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Health Insurance Guides and Information

General Health Insurance Articles

• World Breastfeeding Week Starts August 1
  
  
• Changes and Choices in Health Care
  
  
• Consumer-Directed Health Plans Growing In Popularity, GAO Report Says, USA
  
  
• The Vicious Cycle of Health Care Cost
  
  
• Medical identity theft on the rise as health care desperation leads to crime
  
  
• Medical tourism flourishing in Philippines while U.S. health care costs skyrocket
  
  
• Emergency Room or ER: What's Right for You Today?
  
  
• Patients rarely discuss alternative medicine with doctors, study finds
  
  
• 46.6 million Americans now have no health insurance: Uninsured gap widens
  
  
• Most Americans agree smokers should pay more for health insurance
  
  
• Low Premiums Do Not Mean Affordable Health Insurance
  
  
• Two-fifths of US adults report experiencing unsafe, wasteful or poorly coordinated health care (press release)
  
  
• High Deductible Health Insurance Plans Penalize Women
  
  
• CAHI Releases 'Understanding the Uninsured'
  
  
• Wal-Mart, Partners Launch 'Better Health Care Together' Campaign
  
  
• Producers Not Selling Long-Term Care Insurance to Be Focus of Industry Association Meetings
  
  
• Lack of health insurance may be associated with increased rates of stroke
  
  
• High-Deductible Health Insurance Plans Too Risky for Children
  
  
• Health Insurance Is The Focus of Latest INQUIRY Journal
  
  
• People with genetic conditions twice as likely to report health insurance denial
  
  
• Average age of Canadians looking online for critical illness health insurance quotes
  
  
• Health Insurance for Seniors on the Web
  
  
• AHIP Announces Proposal to Expand Access to Health Insurance Coverage to Every American
  
  
• Health Insurance Plans and Pharmacists Launch National Medicare Part D Education Campaign
  
  
• 4.5 Million Enrolled in Health Savings Account Plans
  

Business Health Insurance Articles

• Bottom Line Health
  
  
• Companies turn to in-house health clinics to control skyrocketing health care costs
  
  
• Small Business Health Insurance is Priority for Realtors and Should Be for Congress
  
  
• Employer Mandate Costs Small Businesses
  
  
• Consumer-Driven Healthcare Plans Are Growing, but Some Employees Confused
  
  
• More Companies Are Offering Consumer-Directed Health Insurance Plans
  

Economics and Health Insurance Articles

• Health care costs are bankrupting employers, employees, surveys find
  
  
• Confronting the rising costs of health care urgent priority
  
  
• Children's Health Insurance Plan Issues New Income Guidelines
  
  

Medicare and Medicade Articles and Information

• CMS approved description of the Connecticut Pharmaceutical Assistance Contract to the Elderly (ConnPACE)
  
  
• New Medicaid rule may deny health care to millions of poor Americans
  
  
• Medicare Drug Plans Strong and Growing
  
  
• No Medicare Part D Late Fee For Low-Income Beneficiaries
  
  
• New study cautions states on changes to Medicaid
  
  
• Medicare Recipients Warned to Resist Aggressive Marketing
  
  
• Medicare proposes expanded coverage of Angioplasty
  
  
• Medicare Announces Additional Collaborative in Arizona
  
  
• Medicare Announces Additional Collaborative In California
  
  
• All Low-Income Newborns To Receive Equal Access To Medicaid
  
  

State Specific Health Insurance Articles and Information

• Minnesota takes steps to recognize complementary, alternative medicine; huge health care cost savings expected
  
  
• San Francisco approves universal health care coverage
  
  
• Texas Children Must Have Health Care Coverage
  
  
• Free or Low-Cost Quality Health Insurance Is Available to Rockland Families
  
  
• Nebraskans Warned To Be On Alert For Medicare Scams
  
  
• New Maryland Health Care Act Provides Expanded Access To Health Care
  
  
• Massachusetts: 45,000 Now Enrolled In Health Insurance Coverage
  
  
• Massachusetts Insurers Set Out to Enroll Working Poor
  
• Iowa As First To Add Home And Community-Based Services To Medicaid State Plan
  
  
• Georgia State Senator Proposes Market-Based Health Insurance Reform
  
  
• California Health Reform Bills Would Expand Children’s Coverage, But Shrink From Comprehensive Reform of Industry
  
  
• New office opening in Spokane to better serve customers in Eastern Washington
  
  

Articles and Information About Health Insurance Carriers

• Aetna To Announce First Quarter 2007 Results (press release)
  
  
• Aetna Releases Broadest Study To Date Of Consumer-Directed Plans
  
  
• Aetna Opens Office In Sacramento (press release)
  
  
• Aetna Endorses Effort To Simplify Transactions for Health Care Providers (press release)
  
  
• Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield Unveils Initiative to Measure the Health of Its Members
  
  
• Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield Launches 'RightPlan PPO 40' a New Health Insurance Option for Nevadans Seeking Individual Coverage
  
  
• Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield Keeps Promise to Members: Enhanced Consumer-Driven Health Plans and Services Now Available to Individuals and Small Businesses
  
  
• Atlantis Health Plan Announces: Manhattan Medical Group Now Open for Business!
  
  
• Queens celebrates healthy new business with Atlantis Health Plan
  
  
• Blue Cross of California Delivers $2.68 Million to Community Organizations in 2006
  
  
• NCQA Recognizes Blue Cross of California for Physician and Hospital Quality Measures
  
  
• Blue Shield CEO Praises Legislative Leaders for Pushing Coverage Expansion
  
  
• West Virginia Selects Coventry Health Care To Provide Retiree Health Benefits
  
  
• Celtic introduces qualified high deductible health savings account plan
  
  
• New Low-Cost Basic Health Coverage for Individuals Introduced by Celtic Insurance Company
  
  
• HSAs, future of heath insurance discussed at Chamber forum
  
  
• Study Reveals Virtual Patient-Doctor webVisitsSM Increase Patient Satisfaction and Access to Physician Care
  
  
• HIP & GHI Agree To Merge To Create Largest Health Insurer In New York State
  
  
• New Lower Cost Health Insurance Now Available to North Carolina Individuals and Families from Golden Rule
  
  
• Golden Rule Introduces Mutual Fund Investment Options, Debit Cards & Online Account Management Tools for Health Savings Account
  Customers
  
  
• Golden Rule Introduces New, Affordable Temporary Health Insurance For Individuals and Families During Times of Transition, Change
  
  
• Dental coverage available with HumanaOne Individual Health Plan
  
  
• City of Milwaukee selects Humana HMO, joins BHCGSW
  
  
• UniCare Extends Lower Cost Health Care Coverage To Individuals And Families
  
  
• Cost Care, Inc. Receives URAC Health Utilization Management Accreditation
  
  

Articles Regarding Dental Insurance

• Affordable Dental Insurance-Ever Heard Of It?
  
  
• Low Cost Dental Savings For You
  
  
• Understanding The Fine Print Of Dental Insurance Plans And Supplemental Dental Care Coverage
  
  

Political Articles and Information Regarding Health Insurance

• Congress Asked To Ensure Health Insurance Coverage For CF Kids
  
  
• Health Insurance Mandates Aren't the Answer to Uninsured
  
  
• The health care reform legislation that Congress should pass, but won't
  
  
• Bill to Improve Access to Physical Therapist Services Under Medicare Introduced
  
  
• Nine million children left uninsured by America's health care system
  
  
• U.S. health care reform? Status quo profits handsomely the way things are
  
  
• Health care spending in United States to double over 10 years as "sick care" industry bankrupts America
  
  
• Health Care Costs Rising
  
  
• Fixing Health Care
  
  
• Where The Money Goes
  
  
• A New Healthcare Financing Solution
  
  
• US health system getting worse
  
  
• Bush Health Care Plan Triggers Debate
  
  
• Tax Change for US Health Insurance: Bush's Agenda
  
  
• Bush's Standard Deduction for Health Insurance Would Save Money
  
  
• Schwarzenegger Health Insurance Plan Would Drive Up Costs
  
  

PDF articles

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• Why the United States Has No National Health Insurance: Stakeholder Mobilization Against the Welfare State, 1945-1996
  
  
• The Benefits of Medical Research and the Role of the NIH
  
  
• Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2004
  
  
• The Not So Short Introduction to Health Care
  
  
• Working Together for Health - The World Health Report 2006
  
  

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