The current individual health insurance market is one in which people decide to purchase coverage only when they think they will need it. …
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Archive for July 5th, 2009
CHIP failed, but lawmakers did pass some new health insurance programs
Sunday, July 5th, 2009By Corrie maclaggan A high-profile proposal to expand the Children’s Health Insurance Program divided lawmakers this spring before fizzling out at the last …
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Health Care Reform or Promotion of the Health Insurance Industry …
Sunday, July 5th, 2009This difference in perspective explains more than anything why we seek health care reform and our political leaders respond by trying to enhance and preserve the health INSURANCE industry. PERMALINK | COMMENTS (4) | RECOMMEND RECOMMEND …
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Workers rally for health care reform - Daily Tribune: Breaking …
Sunday, July 5th, 2009Attending the rally were two women who don’t have health insurance, despite employment. Elaine Pope, 52, and Sharetha Turner, 30, both of Detroit and home-care workers, said they pray daily for survival. Pope, who said she was diagnosed …
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PointofLaw.com | PointOfLaw Forum: Adverse selection and insurance …
Sunday, July 5th, 2009Regulation of sectors like health and auto insurance is often explained as an response to market failures arising from adverse selection, but, say Alex Tabarrok and Bryan Caplan, most of the real-world elements of regulation are hard to …
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Insurance industry thinks Blunt’s four page health care memo is …
Sunday, July 5th, 2009“[Roy Blunt] is certainly very thoughtful on health care issues, and I think he showed that by the proposal they put forth,” [Robert Zirkelbach, director of strategic communications for America's Health Insurance Plans] said. …
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In Maine, Two Sides on Health Care Step Up Competition for …
Sunday, July 5th, 2009New York Times
The rally outside Senator Olympia J. Snowe’s district office here last week was small but heartfelt: a handful of locals describing health insurance …
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Paying for healthcare overhaul may fall unevenly on states
Sunday, July 5th, 2009Some of the “bluest” states that propelled Obama into the White House are among those most likely to pay more in taxes to fund expanded health insurance …
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Obama’s Health Insurance Plan Is No Panacea
Sunday, July 5th, 2009President Obama continues to push for his plan to introduce a public health insurance option. In remarks at a town hall meeting in Annandale, VA last week, …
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Show Me Progress:: The American Public Vs. Roy Blunt and Health …
Sunday, July 5th, 2009Um, Roy, you might want to take a look at the level of competition among health insurance companies in Missouri. In your own district, 94% of Joplin’s citizens are insured by a single insurance company. …
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