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1 in 3 Tennesseans uninsured during past 2 years - Forbes

Filed under: Health Insurance — healthinsurance at 11:00 pm on Tuesday, March 31, 2009

1 in 3 Tennesseans uninsured during past 2 years - Forbes


Nashville Business Journal

1 in 3 Tennesseans uninsured during past 2 years
Forbes, NY
Texas, New Mexico, California and Florida have the highest numbers of uninsured residents. The report said the changing labor market and rising health insurance premiums have led to a decline in job-based health insurance. "This is an American crisis
1 in 3 Tennesseans uninsured during last 2 years WBIR-TV
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Latest News - dBusinessNews.com

Filed under: Health Insurance — healthinsurance at 9:00 pm on Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Latest News - dBusinessNews.com
IndustrialCOOP Introduces Its Directory of Industrial Adhesives, Rubber Adhesives & Epoxies The co-op industry search engine IndustrialCOOP.com has debuted its latest GoHealth Insurance Begins Posting Answers to Consumer Health Insurance Cobra

Health Happenings - Peoria Journal Star
The Clubs at River City will host Hoops for Hope, a basketball tournament fundraiser for the Mental Health Association of Illinois Valley. The event - 1-5 p.m. April 5 - will consist of four-member teams playing a 20-minute, running clock game. All

Health insurers pull a fast one in proposed reform - Los Angeles Times

Filed under: Health Insurance — healthinsurance at 8:00 pm on Monday, March 30, 2009

Health insurers pull a fast one in proposed reform - Los Angeles Times


The Money Times

Health insurers pull a fast one in proposed reform
Los Angeles Times, CA
I'll give the insurance industry credit for coming to the table with something halfway constructive, even if it took them decades to get there. But let's be realistic. If all Americans were required to purchase health insurance from private companies,
Healthcare on life support Examiner.com
Region’s insurers not pleased with state’s health plans and rules Buffalo News
Pre-Existing Condition Denials Increase, as the Jobless Search for ChattahBox
United Press International
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Insure.com Offers Sweepstakes - and Insurance Help! - FOXBusiness


Insure.com Offers Sweepstakes - and Insurance Help!
FOXBusiness
Visitors to the company's flagship Web site, www.insure.com, are able to obtain free, instant car insurance quotes, instant life insurance quotes, home, business and health insurance quotes from leading insurers and have the freedom to buy online or by

Prescriptions go digital as doctors ditch paper - Oak Ridger

Filed under: Health Insurance — healthinsurance at 5:00 pm on Monday, March 30, 2009

Prescriptions go digital as doctors ditch paper - Oak Ridger
An increasing number of doctors are using secure Internet connections to send prescriptions directly to pharmacies, at the urging of state officials and insurance companies. Melissa Hargiss, director of the state’s Office of e-Health Initiatives said

Coverage & Access | New York Times Examines Massachusetts Health - Kaisernetwork.org
“By tackling cost at the same time as access,” the Obama administration and congressional lawmakers “have made their political challenge more difficult,” the New York Times reports. According to the Times , the only “real-life model in this country

Looking for health insurance - Examiner.com

Filed under: Health Insurance — healthinsurance at 12:00 pm on Friday, March 27, 2009

Looking for health insurance - Examiner.com


Looking for health insurance
Examiner.com
Some organizations include - Medsave.com; 2Insure4less . There are also a number of sites where companies and individuals can look for low cost insurance and quotes such sites include: Low Insurance and Security.

Head of health plans group endorses creating low-cost individual … - Crain’s Detroit Business


Head of health plans group endorses creating low-cost individual
Crain’s Detroit Business, MI
By Jay Greene Rick Murdock, executive director of the Michigan Association of Health Plans, said today his association would be in favor of creating a basic health insurance benefit package for individuals that could be priced at about $200 per month.

Health insurance mandate seen part of US overhaul - Reuters

Filed under: Health Insurance — healthinsurance at 10:00 am on Friday, March 27, 2009

Health insurance mandate seen part of US overhaul - Reuters


Health insurance mandate seen part of US overhaul
Reuters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A mandate to purchase health insurance is likely to be part of a sweeping overhaul of the US healthcare system that Congress hopes to enact by the end of the year, a top Democrat in the US House of Representatives said on

Senate Democrats may ask state workers to pay more for health … - Seattle Times


Senate Democrats may ask state workers to pay more for health
Seattle Times, United States
Senate Democrats are looking at making state employees pay more for their health insurance to help balance the state budget. State workers would pick up no more than 18 percent of the cost of their health insurance, said Sen. Rodney Tom, D-Medina,
State computer could delay insurance savings The Olympian
Old computer saves state mangers' hide The Olympian
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Rate of uninsured is growing quickly - CharlotteObserver.com

Filed under: Health Insurance — healthinsurance at 7:00 am on Thursday, March 26, 2009

Rate of uninsured is growing quickly - CharlotteObserver.com


Rate of uninsured is growing quickly
CharlotteObserver.com, NC
In North Carolina, individuals with health insurance pay an estimated $438 per year in premiums to cover the cost of treatment for the uninsured. Families pay an estimated $1130 in annual premiums for that reason. The Institute of Medicine report

Making a business case for health reform - St. Louis Post-Dispatch


YES! Magazine

Making a business case for health reform
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, MO
Higher US health spending also has resulted in fast-growing health insurance premiums, which have cost growing numbers of workers their insurance coverage. About 9 million more Americans — and about 6 million more workers — were uninsured in 2007 than
The Role of Tax Reform in Health Care Reform—Reply Journal of American Medical Association (subscription)
Health Care and Medicaid — Weathering the Recession New England Journal of Medicine (subscription)
Needed: Health reform that Works OpEdNews
CQPolitics.com - American Progress Action Fund
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Workers feel brunt of health insurance woes - KVOA.com

Filed under: Health Insurance — healthinsurance at 6:00 pm on Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Workers feel brunt of health insurance woes - KVOA.com


WTNH

Workers feel brunt of health insurance woes
KVOA.com, AZ
AP - March 24, 2009 2:23 AM ET WASHINGTON (AP) - At the top of the list of those getting squeezed by private health insurance premiums are American workers. While just about all retirees and nearly 90% of children have coverage, a study for the Robert
Study: Health insurance premiums rising faster than wages FierceHealthcare
Workers feel the brunt of health insurance woes The Associated Press
Ranks of workers with no health insurance have significantly grown Minneapolis Star Tribune
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Bill to raise SC cigarette tax 50 cents advances - Forbes


South Carolina Now

Bill to raise SC cigarette tax 50 cents advances
Forbes, NY
The bill, by House Speaker Bobby Harrell, R-Charleston, calls for using $139 million generated from the tax to create a new health insurance program that would cover as much as $3000 of the cost of a health insurance policy for the state's low income
50 cent cigarette tax increase advances WIS
Price of cigarettes in South Carolina is increasing Aiken Standard (subscription)
Cigarette tax gains momentum The State
WBTV - Forbes
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Florida Health Insurance Quotes Lower Thanks To Obama Health Policy - WebWire

Filed under: Health Insurance — healthinsurance at 7:00 am on Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Florida Health Insurance Quotes Lower Thanks To Obama Health Policy - WebWire
Florida health insurance broker, Morgan Moran is quite pleased with the Obama administrations health insurance plans, “it will mean lower health insurance quotes for my clients, and greater benefits; already insurance rates at some of the top

Dazed and consumed: Part 2 - Guardian Unlimited
When I posted my last Dazed and Consumed blog, several commenters expressed the belief that my problems with consumer-related mail were symptomatic of depression . So, egged on by my editor (slightly too gleefully for comfort, I thought), I called

All Web Leads Transforming Insurance Marketplace with Innovative - Consumer Electronics Net

Filed under: Health Insurance — healthinsurance at 9:00 pm on Monday, March 23, 2009

All Web Leads Transforming Insurance Marketplace with Innovative - Consumer Electronics Net
Austin-based All Web Leads , an online sales lead provider for the US insurance industry, is changing the insurance marketplace with a unique approach to lead generation that helps agents take advantage of the Internet to grow their business. The

Latest News - dBusinessNews.com
Triangle Media Trainers Taps MMI Associates, Inc. For Public Relations Services Local Public Relations Firm Named Agency Of Record For Media SIA Group Releases Podcast On Personal Insurance Vice President Bill Mills Discusses Types of Personal

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