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Mandatory Health Insurance for Great Falls and Helena Students Stirring Up Mixed Emotions (KFBB Great Falls)
Posted: March 22nd, 2010, 11:43am EDT
There are big changes in store for students at Montana State University-College of Technology in Great Falls and the University of Montana-College of Technology in Helena. Starting in the fall, all students will be required to have health insurance, and that is stirring up mixed emotions on campus. -
FLORIDA INVESTIGATORS UNCOVER EVIDENCE OF PIP AUTO INSURANCE FRAUD AT HEALTH CLINIC (dBusinessNews.com)
Posted: March 22nd, 2010, 11:37am EDT
MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. -- For an inside look as to how a health clinic can rip off car insurance companies and drivers, look to Orlando. -
Illinois Outlines Expected Changes Resulting from Health Insurance Reform (Insurance Journal)
Posted: March 22nd, 2010, 11:27am EDT
The Illinois Department of Insurance has developed a "Top Ten" list of changes to the performance, transparency and accountability of health insurers and health insurance products in Illinois ... -
The Death of Small Health and Dental Insurance Companies? (Nightly Business Report)
Posted: March 22nd, 2010, 10:50am EDT
No piece of legislation as complex as the health care reform bill can avoid a whole variety of unintended consequences. Elsewhere, I and others have noted that a provision in the law appears to create strong incentives for businesses not to hire poorer, single mothers who will need subsidies to afford family-covering health insurance. Among the other unintended consequences of the health care ... -
Sector Snap: Health insurance stocks muted (AP via Yahoo! Finance)
Posted: March 22nd, 2010, 10:13am EDT
Health insurance investors gave a muted response to the Sunday night passage of health care reform by the House of Representatives, as shares of the top insurers rose slightly in Monday morning trading. -
Utah's health insurance coverage rate slips (Provo Daily Herald)
Posted: March 22nd, 2010, 9:05am EDT
SALT LAKE CITY — Utah health officials say more than 300,000 residents were without medical insurance last year. That changed little from the year before — the uninsured rate climbed by only a tenth of a percentage point to 10.8 in 2009. Insurance coverage figures went opposite ways for adult and children. Health authorities say 10 percent more adults went without insurance last year. But the ... -
Utah's health insurance coverage rate slips slightly (KSL Salt Lake City)
Posted: March 22nd, 2010, 8:54am EDT
Utah health officials say more than 300,000 residents were without medical insurance last year. -
Health Insurance Rate Hikes: eHealthInsurance Answers Questions From Consumers Facing Premium Increases (Marketwire)
Posted: March 22nd, 2010, 7:18am EDT
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA--(Marketwire - March 22, 2010) - Individual health insurance rate hikes have recently come under intense scrutiny from lawmakers and many consumers may be wondering how they can maintain their health insurance while keeping their budget in check. eHealthInsurance ( NASDAQ : EHTH ), the leading online source of health insurance for individuals, families and small businesses ... -
Transcript of Obama's Remarks on the Passage of Health Insurance Reform (Fox News)
Posted: March 22nd, 2010, 6:48am EDT
The following are remarks made by President Obama shortly before midnight Sunday after the House narrowly passed the Democrats' landmark health insurance reform bill. -
Health insurance reform legislation: Speaker Nancy Pelosi's remarks on the House floor (News-Medical-Net)
Posted: March 22nd, 2010, 6:46am EDT
Speaker Nancy Pelosi spoke on the House floor tonight in support of historic health insurance reform legislation. The House passed the Senate version of health insurance reform legislation by a vote of 219 to 212. That bill now goes to the President for his signature into law. A second bill, to improve the Senate bill, passed by a vote of 220 to 211 and goes to the Senate. Below are the Speaker ... -
Tester says state hit with health insurance rate hikes (Sidney Herald)
Posted: March 20th, 2010, 4:47am EDT
Challenging members of Congress opposed to reforming health care, U.S. Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., on Thursday shared “startling news” about dramatic health insurance rate increases set to hit Montana families. -
More area residents have health insurance (Temple Daily Telegram)
Posted: March 20th, 2010, 12:08am EDT
Bell County area residents are more likely to have health insurance than other Texans and other Americans, as well, according to various official sources. -
Etheridge will vote in favor of health insurance bill (The News & Observer)
Posted: March 19th, 2010, 9:57pm EDT
Forces for and against the health insurance bill are ending the week with a whirl of activity before the expected Sunday vote in the U.S. House vote. -
Blog Captures Voices of Small Businesses Suffering From High Health Insurance Premium Increases (redOrbit)
Posted: March 19th, 2010, 7:14pm EDT
New Commonwealth Business Health blog launched by Enterprise Center SALEM, Mass., March 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Enterprise Center at Salem State College has launched the Commonwealth Business Health Blog for small businesses to share their experiences and views on the impact of double digit health insurance premium increases on Massachusetts' small businesses. -
Dems try sweetening health bill with insurance subsidies, rebate (New Haven Register)
Posted: March 19th, 2010, 1:46pm EDT
Associated Press WASHINGTON — Historic health care change in the balance, Democrats plowed fresh billions of dollars into insurance subsidies for consumers on Thursday and added a $250 rebate for seniors facing high prescription drugs, last-minute sweeteners to sweeping $940 billion legislation headed for a climactic weekend vote. -
Health care reform bill 101: Who must buy insurance? (The Christian Science Monitor)
Posted: March 19th, 2010, 11:38am EDT
In an attempt to de-mystify the health care reform bill now before Congress, the Monitor takes a look at what is in it and how it might affect you. First, we look at the new requirement to buy health insurance. -
Insurance-rate regulation dropped from latest health bill (McClatchy Newspapers via Yahoo! News)
Posted: March 18th, 2010, 4:35pm EDT
WASHINGTON — A Democratic plan for new federal power over health insurance rates was dropped Thursday from the final health care bill, squeezed out by the way the Democrats are pushing the bill through Congress. -
AP sources: Insurance watchdog not in health bill (AP via Yahoo! News)
Posted: March 18th, 2010, 2:54pm EDT
Democratic aides say President Barack Obama's plan for a watchdog agency with power to roll back excessive premium hikes by insurance companies has been dropped from the latest version of the health care bill. -
City health insurance coverage switches to Blue Cross Blue Shield (Laurel Outlook)
Posted: March 10th, 2010, 5:14pm EST
The Laurel City Council approved the recommendation of the Health Insurance Committee to change insurance carriers from MMIA to Blue Cross Blue Shield with some reservations during their regular meeting on Tuesday, March 2. -
Insurance Regulation Expert Calls for Freeze of Health Rates Until 'Prior Approval' Regulation Is Adopted (redOrbit)
Posted: March 10th, 2010, 4:43pm EST
WASHINGTON, March 10 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Harvey Rosenfield, author of California's landmark insurance regulation Proposition 103--recognized as the most successful insurance regulation in the country--was joined today by people struggling to pay for health insurance in calling on President Obama and Congress to impose a national freeze on health insurance rates as part of the final round ... -
Regents OK Workers' Health Insurance Audit (CBS 46 News Atlanta)
Posted: March 10th, 2010, 4:39pm EST
The University System of Georgia hopes to save up to $4 million by auditing employees' health insurance coverage. -
Jonathan Richards: The Wolves of Health Insurance (The Huffington Post)
Posted: March 10th, 2010, 1:59pm EST
The Health Insurance industry pours millions into an ad campaign to convince the public that its rate hikes and profiteering are good for you. Who... -
University System to audit employees for ineligible dependents on health insurance (Rome News-Tribune)
Posted: March 10th, 2010, 1:23pm EST
ATLANTA - The University System of Georgia is launching an audit of every employee’s health-insurance dependent coverage in hopes of saving nearly $5 million. The system’s Board of Regents voted... -
Health insurance: Understanding when you have to pay (CNNMoney.com via Yahoo! Finance)
Posted: March 10th, 2010, 12:08pm EST
For people who have health insurance, the level of fine print is rising along with the costs. -
Taiwan's health insurance system stirs up political storm (Channel NewsAsia)
Posted: March 10th, 2010, 10:45am EST
TAIPEI: Taiwan's health insurance system may have earned international acknowledgement, but it's now stirring up a political storm after the health minister left in a surprise resignation. -
Barack Obama comes to town hoping to sell health insurance overhaul (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
Posted: March 10th, 2010, 3:26am EST
March 8, 2010 - President Barack Obama speaks about health care reform at Arcadia University in Glenside, Pa. (Charles Dharapak/AP) WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama will try to rally a skeptical public behind his health insurance overhaul in a speech in St. Charles today that may remind Missourians of Obama's days as a hard-charging candidate. -
Activists picket at health insurance conference (CNN)
Posted: March 9th, 2010, 7:30pm EST
Activists ratcheted up the pressure for health care reform Tuesday, picketing in front of a hotel where a group of insurance industry leaders were meeting. -
Showdown With Health Insurance Companies (ABC News)
Posted: March 9th, 2010, 6:48pm EST
The final push for health care reform has become an all-out assault on health insurance companies. President Obama and liberal advocacy groups are attacking insurance companies for unreasonable profts, but those companies are fighting back with a national ad campaign. -
Health-care protesters arrest insurance executives (The Charleston Gazette)
Posted: March 9th, 2010, 5:45pm EST
WASHINGTON -- In a reverse twist on the old protesters tactic of getting arrested to make a point, union leaders and other backers of President Barack Obamas health-care plan issued "citizens arrest" warrants for health insurance executives Tuesd... -
Oppn rejects health insurance changes (Sky News Australia)
Posted: March 9th, 2010, 5:37pm EST
The federal government has attacked the opposition for rejecting its private health insurance changes, saying it will now be tougher to return the budget to surplus. -
Oppn rejects health insurance changes (BigPond News)
Posted: March 9th, 2010, 5:37pm EST
The federal government has attacked the opposition for rejecting its private health insurance changes. -
Unions v. the Health Insurance Industry (Nightly Business Report)
Posted: March 9th, 2010, 5:22pm EST
A coalition of labor groups today picked up where President Obama left off yesterday, staging a protest against the health insurance industry. Chanting "hey, hey, ho, ho, insurance abuses have got to go," union members took the streets to protest what they call the "greedy and abusive health insurance industry." Their message: pass a health care reform bill now. They gathered in front of the ... -
Health Care Protesters Face Off Against Insurance Lobbyists (The Huffington Post)
Posted: March 9th, 2010, 2:59pm EST
What's Your Reaction? (Jeremy Binckes contributed to this report.) Hundreds of protesters and labor activists descended upon the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Washington today to try to make things a little more difficult for the health insurance lobbyists and executives gathered inside. -
Obama Takes Aim At Health Insurance Companies (NPR)
Posted: March 9th, 2010, 2:07pm EST
President Obama traveled to Acadia University in suburban Philadelphia on Monday to make the case one more time for Congress to pass legislation to overhaul the nation's health care system. He went after Republicans for their unified opposition, and attacked big insurance companies. -
Obama goes on offensive against health insurance firms (The Capital Times)
Posted: March 9th, 2010, 1:17pm EST
The White House is mounting a stinging, sustained broadside against health insurance rate increases as President Barack Obama and his aides enter what they hope will be the final stretch of a year-long political war over health care reform. -
Obama launches attack on health insurance companies (Washington Post)
Posted: March 8th, 2010, 11:00pm EST
The White House is mounting a stinging, sustained broadside against health insurance rate increases as President Obama and his aides enter what they hope will be the final stretch of a year-long political war over health-care reform. -
Survey Reveals Health Insurance and Access to Care Not So Closely Linked (redOrbit)
Posted: March 8th, 2010, 7:16am EST
Center for Healthcare Research & Transformation survey reveals changing landscape of coverage in Michigan ANN ARBOR, Mich., March 8 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A survey released today by the Center for Healthcare Research & Transformation challenges the long-held assumption that having health insurance is synonymous with having access to health care. -
AIG Sells Alico Health Insurance Unit To MetLife For $15.5B (The Huffington Post)
Posted: March 8th, 2010, 7:00am EST
What's Your Reaction? NEW YORK — American International Group will sell its overseas life and health insurance unit for $15.5 billion to MetLife Inc. in an ongoing bid to repay billions in government aid. -
Individual health-care premiums to soar up to 60% (Chicago Sun-Times)
Posted: March 8th, 2010, 5:31am EST
Individual health-insurance rates in Illinois will rise this year up to60 percent, according to Michael McRaith, director of insurance forIllinois. McRaith said insurance companies have filed reports showing that theindividual plans' base rates will increase from 3 percent to more than60 percent. -
Survey challenges long-held assumption: Having health insurance is synonymous with having access to health care (News-Medical-Net)
Posted: March 8th, 2010, 4:54am EST
A survey released today by the Center for Healthcare Research & Transformation challenges the long-held assumption that having health insurance is synonymous with having access to health care. -
Health minister resigns over health insurance fee hike plan (Chinapost.com.tw)
Posted: March 8th, 2010, 3:25am EST
TAIPEI, Taiwna -- Department of Health (DOH) Minister Yaung Chih-liang announced his surprise resignation Monday following a disagreement with Premier Wu Den-yih on how the national health insurance premiums should be adjusted to bolster the cash-strapped program. -
Lack of health insurance hurts widows, divorcees, like woman in Fairfield (Vallejo Times-Herald)
Posted: March 8th, 2010, 3:08am EST
"If anything happens to me, I'm kinda screwed," Anne Marie Pacheco of Fairfield said Friday.Like many unmarried women her age, the 52-year-old said she has no health coverage but suffers from several health problems like hepatitis C and sciatica which causes back and leg -
Enrollment open for NJ Family Care Health Insurance (The Township Journal)
Posted: March 8th, 2010, 2:00am EST
Newton Project Self-Sufficiency offers open enrollment appointments for New Jersey Family Care, the health insurance plan offered by the state of New Jersey to eligible children and low-income parents, every Wednesday morning, from 9 to 11 a.m., and every Thursday evening, from 6 to 8 p.m. -
Dems point to insurance analysis to boost health bill; GOP argues against reconciliation process (News-Medical-Net)
Posted: March 7th, 2010, 10:39pm EST
News coverage focused on the coming battle between Republicans and Democrats on health reform legislation. -
Video: Health Insurance Rate Hikes (CBS News)
Posted: March 7th, 2010, 5:50pm EST
As Obama Administration officials attempt to push the President's health care plan, exhibit A is a stunning series of rate hikes by private insurance companies. Sharyl Attkisson reports. -
Frustrated: Local Woman Pens Letter to President Obama about Health Insurance (19 Action News Cleveland)
Posted: March 6th, 2010, 2:48pm EST
MEDINA, OH (WOIO) - A local woman frustrated over health insurance inked a letter to President Obama and received a letter back from our nation's leader saying they're working on a solution! -
Justify High Rates, Health Secretary Tells Health Insurance Execs (CommonDreams.org)
Posted: March 5th, 2010, 9:25am EST
by Diana Carlton WASHINGTON - Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius told insurance executives Thursday that their companies should be more transparent when they seek higher premiums amid what she called "jaw-dropping rate increases" from California to the East Coast. "The top five largest for-profit insurance companies filed earnings of $12.2 billion last year while dropping ... -
Feingold, Kohl right to challenge health insurance rate hikes (The Capital Times)
Posted: March 5th, 2010, 5:02am EST
Congressman Paul Ryan, R-Janesville, continues to lead the fight to give insurance companies more leeway to raise rates and limit access to health care. -
Missouri House seeks to block health insurance mandate (Jefferson City News Tribune)
Posted: March 5th, 2010, 2:20am EST
The Missouri House gave preliminary approval Wednesday to a constitutional amendment that seeks to block a government mandate to buy health insurance, taking aim at a key provision in federal legislation to overhaul health care. -
Enrollment open for NJ Family Care Health Insurance (The Township Journal)
Posted: March 5th, 2010, 1:45am EST
Newton Project Self-Sufficiency offers open enrollment appointments for New Jersey Family Care, the health insurance plan offered by the state of New Jersey to eligible children and low-income parents, every Wednesday morning, from 9 to 11 a.m., and every Thursday evening, from 6 to 8 p.m. -
Insurance Commissioner, Doctors Trade Barbs Over Health Care Reform (Hartford Courant)
Posted: March 4th, 2010, 9:48pm EST
Connecticut's insurance commissioner and the state's largest physician group traded barbs this week as the public debate over health care reform flared up again. -
Mo. House seeks to block health insurance mandate (KFVS 12 Cape Girardeau)
Posted: March 4th, 2010, 2:50pm EST
The Missouri House has advanced a proposed amendment to the state constitution aimed at blocking any government mandate that people buy health insurance. -
Kansas Lawmakers Debate Legality Of Health Insurance Mandate Amendment (Medical News Today)
Posted: March 4th, 2010, 11:33am EST
Kansas Health Institute: "Republicans and Democrats were sharply divided Tuesday over a proposed constitutional amendment that sponsors said would let federal officials know Kansans don't want to be told by the government that they must buy health insurance. On a 12-9, party-line vote, the House Health and Human Services Committee voted to recommend House Concurrent Resolution 5032 favorable for ... -
Mo. House seeks to block health insurance mandate (AP via Yahoo! Finance)
Posted: March 4th, 2010, 10:08am EST
The Missouri House gave preliminary approval to a constitutional amendment that seeks to block a government mandate to buy health insurance, taking aim at a key provision in federal legislation to overhaul health care. -
A Health Insurance Mandate With a Choice (New York Times)
Posted: March 4th, 2010, 8:26am EST
Allowing Americans to opt out of mandated insurance could save health care reform. -
Individual health insurance policy premiums soaring (Chicago Tribune)
Posted: March 4th, 2010, 7:55am EST
Illinois consumers to pay up to 60% more, data show Consumers in Illinois who lose their jobs and have no other option but to buy their own health insurance will get socked this year with premium increases of up to 60 percent, according to state records. -
Kansas lawmakers debate legality of health insurance mandate amendment (News-Medical-Net)
Posted: March 4th, 2010, 12:39am EST
Kansas Health Institute: "Republicans and Democrats were sharply divided Tuesday over a proposed constitutional amendment that sponsors said would let federal officials know Kansans don't want to be told by the government that they must buy health insurance. On a 12-9, party-line vote, the House Health and Human Services Committee voted to recommend House Concurrent Resolution 5032 favorable for ... -
D. Brad Wright: Health Insurance and Free Market Competition (The Huffington Post)
Posted: March 4th, 2010, 12:00am EST
Today, I'm hosting the latest edition of the Health Wonk Review. You should read it. The insurance companies are once again under fire thanks to... -
A Health Insurance Mandate With a Choice (New York Times)
Posted: March 3rd, 2010, 11:43pm EST
Allowing Americans to opt out of mandated insurance could save health care reform. -
Huge Health Insurance Premium? Here Are Some Options to Consider (The Lakeland Ledger)
Posted: March 3rd, 2010, 10:54pm EST
By TOM MURPHY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Skyrocketing premiums have stunned some consumers who buy their own health insurance policies. People in several corners of the country are facing increases of 20 percent or more from some insurers. -
Missouri House seeks to block health insurance mandate (Columbia Missourian)
Posted: March 3rd, 2010, 8:12pm EST
JEFFERSON CITY — The Missouri House gave preliminary approval Wednesday to a constitutional amendment that seeks to block a government mandate to buy health insurance, taking aim at a key provision in federal legislation to overhaul health care. The proposed state constitutional amendment would ban penalties or fines from being levied against individuals and employers who opt out of insurance ... -
Pelosi: We Will Move Forward on Health Insurance Reform, Including Best Ideas of Democrats and Republicans (redOrbit)
Posted: March 3rd, 2010, 6:13pm EST
WASHINGTON, March 3 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Speaker Nancy Pelosi released the following statement today on President Obama's remarks at the White House on health insurance reform legislation, which combines the best ideas of Democrats and Republicans: "The President's announcement is a call to action. -
State House seeks to block health insurance mandate (KSDK St. Louis)
Posted: March 3rd, 2010, 5:55pm EST
State House seeks to block health insurance mandate -
Lawmakers OK expanding health insurance exchange (KSL Salt Lake City)
Posted: March 3rd, 2010, 3:35pm EST
The Utah Legislature has passed a bill that would expand the state's experimental health insurance exchange. -
Lawmakers OK expanding health insurance exchange (ABC 4 Salt Lake City)
Posted: March 3rd, 2010, 1:58pm EST
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - The Utah Legislature has passed a bill that would expand the state's experimental health insurance exchange. The proposal now advances to the governor's office. The Utah Health Exchange went online last year. The Web-based marketplace lets employees browse different plans as if buying an airline ticket. Launched in a limited form last August, many exchange participants ... -
Why Pay For Health Insurance When You Can Steal It? (NPR)
Posted: March 3rd, 2010, 5:33am EST
Experts say medical identity theft has increased sharply in recent months. Patients use someone else's insurance card, Social Security number or name to receive health care. This can be dangerous for victims, especially if their imposter's health information is recorded in their chart and causes a mix-up. -
Choosing the right health insurance (The GW Hatchet)
Posted: March 1st, 2010, 9:28am EST
Leonard Friedman, professor in the health services management and leadership department, tells students how to obtain health insurance that is both complete and won't break the bank. -
HealthInsuranceFinders.com, Nation's Leading Health Insurance Resource Site Launches New Website Design (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Posted: March 1st, 2010, 8:00am EST
HealthInsuranceFinders.com, the nation's leading resource for health insurance information and quotes, has launched an enhanced website design. Launched in 2001, HealthInsuranceFinders.com provides consumers with information about purchasing and understanding the complexities of health insurance, along with a search tool to find health insurance quotes from multiple brokers and agents. -
Bill extends health insurance to jobless Ohioans (NBC 24 Toledo)
Posted: March 1st, 2010, 6:40am EST
Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland has signed a bill extending health insurance to jobless Ohioans for three additional months. -
Why Pay For Health Insurance When You Can Steal It? (NPR)
Posted: March 1st, 2010, 3:09am EST
Experts say medical identity theft has increased sharply in recent months. Patients use someone else's insurance card, Social Security number or name to receive health care. This can be dangerous for victims, especially if their imposter's health information is recorded in their chart and causes a mix-up. -
Little competition in health insurance industry (The Springfield News-Leader)
Posted: March 1st, 2010, 3:07am EST
Competition in the health insurance industry is vanishing, according to an American Medical Association report that looked at data from 43 states and 313 metropolitan markets.