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Sunday, 07 September 2008 |
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When you require to acquire quotes on health insurance, Texas offers you great number of insurance quote providers. While you can get quotes from local companies or agencies, the best source is the Internet. |
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Monday, 01 September 2008 |
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Getting a fine health insurance rate isn’t typically the most popular discussion topic around the water cooler. Most people would rather talk about football, their kids, or…pretty much something. However, it is much more essential than some people realize. |
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Thursday, 15 May 2008 |
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Health Insurance is imperative for your daily savings and expenses. One can fall ill at any unexpected time, causing misery and most importantly, if you are not covered with any health insurance policy, it can prove to be quite expensive on the pocket. Economy is bad these days. |
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Saturday, 12 April 2008 |
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Thanks to the Internet, it’s simple to find a wealth of meaningful info online; thousands of sites offer to sell you an affordable health insurance plan with just one or 2 clicks. This means that buying a health insurance plan for you, your family or your business is simpler than ever. |
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Friday, 11 April 2008 |
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Florida Gov. Charlie Crist (R) is traveling through the state touting his offer that seeks to provide health coverage to up to 3.8 million uninsured residents, the Miami Herald reports. |
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Friday, 11 April 2008 |
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Legislation being considered by Maine lawmakers would place a 1.8% fixed yearly fee on claims paid by health insurers to help fund the state's DirigoChoice health insurance program, the Portland Press Herald reports. The program is expected to run out of funding in February 2009. |
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Friday, 11 April 2008 |
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Elizabeth Edwards, wife of former Democratic presidential candidate and former Sen. John Edwards (N.C.), on Wednesday said she prefers the health care plan proposed by Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.), the AP/Winston-Salem Journal reports. |
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Thursday, 10 April 2008 |
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Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) on Tuesday said before an audience of hospital executives that Democrats in Congress will not be able to overhaul the U.S. health care system if they are successful in the fall elections, CQ HealthBeat reports. |
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Thursday, 10 April 2008 |
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"Are the Uninsured Responsible for the Rise in Emergency Department Visits in the United States? |
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Thursday, 10 April 2008 |
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"While the success of" the Massachusetts health insurance rule "is not sure," the state "should be proud of accomplishing so much, so rapidly," a Boston Globe editorial states. |
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Thursday, 10 April 2008 |
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The present wage slowdown in the U.S. has many causes and has "been building for a long time," and in recent years, the "cost of health care has aggravated the complication by taking a massive bite out of most workers' paychecks," columnist David Leonhardt writes in the New York Times. |
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Thursday, 10 April 2008 |
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Texas Health and Human Services Executive Commissioner Albert Hawkins has announced that a plan to provide health coverage to about 482,000 uninsured parents whose children are enrolled in Medicaid or SCHIP will not start this fall as planned, the Austin American-Statesman reports. |
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Thursday, 10 April 2008 |
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The Iowa Senate on Monday voted 42-6 to endorse a bill (HF 2539) that would enlarge Hawk-I coverage to tens of thousands more children, the Des Moines Register reports. Hawk-I is the state's version of SCHIP. |
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Thursday, 10 April 2008 |
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In 2002, a groundbreaking national study by the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences demonstrated the direct link between a lack of health coverage and deaths from health-related causes. |
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Wednesday, 09 April 2008 |
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MEGA Life and Health Insurance, a subsidiary of HealthMarkets, has agreed to pay a $1 million great imposed by the Maine Bureau of Insurance and the Maine Attorney General to settle a lawsuit that alleged the insurer used a flawed way to determine premiums for individual health insurance policies,... |
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Wednesday, 09 April 2008 |
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Missouri Republican House leaders have introduced legislation that would develop health coverage to low-income state residents and require beneficiaries to contribute money to savings accounts to use toward deductibles and copayments, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports. |
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Tuesday, 08 April 2008 |
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The Kentucky General Assembly on Wednesday permitted a bill (HB 440) that would require health insurers to permit parents to keep unmarried children on their health plans until age 25, the Louisville Courier-Journal reports. Parents would have to pay extra to keep adult children on their plans. |
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Tuesday, 08 April 2008 |
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An Institute of Medicine committee review released Friday at an Alliance for Health Reform forum that examined the process of comparing the effectiveness of alternative treatments recommended that Congress make a semi-private government agency to centralize such studies, CQ HealthBeat reports. |
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Tuesday, 08 April 2008 |
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Massachusetts' health insurance rule has had the "unintended consequence" of exacerbating the "imbalance" between supply and demand for primary care physicians, the New York Times reports. |
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Tuesday, 08 April 2008 |
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that almost $36 million will be distributed to State Health Insurance Assistance Programs (SHIPs) to help people with Medicare get more info about their health care choices. |
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Monday, 07 April 2008 |
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Maine Gov. John Baldacci (D) on Tuesday announced that he supports a proposed 50-cent-per-pack cigarette tax increase to fund the state Dirigo Health program, Blethen Maine/Portland Press Herald reports. |
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Monday, 07 April 2008 |
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House leaders should "act fast and endorse" the Indian Health Care Improvement Act reauthorization bill "so that we can send this bill to the president and provide the quality health care that [American Indians] in California and around the nation need and deserve," Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif. |
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Monday, 07 April 2008 |
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Elizabeth Edwards, wife of former Democratic presidential candidate and former Sen. John Edwards (N.C.), last week "frankly pointed out" that neither she, who has cancer, nor presumptive Republican nominee Sen. John McCain (Ariz. |
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Monday, 07 April 2008 |
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The economic burden of providing health insurance for workers increased more for little businesses than for large ones from 2000 to 2005, but the spike did not cause a essential number of little employers to abandon the benefit, according to a study issued by the RAND Corporation. |
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Monday, 07 April 2008 |
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Nearly 3 people die each day in North Carolina since they don't have health insurance, says a new report by Families USA, the national organization for health care customers. |
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Monday, 07 April 2008 |
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"The Economic Burden of Providing Health Insurance: How Much Worse Off Are Small Firms? |
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Saturday, 05 April 2008 |
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The World Health Care Congress is the premier forum for health care executives to explore a myriad of emerging issues and to network with key leaders. |
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Friday, 04 April 2008 |
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The New York state Senate on Tuesday agreed legislation that would allocate about $59.2 billion -- or almost half of the $124 billion state budget proposed for fiscal year 2009 -- for health care, the New York Times reports (Peters, New York Times, 4/2). |
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Friday, 04 April 2008 |
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The Pennsylvania House on Tuesday voted 131-72 to endorse legislation (HB 2005) that would limit the capability of insurers to consider certain factors, like health history, when setting rates for health plans offered to individuals and little businesses, the Pittsburg Post-Gazette reports. |
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Friday, 04 April 2008 |
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Large health insurers will "shed light on the state of the industry -- and whether it has entered a potentially lengthy downturn" -- when they release their first-quarter financial results later this month, Dow Jones reports. |
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