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What is consumer-directed coverage? - Questions About Health Insurance
Consumer-directed health plans allow individuals and families to have greater control over their health care, including when and how they access care, what types of care they receive, and how much they spend on health care services. The maj... -
Which type of health insurance is right for you?- Questions About Health Insurance
Whether you are eligible for group insurance or choosing an individual plan, you should carefully compare costs and coverage. Be sure to compare: 1. Premiums. 2. Coverage/benefits. 3. Access to doctors, hospitals, and other providers. 4. Ac... -
How do you get health insurance? - Questions About Health Insurance
Most people get health insurance through their employers or organizations to which they belong. This is called group insurance. Some people do not have access to group insurance. They may choose to purchase their own individual health insur... -
Why do you need health insurance? - Questions About Health Insurance
As medical care advances and treatments increase, health care costs also increase. The purpose of health insurance is to help you pay for care. It protects you and your family financially in the event of an unexpected serious illness or inj... -
Can a Public Insurance Plan Increase Competition and Lower the Costs of Health Reform?
Senator Barack Obama has proposed having a public plan available to those seeking coverage in a purchasing arrangement, such as the Federal Employees Health Benefits Plan. Senators Hillary Clinton and John Edwards had similar proposals. In t... -
America's Health Insurance Plans' Statement On National Committee For Quality Assurance's State Of He
America's Health Insurance Plans issued the following statement about a new report issued by the National Committee for Quality Assurance: No segment within health care is more committed to quality and quality improvement than the community... -
Senate Democrats Mull State 'Opt Out' Public Health Option as Compromise
Senate Democrats focused Thursday on a potential compromise on a government-run public'' health insurance option that would create a national plan but let states opt out if they chose. The compromise, designed to resolve one of the most con... -
RLI to Extend Its Non-Profit Healthcare Liability Coverage
RLI Corp. has announced a new non-profit healthcare organization and executive liability policy, which will include expanded coverage and simplified policy language. Our contract will be shorter - more concise - which should alleviate a maj... -
Harris County Healthcare Alliance to Provide Affordable Healthcare to Uninsured Small Business Employ
The Harris County Healthcare Alliance, together with UnitedHealthcare and Community Health Choice, has launched the TexHealth Harris County 3-Share Plan, designed to offer affordable health benefits for uninsured employees of small business... -
Hatch, Kennedy two of America's Best Leaders, says U.S. News
U.S. News World Report has named Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch and his late friend Sen. Ted Kennedy, of Massachusetts, as two of America's Best Leaders for their willingness to work across the partisan divide on key pieces of legislation. They join... -
Minnesota Governor Proposes Interstate Health Compact
Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty is pitching the idea of a 50-state health insurance compact in a letter to his fellow governors. Pawlenty said such an entity would be modeled after the Interstate Insurance Product Regulation Commission. The pro... -
Health Care Groups Lobby At Record Pace; $130M Spent On Television Ads This Year
WASHINGTON -- The drug and insurance industries have dramatically amped up their efforts to lobby Congress, spending millions over a three-month period to influence legislation aimed at reshaping the nation's health care system, new reports... -
RLI to Expand Healthcare Liability Coverage
Illinois-based RLI announced a new non-profit healthcare organization and executive liability policy, which will include expanded coverage and simplified policy language. Our contract will be shorter more concise � which should alleviate... -
Healthcare Battle Turns to Antitrust Law for Malpractice, Health Insurers
Democrats in Congress moved Wednesday to repeal the health insurance industry's exemption from antitrust laws, cranking up the pressure in a growing battle over President Barack Obama's healthcare reform plans. The moves were the latest cha... -
Group Seeks Answers For Retirement 'Crisis'; High Jobless Rate Intensifies Issues
When Vise-Grip closed its plant last year in DeWitt, Neb., and moved it to China, Anita Oltmans lost her job. With no job, federal law prevented her from continuing to contribute to her 401(k) plan. She watched her account spiral down as th... -
Unhealthy Health Savings Accounts
To the millions of aging workers sweating the prospect that health care costs could wreck them financially later in life, health savings accounts are something of a godsend. Established under the Medicare Act of 2003, they enable families t... -
Health Bill Gun Claim A Wild Shot
The statement The Baucus health care bill could be used to ban guns in home self-defense. - Gun Owners of America in an Oct. 9 alert to members The ruling: FALSE In the last few weeks, Gun Owners of America has sent out several action alert... -
Economy swallows benefits as well as jobs
Many people lose their health insurance when they lose their jobs, and during the first eight months of the year this was true in few states more than it was in Alabama, according to a new report. The report by Families USA, a nonprofit hea... -
Two Republicans Face Off in Wilson District for Supervisor Position
ABINGDON, Va. -- After a contentious nomination process earlier this year, two Republicans -- one now running as an independent -- are vying for the Wilson District seat on the Washington County Board of Supervisors. Vernon Smith, a U.S. Ai... -
Council seeks agreement on health-care cost reduction settlement with ex-CFO
The City Council is grappling with a plan to cut employee health -care costs by $500,000, a reduction the council already approved as part of the 2010 budget that took effect Oct. 1. The administration proposes saving the money by increasin...
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Tap Retirement Funds Penalty-Fr
Copyright 2009 Investor's Business Daily, Inc.All Rights Reserved Investor's Business Daily June 1, 2009... -
Health Plans awaiting verdict i
(BestWire Services Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Health plans expect to hear a final decision on 6 April... -
Getting Older, but working long
Copyright: The News-Sentinel, Fort Wayne, Ind. Source: News-Sentinel, The (Fort Wayne, IN) Wordcount:... -
High-Deductible Health Plans Of
Study finds that high-deductible health plans are increasingly used by healthy people who are unlikely... -
Milliman Survey Says Dominate V
Copyright: PR Newswire Source: PR Newswire Wordcount: 753 SEATTLE, March 31 / PRNewswire / - Milliman... -
Aetna’s CEO Williams Tops Ind
HARTFORD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Aetna's (NYSE: AET) Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Ronald A.... -
UnitedHealth Lands $21.8B Milit
UnitedHealth Group revenue from government programs is about to get much bigger. The Minnetonka health... -
Investment Fund Files Suit MBIA
The Delaware Chancery Court is requested to cancel an agreement facilitated by the New York State Insurance... -
Axa Event Panelists Express Hop
Investors, financial-services companies and policymakers face plenty of uncertainties, given the unusual... -
Beacon's Fixed Annuity Premium
Results Set a Record for the Fourth Consecutive Quarter Evanston, IL, May 27, 2009 U.S. sales of fixed...
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Aetna CEO Ronald A. Williams' 2
Apr. 23--Aetna Inc. Chief Executive Ronald A. Williams got $3.14 million in compensation for 2008 and... -
UnitedHealth, Aetna Win TRICARE
WASHINGTON, Jul 14, 2009 (A. M. Best via COMTEX)--UnitedHealth Group Inc. Aetna Inc. were awarded contracts... -
Seniors Defend Targeted Health
WASHINGTON -- One of the largest spending cuts Congress could rely on to pay for an overhaul of the nation's... -
Class-Action Suit Says Nationwi
A proposed class-action lawsuit has been filed against Nationwide Life Insurance Co. alleging the company... -
NAIC Members: Prescription For
Lost in the din of this summers health care debates is one important fact: there is a strong consensus... -
What is the Actual Number of Am
CNN has a fascinating post today on a question I've pondered in this space in the past: How many Americans... -
Mass Health Course at: As Obama
Copyright: The Philadelphia Inquirer Source: Philadelphia Inquirer, The Wordcount: 1578 Mar. 31--BOSTON... -
HealthMarkets, Subsidiaries Ban
HealthMarkets Inc. and two subsidiaries have settled a lawsuit by the Massachusetts attorney general that... -
MetLife maintains SEC indexed a
20 March 2009 By Steven A. Morelli, editor MetLife asked to file a brief in support of the Securities... -
Pennsylvania Governor Rendell s
Three bills are part of the Governor's order for Pennsylvania Camp Hill, Pennsylvania, July 1 / PRNewswire-USNewswire... -
Blue Cross and Blue Shield High
Copyright 2009 Targeted News Service LLCAll Rights Reserved Targeted News Service April 22, 2009 Wednesday... -
Ingenix Acquires AIM Healthcare
EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. FRANKLIN, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Ingenix, a leading health information, technology...
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