Archive for May 22nd, 2009

Oxford Health Insurance Gives Employers Quick Reference Guide for …

Friday, May 22nd, 2009

Oxford Health Insurance, owned by UnitedHealthcare, put out a quick reference guide to better understand how to protect yourself and people around you.

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DownWithTyranny!: Dueling Health Care Reform Plans

Friday, May 22nd, 2009

Their resolution is unambiguous and demands that any reform of our nation’s health care system should give consumers a choice of an affordable, federally-backed option to introduce competition in the health insurance market and contain …

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Health care cure seen in tax code

Friday, May 22nd, 2009

Today, our tax system is designed to spend $200 billion a year to help working people afford health insurance … but in a way so wasteful, we leave an incredibly large number of families still uninsured. Brewster’s tax code, you see, …

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London Free Press - Business - Feds offer credit facility for life …

Friday, May 22nd, 2009

With credit conditions easing, it is unclear to what extent Canada’s insurers will make use of the new facility. Business Headlines. Feds offer credit facility for life insurance firms. Feds sign pacts with 9 provinces for job skills …

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Health care reform: The simple, humane solution

Friday, May 22nd, 2009

The Star-Ledger - NJ.com
US citizens and policymakers only need to look north to Canada for an example of a single-payer system — universal public health insurance, …

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A Correction | Cato @ Liberty

Friday, May 22nd, 2009

The authors understand the need to reform the tax treatment of health insurance. And they understand that leveling the playing field between job-based and “individual-market” insurance amounts to a huge tax cut — even when …

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Just When You Thought the Corporate Rip-Off Schemes Couldn’t Get …

Friday, May 22nd, 2009

Using employees’ life insurance policies as a back-door way to pad the boss’s salary … wow.

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Health-Care Overhaul Could Be Funded by Levy on Employer-Paid …

Friday, May 22nd, 2009

By Lori Montgomery A new tax on employer-provided health insurance is emerging as a likely option to finance an overhaul of the nation’s health-care system, …

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Universal Health Care - Change.org: Snowe’s Trigger for a Gun That …

Friday, May 22nd, 2009

Snowe’s trial balloon now is that people would only be offered a public health insurance option a few years down the road, if private insurance doesn’t offer enough comprehensive plans at affordable costs. The public plan would have to …

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Are Patients in Universal Healthcare Countries Less Satisfied …

Friday, May 22nd, 2009

Each of these systems is very complex, most are a mixture of public and private hospitals, and public and private insurance. Universal health insurance, it should be clear does not mean we have to have a single-payer system like Canada, …

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