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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: Judges, Health Insurance Cost, Justice System, Hospitals and Clinics, Crime, Law and Justice
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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: Healthcare Laws, Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice, Barack Obama, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
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UCLA surgeons using Vine, Instagram to video tweet brain surgery
Even as hospitals struggle with keeping patient information secure in the digital world, more and more are finding that some patients are willing to publicly share intimate moments. UCLA’s Health System became the latest healthcare provider to...
Tags: Social Media, Twitter, Inc., Hospitals and Clinics, Medical Procedures and Tests
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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 Net Inc., Macy's, Healthcare Provider, Health Insurance Cost, Healthcare Policies
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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: Healthcare Laws, Health Net Inc., Marketing, Crime, Law and Justice, Aetna Inc.
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Disgraced ex-congressman Anthony Weiner running for New York mayor
NEW YORK — Former Rep. Anthony Weiner, whose career imploded in a rash of raunchy tweets two years ago, announced in a YouTube video late Tuesday that he is running for mayor of New York. “I made some big mistakes and I know I let a lot...
Tags: Twitter, Inc., Satellite and Cable Service, Parties and Movements, Bill Thompson, Huma Abedin
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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: Barbara Boxer, Employment, Instrument Engineering, Career and Workplace, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
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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: Medical Procedures and Tests, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Bloomfield (Hartford, Connecticut), Consumers, Medicaid
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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: Social Media, Jihad, Sports, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Media Industry
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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: Personal Income, Asthma, Health Insurance Cost, Pharmaceuticals, Poverty
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Medicaid opposition underscores states' healthcare disparities
WASHINGTON — Republican opposition in many statehouses to expanding Medicaid next year under President Obama's healthcare law — opposition that could leave millions of the nation's poorest residents without insurance coverage — will...
Tags: Healthcare Laws, Parties and Movements, Government, Mitt Romney, Social Issues
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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: Employment, Government, Career and Workplace, Health and Safety at Work, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
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