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UnitedHealth Group Launches Product To Protect Members' Future Insurability
04.12.2008 06:20
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UnitedHealth Group on Tuesday announced a new, "first of its kind" product that allows members to pay a monthly fee to secure future health coverage, even if they become ill, the New York Times reports.
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Automakers Seek Financial Assistance; GM Proposal Includes Proposed Delay In Contributions To VEBA
04.12.2008 06:20
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Officials from the Big Three automakers on Tuesday presented to Congress individual proposals that included requests for as much as $34 billion in financial assistance to help prevent bankruptcy, as well as revisions to their obligations to a fund that will provide health benefits to United Auto Workers retirees, the
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Health Insurance, Business Lobbyists Join Discussions About Overhauling U.S. Health Care System
04.12.2008 06:20
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The Boston Globe on Wednesday examined how "[p]owerful special interest groups that helped torpedo health care reform 16 years ago are now advocating significant changes in the nation's health insurance and delivery system" and "participating in regular discussion about how to expand health coverage and lower costs.
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New York Times Examines British Cost-Effective Treatment System; Could Become Model For U.S.
04.12.2008 06:20
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The New York Times on Tuesday, in an occasional series called "The Evidence Gap," examined Britain's National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, which determines the cost-effectiveness of medication and treatments.
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Opinion Pieces Discuss Obama Administration, Health Care
04.12.2008 06:19
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Two newspapers recently printed opinion pieces about the incoming Obama administration and health care. Summaries appear below.Thomas Frank,
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Report Looks At Integration Of Health Services For Dual Eligibles; Primers Include Updated Information About Medicaid, Medicare
04.12.2008 06:19
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"Increasing the Use of the Capitated Model for Dual Eligibles: Cost Savings Estimates and Public Policy Opportunities," Association for Community Affiliated Plans/
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Loss Of Funding, Increase In Participants Likely To Cause Kentucky ADAP To Implement Waiting List
04.12.2008 06:19
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Kentucky's AIDS Drug Assistance Program -- which provides medications to low-income, uninsured and underinsured HIV-positive people -- has lost a significant portion of its federal and state funding over the past three years and may be forced to reinstate a waiting list by April, state health officials said Monday, the Lexington Herald-Leader reports.
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Lawmakers Must Act To End Gender Bias In Individual Health Insurance Market, Editorial Says
04.12.2008 06:19
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Women as a group are "particularly disadvantaged" in the individual health insurance market, a St. Petersburg Times editorial says. The editorial notes that a recent study conducted by the
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