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Backers of rate regulation aren't satisfied with health exchange
President Obama singled out California last week for getting better-than-expected rates in its rollout of the health insurance overhaul for millions of consumers. Yet some Obamacare supporters say those premiums are still too high, and they are...
Tags: Health Insurance, Barack Obama, Health Insurance Cost
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FBI probe comes up at legislative hearing
Last week’s FBI raid of the office of Sen. Ron Calderon (D-Montebello) has the Capitol on edge. That was clear Wednesday when the first words of Sen. Ricardo Lara (D-Bell Gardens) to a committee considering one of his bills was to assure the panel...
Tags: FBI, Ricardo Lara, Ron Calderon
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Kaiser's Obamacare rates surprise analysts
In California's new state-run health insurance market, Kaiser Permanente will cost you. The healthcare giant has the highest rates in Southern California and some other areas of the state, surpassing rivals such as Anthem Blue Cross and other smaller...
Tags: Health Care Reform (2009), Medicaid, Health Net Inc., Healthcare Provider, Health Insurance
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California insurance chief: Keep Anthem out of small-biz exchange
California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones, in an unusual move, wants Anthem Blue Cross barred from the state's new health exchange for small businesses because of the company's excessive rate hikes in the past. Thursday, Jones asked Covered...
Tags: Small Businesses, Healthcare Laws, Healthcare Provider, Crime, Law and Justice, Health and Safety at Work
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Financial help for patients fighting cancer
After finding a lump in her breast, Laura Wells had to wait nearly six months before getting a confirmed diagnosis of cancer. The 46-year-old Costa Mesa woman was uninsured and working part-time when she discovered the lump in 2007. She worked for...
Tags: Environmental Issues, Finance, Health Treatments, Leukemia, Lymphoma
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More Californians using smartphones for proof of auto insurance
SACRAMENTO -- Tired of rooting around in the car's glove compartment for a crumpled proof-of-insurance card when you're unlucky enough to be pulled over by a traffic cop? No worry, if you have a smartphone or tablet computer. California is the seventh...
Tags: Science and Technology, Electronics, GEICO
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At Aetna, another example of screwy medical pricing
Consumers have been told by insurers again and again that if they want cheaper prices for prescription drugs, they need to order them in bulk from mail-order pharmacies. And typically, it works out that way. Sometimes, however, the prices reveal how...
Tags: Drugs and Medicines, Prescription Drugs, CVS Corp., Aetna Inc., Lipitor (drug)
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Health insurance: Can it be made simple?
The success of the 2010 federal healthcare law depends in part on more uninsured Americans obtaining coverage. So it's crucial that when the uninsured try to sign up for policies, they don't get a bureaucratic runaround or wind up in phone-tree hell....
Tags: Medicaid, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, Healthcare Laws, Health Insurance, Crime, Law and Justice
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Blue Shield, Anthem owe small firms millions of dollars in rebates
Blue Shield of California owes $24.5 million in rebates to thousands of small-business customers, and rival Anthem Blue Cross will return $12 million to small firms under requirements of the federal healthcare law. The annual rebates were disclosed in...
Tags: Employees, Small Businesses, Health Net Inc., Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Employment
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Health law led to $2.1 billion in savings for consumers, report says
A new report estimates that U.S. consumers who purchase their own health insurance saved $2.1 billion last year due to tougher rules in the federal healthcare law. Thursday's report by the nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation estimates that individual...
Tags: Harvard Medical School, Health Insurance, City University of New York, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
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Obama cites California to tout his healthcare law
This post has been updated, as indicated below.[Updated, 10:56 a.m. June 7: SAN JOSE – President Obama on Friday morning held up California as an example of how his healthcare law will help consumers, citing the state’s progress getting health insurers to offer better plans at affordable...Tags: Laws, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Judges, Univision (tv network), Healthcare Laws
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LAUSD insurer sues to avoid paying $30 million Miramonte settlement
An insurance company has sued the Los Angeles Unified School District seeking to avoid paying settlement costs related to alleged child abuse at Miramonte Elementary School. The action, if successful, could leave the nation's second-largest school...
Tags: Corporate Crime, Los Angeles Unified School District, Breach of Contract, AEG, Michael Jackson
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