Archive for December 23rd, 2009

By Robert Weisman The state attorney general’s office yesterday issued a report contending that the managed competition auto insurance system introduced in …

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Jerry Frangas that would mandate maternity health insurance in the state. Redding has been reporting for weeks on the often absurd frustrations that greet child-bearing-age women looking to buy individual or small-group health insurance …

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But I can’t think of any obvious reason why those resources should specifically take the form of non-preventive, non-catastrophic health insurance coverage as opposed to more generous Pell Grants or lower payroll taxes or whatever. …

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If health insurance companies start raising health insurance premiums for smokers or the obese, starting a running, walking, or other exercise program will save money.

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“I don’t think Congress has ever required Americans to buy a product or service, such as health insurance, under penalty of law,” Mr. Ensign said. …

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Those included health insurance, prices paid for drugs bought through government programs such as Medicare and Medicaid, information technology, …

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President Obama recently signed legislation that extended the length of the federal Cobra subsidy to up to 15 months, from 9.

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New York Times (blog)
First, the wage base out of which employment-based health insurance is financed is expected to grow 2 to 3 percent a year. On the other hand, total health …

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Twice as many eligible people are using Cobra to hold on to health insurance.

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Greenwald catalogs the explosion in health insurance company stock prices as the severely watered-down reform bill edges toward passage. By way of illustration, he notes that Susan Bayh, wife of Indiana Democratic Senator Evan Bayh and …

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