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Waukesha seeks employee pay freeze
Waukesha's proposed 2010 budget would avoid significant service cuts and employee layoffs, provided the city's labor unions agree to new contracts with a one-year pay freeze. The budget plan, which City Administrator Lori Curtis Luther will...
Public Support for Health Reform Increases in September, Reversing Summer Declines as Congress Takes Up Legislation
Survey Finds Support for New Proposals for Fees and Taxes on Insurance Companies to Help Pay for Overhaul Public support for health reform ended its summer slide, reversed course and moved modestly upwards in September, according to the lat...
Teachers' health cost stays same in Hawaii: Fund keeps rates flat for HMA, Kaiser while other state workers pay more
Most public school teachers will pay the same for health care coverage this fiscal year under a new contract, while other state workers have been paying higher premium rates since July and have sought relief in contract talks with the state...
Census reveals recession damage in Victor Valley: Residents deal with longer commutes, lower incomes, less health insurance
The recession has taken its toll on local cities, according to data released this week by the U.S. Census Bureau, widening the gap between Victor Valley residents and the average Californian. Victor Valley residents deal with longer commute...
If Time is Money, Then Many Americans Could Save More on Health Care
How much time does the average person spend reviewing their health care insurance when it's time to enroll or reenroll in a plan? A recent survey conducted for CIGNA shows that although 78 percent said they give it a lot or some considerati...
Fear of change hurts health-care reform support: Most Americans like the idea - for others, experts say
During last year's presidential campaign, polls showed that most Americans wanted the new president to reform the nation's health-care system. The evidence is overwhelming: 47 million people are uninsured, health-care costs continue to clim...
Hempfield Area School District health care fight settled
Teachers and maintenance workers in the Hempfield Area School District have won their legal challenge of a school board bid to change the way health care claims are handled. Arbitrator Marc Winters has sided with the employees in their batt...
Dems Get Ugly In Health-care Reform Push
The health-care reform debate has taken on ugly undertones, and we're not talking about raucous town hall meetings in August. There has been an effort to enlist the arts community as a propaganda arm of the White House; a heavy-handed slappi...
If Health Care Reform Stalls, Millions Will Lose
WHAT WENT WRONG in the drive to pass comprehensive health care reform legislation? While three House committees have approved measures, not a single Republican cast a vote in favor. When the traditionally bipartisan Senate Finance Committee...
My Insurance Expert Launches Health Insurance Website for University Students
TROY, Mich.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- My Insurance Expert, one of the nation leading online services to compare and secure affordable health insurance, has launched an unbiased QA overview specifically for college students. Health insurance can be...
A Clunker Of A Health Care Plan
Well, maybe not love, but certainly like -- especially since the draft plan by Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus takes its cue about how to pay for expanded health insurance from a tax policy that Bush and other Republicans pushed...
Commissioner of Insurance Urges Health Carriers to Plan for H1N1 Vaccinations
The coming influenza season is expected to be challenging, especially due to the potential for pandemic H1N1 influenza A to cause widespread disease. Because coordinated efforts by all sectors will help to minimize the impact of influenza on...
Health Reform Could Get You Hired
In the debate over healthcare reform, references to outcomes mostly have to do with patients. But the impending overhaul of the health insurance system may lead to very different outcomes in employment. That's because health insurance cover...
Medibank eyes prevention as a cure for stretched budgets
Medibank Private plans to expand its operations in the health care management field. The Australian Government-owned health insurer has made two acquisitions over the last year and plans to make more. A priority is the expansion of its Tota...
Suitable Study: Health Care Insurance Costs Soaring
Connecticut employers have seen their health insurance premium costs rise 135 percent over the past decade, the fourth-highest increase in the nation, according to a new Kaiser Family Foundation report being highlighted by the White House as...
Biden Backs Commissioners' Role in Health Reform, Cites White House Report on Premiums
Vice President Joe Biden told state insurance commissioners they will continue to play a critical role in consumer protection and industry oversight under any national health care reform legislation. In remarks at the National Association o...
CMS - the first traditional premium finance conference in Las Vegas as an overwhelming success
Recently CMS - Succession Capital hosted the first ever Traditional Premium Financing Conference in Las Vegas. The premium financing marketplace has changed over the course of the last few years, states Julian Movsesian, President of CMS -...
Vice President Joe Biden Addresses NAIC On Health Care Reform
Addressing a standing room only audience, Vice President Joe Biden discussed the Administrations health care proposal and the need to create a level playing field in the insurance industry. Calling the national dialogue a legitimate debate,...
NAMIC Calls for Focused Financial Services Regulatory Reform
The National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies (NAMIC) called on members of the House Financial Services Committee to target the regulatory failures that led to the financial crisis as they take up financial services regulatory refo...
BlueCross, Cigna Back To Slow Health Care Baucus Legislation
U.S. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus' decision to eliminate a public option from a health care overhaul doesn't mean insurers such as Chattanooga-based BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee now are clamoring to get aboard the bill....
GOP Raps MNE to stifle insurers on Medicare
WASHINGTON_Republican legislators criticized Obama Tuesday for saying the health insurance companies to stop warning elderly clients they will lose benefits of health care legislation, which some likened to a gag order. At least one leading...
Florida residents are fleeing to other countries, and millions lack health insurance
ORLANDO, Fla. _ Reflecting hard economic times, census figures this week show that there's an exodus of people leaving Florida, that a sizable segment of the state's population lacks health insurance and that many families live in multigene...
Senate Committee Finally Digs Into Health Reform Language
The Senate Finance Committee -- the final of five congressional committees that must pass a health reform bill -- has started marking up the proposal presented by Sen. Max Baucus, its chairman. Baucus, D-Mont, tried to produce a bipartisan...
Millions of Uninsured Americans Need Healthcare Reform
Following is an op-ed by Dr. Henrie M. Treadwell, director of Community Voices: The uproar at this summer's raucous town hall meetings, Rep. Joe Wilson's outburst in Congress and the endless debate over whether some opposition to healthcare...
Proud owners of companies, changes in health insurance
ON HAPPINESS: Business owners are the happiest Americans, according to a recent survey. Those working in manufacturing are the least satisfied. The Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index found that business owners scored highest, with 72.5, in...
American Pulse: 4 in 5 Americans say Recession Not Over, Healthcare Reform more socialist than capitalist
An overwhelming majority of Americans appear to disagree with Fed Chairman Bernanke's statement that the recession is 'likely over' as 78% say it isn't, according to the latest American Pulse Survey of 6,976 Americans. 76% of Democrats, 84%...
Health insurer WellPoint May Cut Jobs and more
INDIANAPOLIS_Health insurer WellPoint said Tuesday it may trim some more jobs as part of a push to become more efficient next year. The Indianapolis-based insurer said in an e-mailed statement it reviews the size and skill of its workforce...
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