Lawmaker drops database bill
MSN MoneyCentral - state department to create a database of millions of Coloradans’ names, Social Security numbers, employers and health coverage information. Health plans and some lawmakers called it a huge invasion of privacy. The Colorado Department of Health Care
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Billings Gazette - HB405, Lange, increase natural resource development for low-cost energy. HJ14, Heinert, urge congressional revision of SB419, Lind, allow children to remain covered by parent’s health insurance to age 26. SB542, Ryan, revise group life insurance
CVS Bigger, Better
By Paul Grimaldi, The Providence Journal, R.I. Mar. 29–Businesses never stay the same size. They either shrink or they grow — sometimes by almost immeasurable amounts, other times by scale-scrambling volumes. CVS Corp. inclines toward the latter.
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New Orleans Times-Picayune - Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt and Sen. David Vitter, R-La., to redesign health-care policy in a way It’s insurance companies that are not treating us correctly. It’s the Road Home program that’s not moving as fast as it should
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Bill would provide coverage to uninsured veterans
MADISON, Wis. Democrats in the Legislature unveiled plans today to make health insurance coverage available to some uninsured veterans in the state. Representative…
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Daily Citizen-News - Georgia’s PeachCare health insurance program for poor children received an $81 million bailout from the state under a budget QUOTE OF THE DAY “Repentance comes from the heart. I’m not sure about public apologies on behalf of other people as
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Kait 8 - State Insurance Commissioner Julie Benafield Bowman said she had the authorization to tell the Senate’s Committee on Public Health, Welfare and Labor that Beebe did not support adding not plan to contest the finding and says the campaign — quote
State insurance laws keep costs too high for young adults
Seattle Post Intelligencer - During six months of meetings, the governor’s Blue Ribbon Commission on Health Care Costs and Access learned that 51 percent of Washington’s 593,000 uninsured are young adults, ages 19-34. They’re also the fastest-growing segment of the uninsured
Whidbey Community Physicians may no longer accept Tricare
Until the federal government drastically reworks its reimbursement system for military health care, its patients may be forced to scour communities for clinics willing to accept the insurance.
City of Toledo's health insurance plan shown to be 1 of area's … - Toledo Blade
| City of Toledo's health insurance plan shown to be 1 of area's … Toledo Blade, OH - Employees, retirees, and surviving spouses associated with DaimlerChrysler’s North Assembly Plant, Supplier Park, and Toledo Machining also enjoy low-cost … |