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Affordable Miami-Dade health plan gets off to slow start
Introduced a year ago with great fanfare as affordable health insurance for the masses of uninsured, Miami-Dade Blue has signed up 3,600 customers.
30 million women to benefit from health reform law
( Commonwealth Fund ) Thirty million women will benefit from the new health reform law over the next decade, either through new or strengthened insurance coverage, according to a new report from The Commonwealth Fund. The law will stabilize and reverse the growing exposure to health costs that women now experience by subsidizing health insurance for up to 15 million currently uninsured women ...
Op-Ed: Securing Medicare's future
Forty-five years ago today, the creation of Medicare transformed our health-care system and our nation. It helped to make us a stronger and more prosperous country by freeing older Americans from the fear that sickness or injury would cost them their lifetime savings and security.
Insurers change kids coverage stance after HHS clarifies new rules
Health insurers have started to back down "on their decision to pull out of the child-only coverage market after the Obama administration addressed their concerns about the potential damage to their bottom lines," The Hill reports. "The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on Tuesday clarified regulations mandating that insurance plans agree to cover sick children.
Children-Only Health Plan Rules Boost Insurers' Abilities to Control Cost
Insurers led by UnitedHealth Group Inc. and WellPoint Inc. can limit when parents buy child-only policies under an Obama administration ruling that will keep consumers from buying coverage only after their kids fall ill.
Wash. regulations would restrict pain killer prescriptions; Texas Lt. Gov. bemoans costs associated with health law ...
The New York Times: "In an unusual move, a state government is developing regulations meant to stop doctors from prescribing higher doses of powerful and often dangerous pain killers for patients who are not benefiting from them. The effort, in Washington State, represents the most sweeping attempt yet to stem what some experts see as the excessive use of prescribed narcotics, and it is ...
Citizens Property Insurance May Hike Rates
The governing board of Florida's public insurance carrier is recommending a rate hike averaging 8.4 percent statewide. The rate hike is the latest by property insurance companies including State Farm, Allstate, Royal Palm, and Castle Key. It's leaving Floridians with a bitter taste in their mouth.
MinuteClinic Forms Clinical Affiliation With St. Vincent's HealthCare in Jacksonville
MinuteClinic, the retail health care division of CVS Caremark , and St. Vincent's HealthCare, a regional health system in Northeast Florida and Southeast Georgia that includes St. Vincent's Medical Center, St.
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