Lakeport employees, retirees ask council to reconsider higher health insurance costs
LAKEPORT Facing a 134-percent increase in their share of health insurance premiums, close to two dozen city employees, retirees and their family members attended the Lakeport City Council meeting on Tuesday to ask the council to reconsider putting that financial burden on them.
Colo. unveils health plan
DENVER- A new health-insurance plan for Coloradans who were denied coverage because of pre-existing conditions began accepting applications Tuesday. The plan, called Getting Us Covered, is open to Colorado residents who are U.S. citizens and have been uninsured for at least six months.
UPDATE: Health Net Settles Conn. Suit Involving Lost Data
UPDATE: Health Net Settles Conn. Suit Involving Lost Data
Health Net Settles Connecticut Privacy Suit Involving Lost Data
Health Net Settles Connecticut Privacy Suit Involving Lost Data
Health care, gambling proposals don’t make ballot
Michigan opponents of the federal health care overhaul said Tuesday they will keep fighting the plan, even though their grass-roots bid to allow voters to weigh in on the issue has failed.
No health coverage? How to cope
The health care overhaul passed earlier this year will help many uninsured get coverage starting in 2014. But until then, Americans who lose employer coverage may find buying insurance on their own unaffordable.
Merkel Raises German Health-Insurance Premiums to Plug Deficit
Chancellor Angela Merkels coalition backed higher health-insurance premiums, a move critics from her own party said will fail to curb rising health-care costs and might undermine the German economic recovery.
Group of Jackson doctors says Allegiance Health’s exclusivity agreement with insurer means less competition and higher …
Some Jackson doctors say patients have less choice and higher costs because Allegiance Health effectively blocks competing medical facilities from insurance contracts.Allegiance CEO Georgia Fojtasek acknowledged her hospital is a “selective provider” for Priority Health insurance meaning it is…
Health Highlights: June 22, 2010
Title: Health Highlights: June 22, 2010 Category: Health News Created: 6/22/2010 12:10:00 PM Last Editorial Review: 6/23/2010
Feedback sought on uniform health insurance form
Public comments are invited on a proposed uniform health insurance application to be used by all Illinois health insurers beginning next year. A group drafting the new application form is holding a public hearing Thursday in Chicago and by …