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Calif. Governor Vetoes Strict Anti-Rescissions Bill
In a win for health insurance companies, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed a bill that would have required proof that a policyholder intended to deceive before an insurer could retroactively cancel a policy. The bill would have p...
N.Y. Insurance Company Ends Program Rather Than Pay Out Big
Ian Pearl has fought for his life every day of his 37 years. Confined to a wheelchair and hooked to a breathing tube, the muscular dystrophy victim refuses to give up. But his insurance company already has. Legally barred from discriminating...
Kaiser Permanente Highlights Best Practices for Keeping Employees Healthy at National Business Group on Health's Premier Conference
Kaiser Permanente and Avivia Health co-sponsored a plenary session today at the National Business Group on Health's 23rd National Conference on Health, Productivity and Human Capital, highlighting effective strategies employers can use to p...
External Evidence-Based Reviews Keep Healthcare System Vital
IROs exist to help the integrity of the healthcare system says NAIRO (www.nairo.org), a trade organization of independent review organizations (IROs). As an objective participant in the healthcare process, IRO physicians can deliver determi...
P/C Insurers Weigh in on Bills to Eliminate Health Insurers Antitrust Exemption
Property/casualty organizations have gathered forces to send a critical letter to judiciary-committee lawmakers in the House and Senate, arguing against legislative efforts to eliminate antitrust exemptions for a different sector of the ins...
Foot soldiers square off in health-care battle
With a balmy fall breeze, blue skies overhead, and a nicely coalescing crowd of Center City lunchgoers, protesters, television camera crews, and reporters, it couldn't have been a nicer day to get locked up. Well, maybe getting locked up Tue...
Landrieu: Health Costs Are Crushing Small Businesses
WASHINGTON - The following op-ed was published today in the Wall Street Journal by U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship Chair, Mary L. Landrieu, D-La. Newspapers and online news sites are invited to reprint it: Healt...
Milam to discuss health care issues
The president of the Illinois State Medical Society will be updating Jefferson and Hamilton County Medical Society members on the progress of the national health care reform next week. Dr. James Milam, who will be in the King City Thursday,...
Hare talks health care reform with seniors
Greg Wilburn, 58, is a school bus driver; his wife Linda, 57, is a part-time cashier at Bergner's. They're semi-retired and pay $500 a month for their health insurance, which has an annual deductible of $5,100. That's $11,200 they must pay...
UT-Houston poll finds add-ons that would help health bill deal
A compromise on health care reform could be achieved if two specific changes were to be made in the Senate Finance Committee bill, according to a University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston poll. The poll found that support for the...
Citing 'Significant' U.S. Share Base, Aviva to List on NYSE
Pointing to its significant U.S. shareholder base of more than 20% of its total shareholders, U.K.-based insurer Aviva plc announced it will list on the New York Stock Exchange. The move, which will take effect on Oct. 20, will also strength...
Key Health Care Vote Set for Tuesday
The Senate Finance Committee will vote on its long-awaited health care bill next Tuesday, Majority Leader Harry Reid announced on the Senate floor Thursday. On Wednesday, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimated that the amended...
CARDIN CALLS FOR GENDER EQUITY IN HEALTH CARE REFORM, APPLAUDS WOMEN SENATORS FOR THEIR LEADERSHIP ON THIS ISSUE
CARDIN CALLS FOR GENDER EQUITY IN HEALTH CARE REFORM, APPLAUDS WOMEN SENATORS FOR THEIR LEADERSHIP ON THIS ISSUE Washington, DC - U.S. Senator Benjamin L. Cardin (D-MD), today voiced his support for reform legislation aimed at ending the bi...
Mandated health insurance threatens freedom, privacy
Politicians, lobbyists and activists have made all sorts of claims about the health care reform plans now taking shape in Washington. What many of these claims indicate is that they haven't read or don't understand the legislation. But it i...
Anti-immigrant sentiment on health care shouldn't be heeded
Democrats should stop pandering to the anti-immigrant crowd on health care. Senate Finance Committee Chair Max Baucus, D-Mont., is trying to impose additional paperwork on Americans seeking health insurance. He is also trying to effectively...
Our Health: Acupuncture, herbology linked
Mary Tobin is comfortable talking about how she became a specialist in Oriental medicine. That's what the State of California calls someone licensed in acupuncture, she said. And in my opinion it's a systemic approach to health and wellness...
Mayor: Immigrants Would Overwhelm Health Care System
Oct. 2--Offering health insurance to legal immigrants, as the president proposes, will lead to more immigration and more strain on health providers, Hazleton Mayor Lou Barletta said. Imagine how many will come to American if they can get fre...
California Life Insurer Seized by State After Years of Losses
Citing continued operating losses, the California Department of Insurance took over Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Co. and ordered it to discontinue selling new policies immediately. Golden State management did not oppose the conservati...
Who Is Looking Out For Women's Health?
The adage that the hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world has not been manifest in discussions of health care reform. For all we say about caring for women and children, women get the short end of the stick where medical...
Sen. Bob Casey To "Fight Hard" For Some Health Care Changes
Oct. 2--U.S. Sen. Bob Casey promised Thursday to fight hard for a government-run public option to compete with private health insurance plans as Congress works on health care reform. Speaking to a conference call of supporters of two liberal...
House Dem Says Republicans Want Sick People 'To Die Quickly'
Rep. Alan Grayson, D-Fla., resisted GOP calls Wednesday to apologize for saying Republicans want you to die quickly if you get sick. The freshman congressman said the statement, which he made in brief remarks Tuesday night on the House floor...
HEALTH CARE UNDER REPUBLICAN RULE: HIGHER COSTS, MORE BANKRUPTCIES, LESS COVERAGE
Republicans controlled the White House for eight years and both the White House and Congress for six years - they never undertook any serious legislation to reform health care. As a result, costs soared, bankruptcies due to medical costs ju...
Coventry Health Care Sets Date to Release 3Q 2009 Financial Results
Coventry Health Care, Inc. has announced that it will release third quarter 2009 financial results on Friday, October 30. Allen Wise, Coventry's Chief Executive Officer, will be hosting a conference call at 8:30 a.m. ET on that day. To list...
Private Health Insurance Decline Problematic According to Mark Farrah Associates
Private insurance, as a percentage of total population, dropped to 67% in 2008, from 70% in 1998 and has been steadily declining for the last five years. Employment-based coverage fell from 62% to 58% during the same period. Moreover, data f...
NAIC Reviews UCR Rates In Health Insurance
To better understand how usual, customary and reasonable (UCR) rates are determined and disclosed to consumers in health insurance, the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) held a public hearing of the Health Insurance and...
Board approves reduced budget for Akron schools: Fiscal outline is 3 percent less than last year, includes $8 million in federal stimulus money
The Akron school board agreed today to spend nearly $300 million for operations this fiscal year -- about 3 percent less than last year, thanks mostly to layoffs from the closure of five schools last year. However, that budget includes abou...
Citizens group backs Walker budget
A citizens group that lays claim to lighting the fire that resulted in the recalls of seven Milwaukee County supervisors launched a new effort Monday to pressure the County Board to accept a zero-tax-increase budget for 2010. Citizens... Ci...
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