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S.F. officials blast Kaiser for hiking rates for public workers
SAN FRANCISCO — Officials who oversee the healthcare plans of San Francisco public employees and their families excoriated Kaiser executives Thursday for failing to adequately explain a proposed rate increase, but ultimately voted to back it as...Tags: Public Employees, Health and Safety at Work, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Government, Politics
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S.F. grudgingly backs Kaiser rate hike for public workers
SAN FRANCISCO — Officials who oversee the healthcare plans that cover San Francisco public employees this week excoriated Kaiser executives for failing to adequately explain a proposed rate increase but ultimately voted to back it. The city's...Tags: Public Employees, Health and Safety at Work, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Politics, Government
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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 Net Inc., Citigroup Incorporated, Health Care Reform (2009), Medicaid, General Practitioners
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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: Business, Health and Safety at Work, Healthcare Laws, Healthcare Provider, Crime, Law and Justice
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Robert Fogel dies at 86; economic historian won Nobel Prize
Robert Fogel, the University of Chicago economic historian awarded a Nobel Prize for his data-driven reconsiderations of how railways and slavery influenced U.S. economic history, has died. He was 86. Fogel died Tuesday at Manor Care Health Services...
Tags: Oak Lawn, Productivity, Manor Care Incorporated, Harvard University, Cornell University
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Regulator wants to bar Anthem from small-business health exchange
California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones wants industry giant Anthem Blue Cross barred from the state's new health exchange for small businesses because he says the company imposes excessive rate hikes. Jones said the state's largest for-profit...
Tags: Business, Employment Opportunities, Healthcare Laws, Healthcare Provider, Sales
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Boxer to push funding for health costs of uninsured immigrants
WASHINGTON—Sen. Barbara Boxer plans to push for Washington to provide $250 million and perhaps more to help local and state governments pay the cost of healthcare to uninsured immigrants who seek legal status under legislation now before the Senate....
Tags: Barbara Boxer, Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Crime, Law and Justice, Labor Legislation
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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, Insurance
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Largest California state workers union says pay raises on the way
SACRAMENTO -- California's largest union of state workers, SEIU Local 1000, said it has reached a tentative agreement with officials of Gov. Jerry Brown's administration to award "across-the-board" pay raises to its members. The raises, which were...Tags: Career and Workplace, Collective Contract, Public Employees, Unions, Jerry Brown
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Immigrants help Medicare stay solvent
WASHINGTON — Immigrants in the United States both legally and illegally are helping sustain Medicare, contributing about $14 billion more a year to the federal health program for the elderly than they use in medical services, a new study indicates....
Tags: Health and Medical Professionals, U.S. Congress, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Government, Internists
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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: Business, Healthcare Laws, Employment Opportunities, Healthcare Provider, Crime, Law and Justice
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Bill Clinton challenges California to lead on healthcare overhaul
Former President Clinton challenged California to make the federal healthcare overhaul work to silence naysayers and win over states that are still on the fence. Clinton, addressing an audience of doctors and healthcare executives in downtown Los...
Tags: Laws, China, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Bill Clinton, Health Insurance
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