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Hempfield Area School District bus drivers propose 'savings'
The union representing bus drivers in the Hempfield Area School District has submitted a proposal to the school board that offers a fair amount of savings on health care and an extremely reasonable amount on wages. Gilbert Gall, who represe...
Doctors split on effects of healthcare reform
As the battle over healthcare reform nears the home stretch, many doctors are worrying more, and more loudly, about how their income and practices will be affected. Specialists worry about proposals that could mean less in Medicare payments...
Cross-Country Multi-Media Exhibit for Affordable Family Health Insurance to Go on Display in U.S. Capitol Building
Over 1,000 portraits and handwritten notes from families in Louisiana, Missouri, Kansas, Florida, Colorado and California pleading for affordable health insurance will be on display at the U.S. Capitol Building on Tuesday, October 20 from 4...
Unmarried same-sex partners may lose benefits
The city of Iowa City and Johnson County began to address an uncommon, and possi bly unique, situation after the Iowa Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage last April. They are working on ways to drop extended health insurance benefits...
Crowd gets vocal at town hall meeting on health care
U.S. Rep. Jason Altmire was awash in applause Saturday when he emphatically stated that he is against a single-payer health-care system, one in which a government-run organization collects all health-care fees and pays all health-care costs...
How a handful of local residents feel they'll be affected by Congress' plans for health care reform
While lawmakers move closer to a compromise on health-care legislation, San Luis Obispo County residents continue to debate what shape reform will take and how it will affect their lives. Local business owners, faced with higher premiums, w...
percent Israelis pay supplementary 20-30% of have health insurance policies insurance
More than 70 percent of Israelis have supplementary health insurance policies offered by the country's four healthcare funds. 20-30 percent of Israelis also have private health insurance policies offered by insurance companies. Health insur...
Pharmacy Provisions in Senate Finance Committee Health Care Reform Merit Support
The Senate Finance Committee passed America's Health Future Act, a health care reform bill that includes several provisions ensuring the ability of community pharmacies to continue providing critical services to patients. In response, Bruce...
BridgeHealth Medical and Medtral New Zealand Link to Expand Medical Travel Options
BridgeHealth Medical, Inc., a provider of medical travel services, announced a partnership with Medtral New Zealand, a supplier of healthcare. With all-inclusive travel and medical treatment packages to New Zealand, Medtral's services will s...
Portraits of Health: Four stories from the health-care front
Five-year-old Erick Winston Jr. was born with a pre-existing health condition that makes him uninsurable. Dr. Mario Bartoletti waited two months for treatment in Canada, but he also waited nearly two months for treatment in the U.S. Jim Har...
Being young and uninsured in the Capital Region means taking risks
As health care reform works its way through Congress, people like Pat McGowin of Troy and Sally Block of Albany are tuned to its progress. They are among the more than 18 million young adults without health insurance in America.....
Tighter requirements for medical examiners face uphill battle
An onslaught of news reports about mistakes in medical examiner offices is rattling the foundations of the U.S. criminal justice system. Critics are having a field day pointing out blunders _ children's eyes misplaced, bodies mismatched.....
Proposal for Zakat holders health insurance under consideration
The Ministry of Zakat and Ushr is considering a proposal of health insurance aimed at providing all necessary medical care to deserving and destitute people at their door-step. The Takaful Pakistan Limited, an Islamic Insurance Company has...
Health fair provides access for Latinos
No insurance. No transportation. Little or no income. Those are some of the factors that often lead to increased health risks for America's Latino population, according to health professionals at a local event Saturday to encourage wellness...
Insurance industry is anti-reform, ex-CIGNA exec says
W.Va. -- Wendell Potter, who retired last year as vice president and chief spokesman for the insurance company CIGNA, said CIGNA has been part of the well-financed lobbying campaign every time Congress thought about reforming health care. P...
She fought cancer, then insurance: Now she works at assisting others in dealing with system.
Jeanne E. Helton, a 49-year-old Jacksonville attorney, said in some ways she felt fortunate. Overall, I was very blessed, said Helton, a health care attorney with Smith Hulsey Busey. My firm was very supportive. I had a great insurance prog...
HealthChoice vendor progresses with insurance claims
Unprocessed claims for Oklahoma's insurance plan for state employees and retirees have been reduced to an acceptable level, but the company processing the claims still must improve efficiency and customer service, an official said Friday. T...
Health Insurance Reform and the Public Option
Health insurance reform opponents continue to spread myths about America's Affordable Health Choices Act including what the public insurance option is and how it works. But more than 1,000 state legislators - representing all 50 states - ha...
New York State Health Plans to Deploy Enroll NY for Medicaid Leads
Affinity Health Plan, AmeriChoice by United HealthCare, Fidelis Care New York, Health Plus PHSP, Hudson Health Plan, and Neighborhood Health Providers are now using Enroll NY, and some are finding that 70 percent of the leads they receive a...
CIGNA & CMC Life Enters China's Health Insurance Market
Sino-US life insurer CIGNA CMC Life Insurance Co., Ltd. launched a comprehensive health insurance product in China days ago. It is the first health insurance product the 50-50 joint venture between US-based CIGNA Corp. and China Merchants G...
Health 'reform' that leaves no one accountable
The debate over health-care reform has sparked all sorts of controversy over costs, regulations and choices. But one feature seems to have escaped notice: the built-in lack of accountability of our elected leaders for what health care will b...
CIGNA & CMC Life Enters China's Health Insurance Market
Sino-US life insurer CIGNA CMC Life Insurance Co., Ltd. launched a comprehensive health insurance product in China days ago. It is the first health insurance product the 50-50 joint venture between US-based CIGNA Corp. and China Merchants Gr...
Chicago Tribune David Greising column: Health care reform: Maine's 'meddling' may lead to mending of broken system
In the push to bring a glint of bipartisanship to the impending party-line vote on health care reform, it is beyond ironic that the two hotly desired Republican votes both come from the state of Maine. Maine is, after all, one of only three...
Bennet Leads Colleagues in Back-to-Back Speeches Setting the Record Straight on Health Care Reform Myths
Thursday, October 15, 2009 Contact: Deirdre Murphy - 202-224-5852 Michael Amodeo - 303-249-5286 Bennet Leads Colleagues in Back-to-Back Speeches Setting the Record Straight on Health Care Reform Myths Bennet Discusses How Health Care Reform...
GOP chairman urges caution on health care
Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele spoke extensively about health care, the condition of the party and his vision for the GOP's future Thursday. Steele kicked off the 2009-10 University of Akron Forum Series at E.J. Thoma...
Senate Committee Passes Health Reform, Wins One Republican Vote
The Senate's Finance Committee approved its health care bill, as it was expected to do -- finally putting this fifth congressional version of health reform to the overall Senate. It's a step awaited for months as the health debate has raged...
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