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Health secretary piles pressure on insurers (Reuters)
Categorie : Health Insurance / Medical InsuranceReuters - U.S. Health Secretary Kathleen Sebelius ratcheted up the pressure on health insurance companies on Wednesday, urging them to forgo short-term profits and stop fighting President Barack Obama's health reform plans. ...
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Sun Mar 2010
Obama takes aim at health insurers (Reuters)
Categorie : Health Insurance / Medical InsuranceReuters - President Barack Obama criticized U.S. health insurance companies on Monday for raising premiums sharply and denying coverage to the sick, as he sought to rally Democratic support for his healthcare bill. ...
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Health insurer rises should be public: health sec (Reuters)
Categorie : Health Insurance / Medical InsuranceReuters - U.S. health insurers should post information about rising premiums for certain customers on their company websites to justify rising costs, the U.S. health secretary said in a letter to several insurers on Monday. ...
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Top US cardiologists gather to lay out future advances (AFP)
Categorie : Health Insurance / Medical InsuranceAFP - Thousands of cardiologists from around the world descend on Atlanta, Georgia this weekend to discuss the latest advances, treatments and care strategies to combat heart disease. ...
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Democrats move closer to healthcare deal (Reuters)
Categorie : Health Insurance / Medical InsuranceReuters - Congressional Democrats drew closer on Thursday to agreement on a broad healthcare overhaul that could lead to a final vote in the next few weeks, but vowed not to be bound by White House deadlines. ...
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Health Overhaul Policy Tidbits
Categorie : Health Insurance / Medical InsuranceNPR: For those who have forgotten what the Senate's bill would actually do as the debate has turned to politics and procedure, "a short refresher" may come in handy... ...
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Senate Test Vote Today On Bill To Extend COBRA Subsidy, Doc Fix And State Medicaid Funding
Categorie : Health Insurance / Medical InsuranceThe Senate is poised to consider a measure today that would include extending subsidies for COBRA benefits and unemployment insurance, prevent the Medicare payment cut for doctors and provide additional funding to state Medicaid programs... ...
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Pro- And Anti-Health Reform Groups Wage Last Minute Attacks
Categorie : Health Insurance / Medical InsuranceStephan Payne protested abuses by health insurance companies and pushed for health care reform during a rally Tuesday. The rally was organized by Health Care for America Now and coincided with an annual conference for health insurance executives in D.C... ...
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Lincoln, Kucinich Weigh In On Health Bill Votes
Categorie : Health Insurance / Medical InsuranceLawmakers weigh in on the health care overhaul debate. The Associated Press/The Washington Times: Sen. Blanche Lincoln, D-Ark., "insisted Tuesday she remained opposed to pushing a health care bill through the Senate with a simple majority vote, despite saying she wanted to see what was in the legis ...
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California Rescission Settlement Benefits Few Consumers
Categorie : Health Insurance / Medical InsuranceThe Associated Press reports on a new California state assembly report that found fewer than 200 people out of the more than 6,000 affected have taken advantage of benefits won by a settlement between state regulators and health insurers that dropped sick policyholders... ...
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States' Legislative Health Initiatives Stall
Categorie : Health Insurance / Medical InsuranceThe Boston Globe: "A group of Massachusetts mayors, fed up with what they say is legislative inaction on skyrocketing municipal health care costs, has launched a ballot initiative for 2012 aimed at giving cities and towns more flexibility in reducing expensive benefits for employees, retirees ...
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Obama Makes Final Public Push For Health Reform As Democrats Consider Timeline
Categorie : Health Insurance / Medical InsurancePresident Obama is delivering his "closing argument" for health care reform in St. Louis today as Democratic leaders strategize on moving the bill through the House and Senate.The Associated Press: "Obama is to speak Wednesday at St. Charles High School, his second health care address in three days. ...
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GOP Putting Strategies In Place To Thwart Dems On Reform
Categorie : Health Insurance / Medical InsurancePolitico: "When Mitch McConnell speaks these days, he expects House Blue Dogs to be listening... ...
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Senate Poised To Pass COBRA Subsidy Extension, Medicare 'Doc Fix'
Categorie : Health Insurance / Medical InsuranceThe Senate is set to vote Wednesday on a jobs bill that would extend the COBRA subsidy program and Medicaid funding for states and prevent a Medicare reimbursement cut for doctors. The Associated Press: The bill "extends health insurance subsidies for the unemployed through December. It would add $ ...
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Non-Profit Operations Plugging Health Care Gap In Chicago
Categorie : Health Insurance / Medical InsuranceMedill Reports presents a story on community health centers in Chicago that try to fill access-to-care gaps for people too sick to get health care coverage or too poor to afford other care. "Community health centers ... are private, non-profit operations that fill a gap between for-profit hea ...
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PhRMA Spends $6.3 Lobbying In Fourth Quarter, Slight Increase From Year Before
Categorie : Health Insurance / Medical InsuranceThe Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America spent $6.3 million lobbying Congress and other government arms on health care in the fourth quarter of 2009, The Associated Press reports. PhRMA "spent just 2 percent more than the $6.17 million it paid out for lobbying in the year-ago period ...
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Does Medicare 'Doughnut Hole' Spur Increase In Foreign Drug Imports?
Categorie : Health Insurance / Medical InsuranceMedill Reports: "Unless federal legislation closes the Medicare coverage gap colloquially known as the 'doughnut hole,' seniors may opt for online drug imports to alleviate steep prescription costs. ... 'As seniors start falling into the doughnut hole, they are going online to find deals on p ...
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Today's OpEds: Congressional Dealmaking, Cutting 'Honchos Pay,' Controlling Costs
Categorie : Health Insurance / Medical InsuranceCongressional Deals: Watching The Sausage Making Politico Legislators need pork to make things happen, especially in an age when chronic obstruction has so weakened the legislative process that policy breakthroughs are almost impossible. This does not excuse all kinds of deal making, nor shou ...
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State Overhaul Fears, Rising Costs, Medical School Expansions
Categorie : Health Insurance / Medical InsuranceThe New York Times: "The General Assembly became the first state legislature to approve a measure that bucks any effort by President Obama and Congress to carry out a national health care overhaul in individual states." Numerous Democrats joined the Republican majority to support the measure 80-17 ...
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Today's OpEds: Rove On Reconciliation, An Imagined Plea From Kennedy, Vulnerable Hispanics
Categorie : Health Insurance / Medical InsuranceThe Trouble With 'Reconciliation' The Wall Street Journal House Democrats would be foolish to trust a process that has deeply alienated the American public. Republicans know that and are determined to make House Democrats think hard about the price they will pay for passing this health-care m ...
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