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More Health Care For Less Cost; Pelosi's Promises Are Too Good To Be True
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi explained last week that a new government health care system would provide a cap on your [health care] costs, but no cap on your benefit. Plus, she said on CNN's State of the Union on Sunday, there was an extra bon...
House Ways and Means Committee Reviews Health Reform Proposals
The House Ways and Means Committee conducted a hearing on Health Reform in the 21st Century: Proposals to Reform the Health System, according to a committee notice published in the Congressional Record. The committee received testimony at th...
Healthcare Companies Not Prepared to Manage IT Risks
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act promises massive new opportunities for the health care industry with the widespread adoption and use of electronic health records, but a new study finds the industry is ill-prepared to meet the secu...
Small Businesses Backing Alternative Health Care Legislation
Small businesses have spoken out vociferously against the health care reform plan being considered by Congress - and they're throwing their support behind an alternative proposal - the Shop Act. The current legislation calls for employer man...
Aetna Second-Quarter Profit Drops 28% on Higher Medical Costs in Commercial Health Plans
Net income fell to $346.7 million from $480.5 million the same period a year ago, and included $13.2 million in net realized capital gains. Operating earnings declined even further, 34%, which Aetna blamed on significantly higher medical co...
Small Businesses Face Uphill Battle With Health Insurance Costs
PARK RIDGE, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Small businesses continue to grapple with the costs of providing healthcare to their employees, but the challenge is becoming disastrous for many businesses that are just trying to stay afloat, according t...
Health Care System Can Ill Afford To Continue With Fee-for-Service
WASHINGTON _ Health care reform has run aground on a cost sandbar. There's plenty of controversy about extending health insurance and paying for it with new taxes. The bigger obstacle, however, is the inability of Congress and the Obama admi...
CNN: Senate Leaders Slamming Brakes on Rush to Overhaul Health Care System
Senate leaders are slamming on the brakes in the rush to overhaul the nation's health care system. Interview with Congressman Eric Cantor on health care reform. A business owner whose cafe did not survive the economic downturn recommends sma...
How To Reduce Cost Without Sacrificing Your Health Coverage
With health care premiums increasing across the board, many companies are looking for alternative options to decrease spending without losing employee coverage. Now employers have the option to maintain the quality of coverage for their empl...
Fitch Holds Negative Outlook On Health Insurers
NEW YORK_Fitch Ratings said Friday it is downgrading to a negative outlook for several health insurers, citing concerns over the potential impact of health care reform. The new outlook covers Aetna Inc., Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida, Bl...
Health Care Reform 'Dos And Don'ts'
BOSTON_Three years into its experiment with near-universal health care, Massachusetts has some dos and don'ts for the nation as it grapples with the best way to cover tens of millions of uninsured Americans. Do require that virtually everyon...
House Democrat's Health Care Reform Bill Is a 1,018-Page Nightmare
The Democrats' health care reform bill currently on the floor of the House of Representatives creates a new government-run health plan that will undercut the private market and force as many as 119 million people to lose their private health...
Insurers, Fifth Third Lead Financials To July High
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Financial stocks advanced to their highest levels in more than a month Thursday after a report showed existing-home sales rose more than expected in June, raising hope that the real-estate sector may be on the rebou...
A.M. Best Withdraws Ratings of Senior Health Insurance Company of Pennsylvania
OLDWICK, N.J. - (Business Wire) A.M. Best Co. has affirmed the financial strength rating (FSR) of C (Weak) and issuer credit rating (ICR) of ccc+ of Senior Health Insurance Company of Pennsylvania (SHIP, formerly known as Conseco Senior Heal...
Reid: No Health Care Vote In Senate Until Fall
Senate Democratic leaders on Thursday abandoned plans for a vote on health care before Congress' August recess, dealing a blow to President Barack Obama's ambitious timetable to revamp the nation's $2.4 trillion system of medical care. Senat...
Obama Was Meeting With Health Execs In February
WASHINGTON_President Barack Obama's administration began holding private meetings with health industry executives at the White House a few weeks after he took office, a visitor list released Wednesday night by the White House shows. Lobbyist...
Will Obama's Health Care Plan Mirror The 1994 Clinton Failure?
In 1994, universal health care was a key policy plan for then-President Bill Clinton. It eventually failed. Now, 15 years later, another Democratic president is taking on the challenge, but facing an uphill battle from not only from Republic...
National Survey Shows Consumers Prefer Agents When Shopping for and Purchasing Individual Medical Insurance
MILWAUKEE--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- A recent online survey of more than 1,000 consumers found that those who purchased individual medical (IM) insurance through a professional agent were significantly more satisfied with their health plans than tho...
Obama Turns Health Care Focus To Families, Voters
WASHINGTON_President Barack Obama, who has spent weeks urging lawmakers to embrace his health care agenda at White House meetings, is focusing now on a broader and more distant audience, the American people, whose qualms about his plan seem...
Sen. Demint Issues Statement On President Obama's Rush For Government Takeover Of Health Care
The office of Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., issued the following statement: Today, U.S. Senator Jim DeMint (R-South Carolina) made the following statement: The last time the President made grand promises and demanded passage of a bill before it c...
Fitch: Health Net's Ratings Unchanged Upon Pending Sale of Northeastern Business
CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Fitch Ratings current ratings for Health Net Inc. (NYSE: HNT; Health Net) are unchanged following this week's announcement that the company is selling its northeast operations to UnitedHealth Group, Inc. While Heal...
Source Says Some Democrats Frustrated With Health Bill
As President Obama prepares to address the nation in a primetime news conference, some sources say Democratic grumbling about his plan for health care is growing louder. One Democratic senator told CNN that some congressional Democrats are b...
UnitedHealth Radiates a Healthy Glow
Despite a decrease in commercial enrollment as companies lay off employees and trim benefits, UnitedHealth (UNH:NYSE) more than doubled its profit in the second quarter. Expecting an even healthier future, the company raised the low end of i...
Kaiser Fined For Conduct Violations In Colorado
Kaiser Permanente Insurance Company and Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Colorado have been fined for several conduct violations. Kaiser health plan was fined $201,000, and the insurance company was fined $166,000. The violations were pretty...
Life Sciences & Health Care Companies Unprepared for Information Security Risks
NEW YORK, July 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Bolstered by the promise of the information age, coupled with billions of dollars in economic stimulus funding, life sciences and health care companies still may not meet lofty expectations of maximizing the...
Court Overturns SEC’s Annuities Rule, but Gives Agency Leeway to Re-establish It
U.S. Court of Appeals overturned Rule 151A, sending it back to the Securities and Exchange Commission to examine its effect on the market but the judges supported the rule itself. The three-judge court decision in American Equity vs. Securi...
What Health Reform Means For You
Lawmakers are still far from consensus on how to fix the health care system. So it's too soon to know exactly what reform would mean for individual Americans. But a picture has started to emerge from two key bills put out by Democrats in the...
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Hempfield Area School District bus drivers propose
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Doctors Oppose Government-Run Health Coverage
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UnitedHealth Lands $21.8B Military Health Care
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