Health insurance tax might crowd out benefits (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
The health-insurance excise tax that’s part of a Senate Finance Committee bill has been touted as a tax on “Cadillac” plans, but it might affect employers who think of their plan as more of a Chevy with a few nice options.
Health care issues: Insurance cooperatives (San Francisco Chronicle)
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Health care issues: Insurance cooperatives (Boston Globe)
A look at key issues in the health care debate: THE ISSUE: Are consumer-run co-ops a realistic alternative to a new government-run insurance option?
Reliance Life to strengthen its health insurance portfolio (Business Standard India)
Eyeing a place among the top-three health insurers in the country within three years, Anil Ambani group firm Reliance Life Insurance today said it is strengthening its portfolio of health insurance products in the coming months.
Government-run insurance option in health care reform in peril (Baltimore Sun)
Panel’s rejection opens door to proposal that might lure GOP vote In a long-anticipated showdown, liberal Democrats twice failed on Tuesday to inject a government-run insurance option into sweeping health care legislation taking shape in the Senate, despite bipartisan agreement that private insurers must change their ways.
Senate panel rejects gov’t health insurance option (AP via Yahoo! News)
In a long-anticipated showdown, liberal Democrats twice failed on Tuesday to inject a government-run insurance option into sweeping health care legislation taking shape in the Senate, despite bipartisan agreement that private insurers must change their ways.
Public Health Insurance Ad (KULR-8 Billings)
A group rallying for a public health insurance option ratchets up its efforts in light of the vote in the Senate Finance Committee rejecting a government run health insurance plan.
The Seltzer Group Teams with St. Luke’s Miners Memorial Hospital to Provide Insurance and Health Services (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
SCHUYLKILL HAVEN, Pa.—-Schuylkill County’s The Seltzer Group, a member of Keystone Insurers Group, announces it has formed an alliance with St. Luke’s Miners Memorial Hospital to provide medical insurance solutions and occupational health services to businesses in Luzerne, Carbon and Schuylkill Counties.
Do you Think Illegal Aliens should be Allowed to purchase Health Insurance, even from the Government? (KETK 56 Tyler)
Do you think the illegal immigrants should be allowed to purchase health care insurance-even if it’s from the government? A group of Democrats wants to include illegal aliens in the overhaul bill.
Health care debate: Dueling over insurance (Seattle Times)
A small but growing group of lawmakers has been pressing for state constitutional amendments that would outlaw a crucial element of the health-care plans under discussion in Washington: the requirement that nearly everyone buy insurance or pay a penalty.