Insurers Must Improve Benefits for New Health Exchanges - Bloomberg

Insurers Must Improve Benefits for New Health Exchanges
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Half the people who buy their own health insurance, rather than depend on an employer, are in plans that have fewer benefits than what the US health-care law will require beginning in 2014, a study found. UnitedHealth Group Inc. (UNH), WellPoint Inc.
Half of Americans with individual health plans could gain better coverage ... Medical Xpress

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Catholic Organizations Sue over Health Insurance Mandate - The Nonprofit Quarterly


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Catholic Organizations Sue over Health Insurance Mandate
The Nonprofit Quarterly
The US Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) is simply the cheerleader, but a total of 43 Catholic organizations and dioceses have gone to court against the federal government to challenge the Obama administration's health reform mandate that ...
FRC Supports Catholic Lawsuits Against HHS-Required Abortifacient and ... MarketWatch (press release)
Catholic Groups Challenge Affordable Care Act Courthouse News Service
Mich. Catholics sue over health care mandate Toledo Blade
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Obamacare Will Not Fix Health Care! - Salt Lake City Weekly


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Obamacare Will Not Fix Health Care!
Salt Lake City Weekly
Private health insurance is the most wasteful way to pay for health care ever invented, with excess administrative costs in the United States of about $400 billion per year. In addition, the private health-insurance business model distorts incentives ...
Don't Deny Us Huffington Post (blog)
HHS Signs $20M Public-Relations Contract to Bolster ObamaCare The New American
Health Care SPDR In Focus Ahead Of Obamacare Decision MarketWatch
Tucson Citizen - United Liberty - Big Hollywood
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In rejiggering, MetLife to curb VA sales, roll out health insurance - InvestmentNews

In rejiggering, MetLife to curb VA sales, roll out health insurance
InvestmentNews
By Darla Mercado MetLife Inc. executives say that variable annuities will take a backseat to other product offerings as the insurer refocuses its US business. The life insurance company is aiming for about $18 billion in variable annuity sales this ...

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Hospital board hears report on Pre-existing Condition Insurance Plan (PCIP ... - Mount Pleasant Daily Tribune

Hospital board hears report on Pre-existing Condition Insurance Plan (PCIP ...
Mount Pleasant Daily Tribune
If you have been denied coverage by private insurance companies because of a pre-existing condition, the Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan (PCIP), part of the Affordable Care Act, makes health insurance coverage available to you through the US ...

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5 Western US states shielding part of executions - Aiken Standard

5 Western US states shielding part of executions
Aiken Standard
TalkBack: DOE Insurance, Colored hair, Return documents 5/22/2012 9:38 PM DOE insurance The Department of Energy health insurance stipend for SRS retirees comes with no assurance of a cost-of-living increases, and DOE has al .

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Health Insurance Cutbacks Squeeze The Insured - NPR (blog)

Health Insurance Cutbacks Squeeze The Insured
NPR (blog)
She was in that conference room for a meeting about her health insurance. "Every year my company changes the insurance. And instead of giving us three different choices for insurance plans they were changing to one, which was a high-deductible plan ...

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Obama Health Care Hangs on Business Clause Queried by Court - San Francisco Chronicle

Obama Health Care Hangs on Business Clause Queried by Court
San Francisco Chronicle
The bulk of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act falls comfortably within the commerce clause power, at least as it's been defined by the Supreme Court over the past seven decades. Health care accounts for 18 percent of the US economy and ...

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Health-Care Costs a Top Concern for Small Business Week - Fox Business

Health-Care Costs a Top Concern for Small Business Week
Fox Business
This is currently discouraged in the US tax code. "Employees can only use pre-tax dollars for insurance if their employers choose, purchase and administer their insurance policies which creates several well-documented problems: the individual market is ...

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Small business shuns health care tax credit - CNNMoney

Small business shuns health care tax credit
CNNMoney
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- A tax credit meant to help millions of small businesses afford health coverage for their employees was claimed by only 170300 last year, a government watchdog has found. The Government Accountability Office report, ...
Few US Small Businesses Claim Health Insurance Tax Credit Tax-news.com

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