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• Revision gives nonprofit insurers tax breaks

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 462
  Among the changes Senate Democratic leaders made to the massive health care package unveiled Saturday was giving nonprofit health insurance companies a limited exemption from the excise tax levied on insurers, a revision pushed by Sen. Carl Levin, who is a major recipient of campaign contributions from mega-nonprofit ...
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• Obama – pass the health bill (Update – yet another compromise)

  
  Where's the Outrage? — Authority: 432
  Again on a Saturday there is an announcement of a deal. Sen. Ben Nelson seems to have the capitulation that he’s been asking for. Something smells rotten to me. In Pres. Obama’s weekly address, he asks for a vote. unfortunately, he used Republican terminology in asking for a “up or down vote.” I’m not sure ...
  2 days ago

• What is the Difference Between Health Insurance Companies in California?

  
  fresh healthy body — Authority: 454
  Whether you already know it or not California has a lot of options for health insurance . There are companies that we all heard of and there are some companies that we never heard of. With all the Health Insurance Companies out there you might be wondering what the differences are and which one is right for ...
  2 days ago

• The Rule of Twenties

  
  Dr. Wes — Authority: 552
  Heard from a local independent gerontologist tonight who does not accept Medicare or other insurance payments in our state: "When it comes to geriatrics, its the rule of twenties: 20 problems 20 medications 20-minute phone calls 20 minutes to take their clothes off 20 minutes to put their clothes back on. With the ...
  3 days ago

• Colorado insurers admit to providing uneven birth control coverage

  
  Colorado Independent — Authority: 615
  Colorado women offered small-group health insurance plans or looking to buy plans on the individual market and expecting them to cover birth control should be sure to read the fine print. Plans vary widely on the birth control coverage they provide, and the reasoning guiding the products on offer is often unclear. ...
  3 days ago

• Don’t Overlook Physical Security

  
  Keystone Blog — Authority: 118
  I’m very busy; I’m guessing you are too. Every day brings a new distraction or task. It doesn’t get any easier. So how would you react if someone stole all your computers? Does that add to your workload? If you’re not prepared, it might make life easier…without your business data, you might just go out of ...
  3 days ago

• Fight Health Reform -- And Win A Plasma TV: Health Insurer Says Ads Are Fake

  
  TPMMuckraker — Authority: 773
  Last week, we learned that Facebook users could win virtual currency for use in online games by sending an email to Congress opposing health-care reform. In response, both the health insurers coalition thought to be behind the ads, and the P.R. firm hired by the coalition, claimed ignorance. A spokesman for the ...
  5 days ago

• Wellpoint Individual Health Plans

  
  Health Insurance Blog — Authority: 422
  According to a recent research report written by Debra A. Donahue of Mark Farrah and Associates, the individual health insurance marketplace is growing.  As of the end of Q2 2009, national individual health insurance enrollment totaled about 9.7 Million, up from about 9.6 Million from the previous year.  This ...
  5 days ago

• Green-Washing At Blue Cross

  
  Providence Daily Dose — Authority: 543
  ProJo columnist Edward Fitzpatrick casts a gimlet eye on the new biodegradable/compostable/recyclable Blue Cross office building and sees right through to the offices, cafeteria and gym which happen to have sweeping views of Waterplace Park and beyond. The costs of this new building are apparently to be borne by the ...
  1 week ago

• Health Insurance Giant Denies Funding Astroturf Facebook Ads

  
  Mediaite — Authority: 782
  On We dnesday, Business Insider reported that Facebook users were being plied with virtual cash (for games like Mafia Wars) to email their Senators to oppose a public health insurance option. The health insurance industry-backed website to which the ads directed users, Get Health Reform Right , is down today. We ...
  1 week ago

• Top PPO Health Plans in California

  
  Health Insurance Blog — Authority: 422
  The state of California has launched a website that will help California residents select the best PPO health plan for their needs.  The site contains both summary ratings as well as more detailed underlying metrics of each plan measured. California has provided similar information to HMO customers since 2002. ...
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• Happy Hour: Yes, We’re Still Giggling About The Tree

  
  Nashvillest — Authority: 429
  We asked our Twitter friends for some artistic renderings of the Great Christmas Tree Incident of ‘09 and they delivered. The above piece was submitted by Twitterers @the_beer_snob and @tndotcom , and you can see a few of our other favorites by @missbethd , @thomasruns , @justwinston , @tarajackson and ...
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• What is Left?

  
  Kmareka.com — Authority: 432
  Last night, for about the millionth time I stood with a small group freezing our garbanzos in front of the State House at the ‘Cost of Delay’ vigil sponsored by Moveon.org. There were about forty of us, some doctors, nurses, business owners, parents. We were standing up for, essentially, universal health care. ...
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• Behavioral Underwriting With Biometric Employee Screenings – Red Brick Secures 3 More Clients

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 533
  With the recent changes in the interpretation of the GINA law as relates to assessments, the wellness portions of such programs may be subject to change.  Read through this press release and it states that biometric screening is part of a full package.  Having read prior articles on the internet the devices can ...
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• Freshman Senators Fight for Lower Costs in Health Care

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 634
      Sue Conrad, an AFSCME retiree, is one of the thousands of union members fighting for health care reform.         Today in the U.S. Senate, 11 first-term senators are introducing a package of amendments that will improve the Senate’s health care bill by getting health care costs ...
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• Small Hospital Places A Bet With Big Insurance

  
  Better Health — Authority: 511
  Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts and Caritas Christi Health System are announcing a new agreement that some suggest may be a model for the rest of the country. Under it, the non-profit insurer will stop paying the non-profit hospital on a fee-for-service basis for certain insureds: Under the deal expected ...
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• The Facts on Health Care Reform

  
  Healthcare Technology News — Authority: 534
  Will the reform bills passed in the House and Senate raise or lower premiums? The health insurance industry has recently funded two studies that purported to show that health care reform legislation would cause premiums to rise substantially. An AHIP commissioned study by PriceWaterhouseCoopers predicted a 111% ...
  2 weeks ago

• Whose Study of ObamaCare Premium Increases is More Reliable?

  
  John Goodman's Health Policy Blog — Authority: 482
  The Blue Cross study is in fact more precise than CBO’s because it is based on real market data, rather than modeling assumptions. The association mined the actuarial data from its six million individual or small-business policies, nearly one-eighth of those sold in the U.S. Full report in The Wall Street ...
  2 weeks ago

• Blue Cross Blue Shield rate increase, Obama lies, Blue Cross Blue Patients, ObamaCare study, Premiums rise 54%, Congressional Budget Office, Pelosi and Reid lies

  
  Citizen Wells — Authority: 549
  More Obama Lies   ****  Update  Below 12/7/09, 1:05 PM ET  ****  Weeks before I read the Wall Street Journal article below, I knew that ObamaCare would raise rates for existing health care policy holders and that the impact would happen sooner than later. Several weeks ago, a close personal friend informed ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Absolute Truth About Health Care

  
  kavips — Authority: 120
  So of course we are being fed a bunch of lies about health care; the headwater of all mistruths being the top echelons of the Health Insurance industry…. So where does one find truth? That is an easy answer. One looks at reality… Let’s take a look at other nations and see what works and what doesn’t…. ...
  2 weeks ago

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