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Americans' Net Worth Grows by $2 trillion in Q2

American households saw their wealth increase this spring for the first time in nearly two years as the waning recession breathed new life into stock portfolios and home values. The Federal Reserve says household net worth grew by $2 trillio...

Avivia Health Brings Out New Suite of Disease Management and Wellness Programs

Avivia Health announced Avivia Select, a new series of Disease Management and Wellness programs specifically designed to help companies provide important new benefits to their employees. In a release, the Company noted that it is the only n...

Urgency For New Rules For Finance Is Slipping Away

all. Tougher financial rules that seemed inevitable after last year's crisis have been stymied by industry lobbying, government turf battles and a stabilizing banking system. If efforts to tighten oversight of the industry fail, some financ...

HighRoads Research Shows Lower Annual Medical Trend as Employers Continue to Tighten Belts in Health Care Costs

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- HighRoads, the company providing employers - for the first time - complete control over their health care costs and compliance, today announced new research data from The Lab, HighRoads' benefits benchmarking tool,...

Workers Pay More For Health Care: Employers Shift Costs Of Insurance Or Reduce Benefits Amid Rising Premiums

About two in 10 employers nationwide have reduced health benefits or increased the amount workers pay for medical coverage this year because of the ailing economy. And this financial squeeze on many working Americans probably won't be endin...

Baucus Releases $856B Health Care Plan

Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., released his healthcare reform package Wednesday that includes a healthcare cooperative and lower costs than other bills. The Senate Finance Committee chairman's 223-page document -- the basis for committee conside...

Tax Hikes in the Baucus Plan

Americans for Tax Reform today released its initial assessment of the healthcare plan outlined by Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.): Individual Mandate Tax. If you don't sign up for health insurance, you will have to pay a tax in the following rang...

Health Premiums Rise 5%, Beating Inflation Again

The average cost of health insurance provided by employers crossed another threshold this year, topping $13,000 for family coverage for the first time, according to a widely followed national survey. The cost of providing health benefits for...

Goldman Sachs Upgrades Aetna, Downgrades Coventry

NEW YORK_A Goldman Sachs analyst upgraded shares of Aetna Inc. Wednesday, saying the health insurer faces little earnings risk in the immediate future, but cut Coventry Health Care Inc. due to its price. Analyst Matthew Borsch swapped his r...

The new numbers - Health Insurance Reform Can not Wait

WASHINGTON - (BUSINESS WIRE) - Health and Social Services, Dr. Kathleen Sebelius today issued a new state by state analysis of census figures last week in the United States regarding the uninsured. The results are sobering and I confirm tha...

AHIP Statement on Release of Finance Committee Chairman's Mark

America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) today issued the following statement from President and CEO Karen Ignagni: Senator Max Baucus has led an unprecedented process of both parties and to adopt rigorous reform health care this year and ch...

Committee Announces Plan for Health-Care Reform

SEN. MAX BAUCUS (D) MONTANA: It reflects months of work and more than a year of preparation by our committee. It represents an effort to reach common ground and a real chance for health-care reform, and it is balanced, a common-sense bill t...

Health Bill Has Steep Hill To Climb; Poll: Obama Speech Didn't Change Minds

WASHINGTON -- President Obama's long, hot summer is about to turn into a chilly fall. A USA TODAY/Gallup Poll taken after the president's dramatic address to a joint session of Congress last week shows Americans almost evenly divided over pa...

Obama care aims to get between patients, doctors

President Barack Obama was on Good Morning America on Wednesday morning talking about his health care proposal. He told Robin Roberts that he has been reaching out to Republicans throughout this year to build a bipartisan bill, but they off...

Georgetown U. students, faculty weigh in on health care

As the tense national dialogue on health care reform continues in the wake of President Obama's Sept. 9 address before Congress on the subject, Georgetown University students, professors and campus groups have joined the fray. The Georgetow...

Panel warns against Obama's proposed health care reform

An assorted panel of doctors and professionals gathered at the Lubbock Municipal Auditorium on Monday in an attempt to answer questions Lubbock residents had about President Obama's health care proposal. Americans for Integrity in Governmen...

Business Roundtable Report Shows Health Care Costs Will Skyrocket to Nearly $29,000 per Employee in the Next Decade Without Effective Reform

A new report released today by Business Roundtable, an association of chief executive officers of leading U.S. companies, finds that annual per employee health care costs will triple to nearly $29,000 over the next decade without significan...