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Hatch, Kennedy two of America's Best Leaders, says U.S. News
U.S. News World Report has named Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch and his late friend Sen. Ted Kennedy, of Massachusetts, as two of America's Best Leaders for their willingness to work across the partisan divide on key pieces of legislation. They join...
Minnesota Governor Proposes Interstate Health Compact
Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty is pitching the idea of a 50-state health insurance compact in a letter to his fellow governors. Pawlenty said such an entity would be modeled after the Interstate Insurance Product Regulation Commission. The pro...
Health Care Groups Lobby At Record Pace; $130M Spent On Television Ads This Year
WASHINGTON -- The drug and insurance industries have dramatically amped up their efforts to lobby Congress, spending millions over a three-month period to influence legislation aimed at reshaping the nation's health care system, new reports...
RLI to Expand Healthcare Liability Coverage
Illinois-based RLI announced a new non-profit healthcare organization and executive liability policy, which will include expanded coverage and simplified policy language. Our contract will be shorter more concise � which should alleviate...
Healthcare Battle Turns to Antitrust Law for Malpractice, Health Insurers
Democrats in Congress moved Wednesday to repeal the health insurance industry's exemption from antitrust laws, cranking up the pressure in a growing battle over President Barack Obama's healthcare reform plans. The moves were the latest cha...
Group Seeks Answers For Retirement 'Crisis'; High Jobless Rate Intensifies Issues
When Vise-Grip closed its plant last year in DeWitt, Neb., and moved it to China, Anita Oltmans lost her job. With no job, federal law prevented her from continuing to contribute to her 401(k) plan. She watched her account spiral down as th...
Unhealthy Health Savings Accounts
To the millions of aging workers sweating the prospect that health care costs could wreck them financially later in life, health savings accounts are something of a godsend. Established under the Medicare Act of 2003, they enable families t...
Health Bill Gun Claim A Wild Shot
The statement The Baucus health care bill could be used to ban guns in home self-defense. - Gun Owners of America in an Oct. 9 alert to members The ruling: FALSE In the last few weeks, Gun Owners of America has sent out several action alert...
Economy swallows benefits as well as jobs
Many people lose their health insurance when they lose their jobs, and during the first eight months of the year this was true in few states more than it was in Alabama, according to a new report. The report by Families USA, a nonprofit hea...
Two Republicans Face Off in Wilson District for Supervisor Position
ABINGDON, Va. -- After a contentious nomination process earlier this year, two Republicans -- one now running as an independent -- are vying for the Wilson District seat on the Washington County Board of Supervisors. Vernon Smith, a U.S. Ai...
Council seeks agreement on health-care cost reduction settlement with ex-CFO
The City Council is grappling with a plan to cut employee health -care costs by $500,000, a reduction the council already approved as part of the 2010 budget that took effect Oct. 1. The administration proposes saving the money by increasin...
Five Health Bills Encounter 535 Congressional Opinions
Five bills. Five different approaches to remaking the U.S. health care system. Congressional leaders are working to find common ground between the many reform bills that have passed committees and now must be merged into legislation that ca...
As Obama Lashes Out at Insurers During Address, AHIP Defends Study
President Barack Obama's weekly address -- recorded for radio and online viewing -- focused a six-minute assault on the health insurers he accuses of trying to derail health care reform. For decades, whenever we have tried to reform the sys...
Health reforms worry small firms: Some fear costs will rise
Like the city of Flint, where his family's auto dealership was founded 95 years ago, Chris Graff, general manager of Hank Graff Chevrolet, considers himself a survivor. His Davison dealership near Flint is hanging on despite a crumbling sta...
Globalequity Announces an Investment Report Featuring Healthcare Services Company SK3 Group, Inc.
Globalequityreport.com announces an investment report featuring Healthcare Services company SK3 Group, Inc. The report includes financial and investment analysis, analyst consensus, and pertinent industry information you need to know to mak...
Recommendations For Retirement Planning
Longevity is one of the biggest risks of retirement -- and life expectancy is steadily increasing. By age 75, life expectancy increasesto 86.9 years for females and 84.6 years for males. Ironically, people with a higher life expectancy tend...
Bipartisan health care bill must include GOP proposals
On Tuesday, January 6, 2009, I cast my first vote in the U.S. House of Representatives in support of John Boehner of Ohio for Speaker of the House. This vote would ultimately become Nancy Pelosi's first victory of the year and a preview of...
North Carolinians Cutting Back on Needed Medical Services During Down Economy, BCBSNC Survey Finds
One in six North Carolinians say they are cutting back on needed medical services, including physical exams and health screenings, because of economic concerns, according to a survey by Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina (www.bcbs...
Cost Of Long-term Health Care in U.S. To Increase
The cost of long-term health has been steadily increasing by at least three percent for the last decade, and it's expected to increase to about five percent during the next decade. Right now there are an estimated 10 million Americans that...
Insurance Industry Leads Late Assault On Health Care Reform
The insurance industry came off the bench too late in the game to block Senate Finance Committee approval Tuesday of a health care overhaul bill, but its failed eleventh-hour assault was a harbinger of attacks to come from once-dormant inte...
Health Care Expansion Plan Could Strain States; Coverage Would Extend By 10 Million
WASHINGTON -- The government programs that provide health care to the poor would expand to cover nearly one in five Americans under health insurance legislation pending in Congress, putting pressure on federal and state budgets. Medicaid, o...
A Bumpy Ride For Business; Taxes And Regulations Will Obstruct Growth
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce began an ad campaign last week to promote free enterprise, which it warned was in danger of being drowned by a tsunami of government regulations, controls and taxes that would inhibit economic growth and jobs fo...
President Obama Calls Hails Progress on Health Insurance Reform Despite Defenders of the Status Quo
WEEKLY ADDRESS: President Obama Calls Hails Progress on Health Insurance Reform Despite Defenders of the Status Quo WASHINGTON - In his weekly address, President Barack Obama praised the progress that has been made on health insurance refor...
Black, and Asian Islander and National Groups Support Health Care their Communities
Congressional Tricaucus and national minority medical and nursing leaders are meeting in Washington, DC tomorrow, at the Rayburn House Office Building, Room B-339 from 5:00 - 7:00 pm, to urge Congress to pass health care reform legislation...
Indiana Health Information Exchange's Innovative Quality Health First Program Expands to Lafayette Region
Indiana Health Information Exchange (IHIE) today announced the expansion of their innovative Quality Health First (QHF) program to the greater Lafayette region. The QHF program, the first of its kind in the United States, is a quality-repor...
Atos Origin wins Renault contract
French IT services company Atos Origin has won a three-year contract from automobile manufacturer Renault covering applications related to vehicle design, manufacturing, sales and corporate functions. The agreement follows a contract signed...
Athenahealth Completes Acquisition of Anodyne Health Partners, Inc.
athenahealth, Inc. (NASDAQ: ATHN), a leading provider of internet-based business services for physician practices, announced that it has completed the acquisition of Anodyne Health Partners, Inc. in an all-cash transaction that closed on Fr...
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