to reform health care  -  25 Mar 2008
Kansas.com,The Senate eliminated the program last week in favor of a modest expansion of the State Children's Health Insurance Program. The House bill is the product

Aguirre worked for year to require insurance coverage for autism  -  25 Mar 2008
Yuma Sun,Because her family's health insurance didn't cover treatment for the disorder, Ugol said she and her husband spent about $50000 a year on speech therapy and

Wyden sees health care as top issue  -  25 Mar 2008
Statesman Journal,SJ: If I'm Joe or Jane Worker, how would your health insurance plan be different for me? WYDEN: Let's talk about Joe and Jane both having coverage with an

Insurance rates increase  -  25 Mar 2008
Ball State Daily News,The Board of Trustees voted in its March 21 meeting that health insurance rates will increase about 3 percent, while some premiums will decrease.

Restaurant Owner Falls For Insurance Scam  -  25 Mar 2008
WFSB,The owner of two Connecticut restaurants ended up the victim of scam while trying to secure health insurance for his employees.

Opinion Piece Examines Value of 'Socialized Medicine' in US Health ...  -  25 Mar 2008
Kaiser network.org,...proposed that workers whose employers do not provide coverage should be able to purchase health insurance from a public program modeled after Medicare.

Cautionary Healthcare Tales From California and Massachusetts  -  25 Mar 2008
The Nation.,In both Obama's and Clinton's plan, people do not have a right to health insurance, as is the case in truly universal national health insurance systems,

Health-care reforms: First, ensure all kids have access to coverage  -  25 Mar 2008
DesMoinesRegister.com,Two-year-olds and 3-year-olds who don't get immunized because their parents don't have health insurance. Teenagers who are obese and lack the help of

DNC McCain Myth Buster: John McCain and Health Care  -  25 Mar 2008
NewsBlaze,McCain voted against reauthorizing the State Children's Health Insurance Program for five years, expanding the program by $35.2 billion .

Fitch Report Comments on US Health Insurer Earning Revisions  -  25 Mar 2008
Business Wire (press release),CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--According to a special report published last week by Fitch Ratings, the downward earnings revisions in the health insurance sector

Senate to mull health bill  -  25 Mar 2008
Wilkes Barre Times-Leader,The program would give grants to small-business owners who offer health insurance coverage to their low-income workers and provide a health savings account

Mental health care coverage may get boost  -  25 Mar 2008
Tucson Citizen,His mother goes without health insurance so his family can pay the medical bills that mount because of limits the insurance company places on mental health

Health care for all Americans  -  25 Mar 2008
Roanoke Times,...group for affordable health care estimated last week that 10 Virginians between 24 and 64 years of age die every week for lack of health insurance.

Kagen gives hope to health care crisis  -  25 Mar 2008
UW Badger Herald,By framing it as â€œdiscriminationâ€? when health insurance is denied to citizens with pre-existing conditions, Mr. Kagen has cut to the root of the problem by

Ethiopia: Sisters Held in US Insurance Fraud Case - Report  -  25 Mar 2008
AllAfrica.com,..."Fraudulent claims are a driving force behind the increased cost of health insurance and the Attorney General's Insurance Fraud Section is committed to

Small business key in US health debate  -  25 Mar 2008
Kuwait Times,The National Federation of Independent Business helped derail President Bill Clinton's effort to overhaul the health insurance system during the 1990s,

Not so fast on the health insurance mandates  -  Mar 24, 2008
Los Angeles Times,Hillary Rodham Clinton would "mandate" that everyone (with limited exceptions) purchase private health insurance. Although Sen. Barack Obama's plan also

Draft Policy Promises Drastic Reforms to Make Health Services Cheaper  -  Mar 24, 2008
AllAfrica.com,It also seeks to review of National Social Health Insurance Scheme to be in line with the financing strategy for the health sector.

After holiday, lawmakers look at budget deficit, health insurance  -  Mar 24, 2008
Minnesota Public Radio,The Minnesota Senate is also expected to take up a bill that would provide health insurance to another 47000 people. Sen. Linda Berglin, DFL-Minneapolis,

Company Cancels Domestic Partner Health Insurance For 9/11 Survivor  -  Mar 24, 2008
365Gay.com...in New Jersey urging the company to interpret its policy on domestic partner health insurance so that more employees will have access to the insurance.

'There's still room for more players in insurance'  -  Mar 23, 2008
Sify,Health insurance premium at over Rs 3000 crore has emerged as the second most important portfolio after motor insurance and is expected to grow fast in the

Future Tempe Union retirees won't get health insurance  -  Mar 22, 2008
Arizona Republic,Tempe Union High School District employees who retire after June 30 will not get district-funded health insurance, a decision the governing board blames on

Life Denied: Nurses, Family of Sick Teen March on Health Insurance ...  -  Mar 24, 2008
Bay Area Indymedia,...friends and concerned community members will join the family of Nick Colombo marching on the corporate offices of health insurance giant PacifiCare in

Protecting yourself from medical emergencies on your own means ...  -  Mar 23, 2008
Houston Chronicle,But more employers, particularly smaller ones, say it is too expensive to provide health insurance for workers. As a result, a growing number of Americans

Most states have high-risk health insurance pools  -  Mar 24, 2008
Crain's Detroit Business,At least 34 other states have high-risk health insurance pools similar to the one being debated by the Senate Health Policy Committee.

Dying for coverage Lack of insurance deadly for some Oregonians  -  Mar 24, 2008
The Register-Guard,The reportâ€™s bottom line: Lack of health insurance costs some people their lives. One day itâ€™sa single mother who had to choose between paying the rent and

Health care costs a nagging worry for Detroiters  -  Mar 24, 2008
Detroit Free Press,A new poll reveals that solid majorities rank cost and availability of health insurance as big concerns. The nonprofit Council for Excellence in Government,

Controlling Health Insurance Premiums with FSA, HRA, HSA Plans  -  Mar 23, 2008
IndustryWeekBy Jim Edholm, President, Business Benefits Insurance March 24, 2008 -- Health insurance costs are rising much faster than inflation.

Health insurance on the upswing in UAE  -  Mar 23, 2008
GulfNews,By Suzanne Fenton, Staff Reporter Dubai: Health insurance in the UAE is finally witnessing a long-awaited growth spurt thanks to landmark legislative

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