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Good news on health costs
The state's new health insurance exchange gave an encouraging preview Thursday of the sweeping effects that the 2010 federal healthcare law will have on consumers next year, announcing lower-than-expected prices for individual policies. Still, the success...
Tags: Health Insurance, Hospitals and Clinics, Crime, Law and Justice, Health Insurance Cost, Justice System
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New California health insurance rates unveiled
Amid anxiety over rising costs from the federal healthcare law, California received better-than-expected insurance rates for a new state-run marketplace, but many consumers still won't be spared from sharply higher premiums. Three years after...
Tags: Medicaid, Consumers, Health Insurance, Health Net Inc., Healthcare Laws
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If this health plan is 'socialism,' we need more of it
So this is what socialism looks like: Private companies competing for people's business in an open marketplace. Californians got their first glimpse Thursday of what insurers plan to charge for coverage to be offered next year to about 5 million state...
Tags: Health Care Reform (2009), Consumers, Health Insurance, Health Net Inc., Healthcare Policies
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Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and his fangirls
OK, so Dzhokhar Tsarnaev stands accused of blowing up three people, injuring 282 more and shooting to death an MIT campus police officer. He's also got fans, or more accurately, he's got fangirls, thousands of them. These besotted double-X chromosome-...
Tags: Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Health Insurance, Sports, Social Media, Mother's Day
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UnitedHealth, Aetna and Cigna opt out of California insurance exchange
Some prominent health insurers, including industry giant UnitedHealth Group Inc., are not participating in California's new state-run health insurance market, possibly limiting the number of choices for millions of consumers. UnitedHealth, the nation'...
Tags: Medicaid, Consumers, Health Insurance, Hartford (Hartford, Connecticut), Companies and Corporations
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California picks 13 health plans for state-run insurance market
After weeks of negotiations, California said it has selected 13 health plans for a new state-run insurance marketplace where as many as 5 million people will shop for coverage next year. Officials at Covered California, the state agency implementing the...
Tags: Marketing, Medicaid, Consumers, Cigna Corporation, Health Insurance
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Some could have gaps in medical coverage under new law
When the national healthcare law takes full effect next year, millions of Americans risk disrupted health coverage because of common life events: getting married or divorced, having children or taking on a second job. As their family incomes change,...
Tags: Medicaid, Health Insurance, Personal Income, Diabetes, Social Issues
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Why the medical device tax needs to stay
The chief drawback of a law as complex as the Affordable Care Act, the health insurance reform measure passed in 2010, is that it provides self-interested opponents a multitude of places to stick a wedge in and hammer away. But you'd be hard-pressed...
Tags: Medicaid, Health Insurance, Barbara Boxer, Heritage Foundation, Insurance
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City of San Francisco, worker unions protest Kaiser premium hike
SAN FRANCISCO — It's a trend many public employees can relate to: Health insurance premiums climb year after year, while at the bargaining table workers have agreed to kick in more for pensions, take salary cuts and sign on to furlough days. But...Tags: Health Insurance, Health and Medical Professionals, Hospitals and Clinics, Employment Opportunities, Government
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House Republicans repudiate Obama healthcare program -- again
WASHINGTON – House Republicans voted for the 37th time Thursday evening to repeal all or part of President Obama’s healthcare law, underscoring once again the deep partisan divide over the landmark 2010 legislation. The bill to roll back the...
Tags: Medicaid, Consumers, Health Insurance, Elections, Court Administration
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Jonathan Fielding, the public's MD
If you've got your health, the cliche goes, you've got just about everything. If you've got public health duties, you're responsible for just about everything from mosquitoes (West Nile carriers) to hygiene (wash your hands for as long as it takes to sing...
Tags: Lung Cancer, Disease Prevention, Chemical Industry, HIV, Gonorrhea
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Lax oversight allows felons to counsel addicts, report finds
California's lax rules governing who can work as substance abuse counselors have allowed sex offenders and other felons to treat addicts with little to no scrutiny by the state, according to a report by the Senate Office of Oversight and Outcomes released...Tags: Substance Abuse, Criminals, Addiction, Behavioral Conditions, Crime, Law and Justice
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