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The insured and the unsure
The Economist
"IF YOU like your health-care plan, you can keep your health-care plan." That was what Barack Obama promised, time and again, to voters nervous about his plans to shake up America's health-care system. It was an empty promise, a bit like saying: "If ...
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Vermont gov wants more time on$1.6B health plan
San Francisco Chronicle
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — After two years of pressure to say how it was going to pay for its single-payer health care plan, Gov. Peter Shumlin's administration on Thursday released a new accounting of what Vermont's universal health care system might ...
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Smokers face high health care premium
San Antonio Express
WASHINGTON — Millions of smokers could be priced out of health insurance because of tobacco penalties in President Barack Obama's health care law, according to experts who are just now teasing out the potential impact of a little-noted provision in ...
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Health Care Spending
New York Times
Re "Health Care Drives Increase in Government Spending" (FiveThirtyEight, Jan. 17): The data geek in me enjoyed Nate Silver's article about trends in federal spending. But its concluding point, suggesting that we may not want the government to play the ...
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Public wants deficit reduction but not programs cuts: polling data
Chicago Tribune
A joint survey by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Harvard School of Public Health and the Kaiser Family Foundation also showed majorities support President Barack Obama's plan to expand Medicaid and provide subsidized private health ...
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S.C. House votes against creating health insurance exchange
Anderson Independent Mail
The GOP-controlled House approved the "State Health Care Freedom Act" on a 65-44 party-line vote. The measure serves as an endorsement of Republican Gov. Nikki Haley's refusal to embrace a key part of the federal health-care legislation that President ...
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Cook County CEO wants to sell health insurance
ModernHealthcare.com
Dr. Ramanathan Raju wants Cook County hospital to get into the health insurance business, selling plans on a statewide health insurance exchange, a move he says could generate much-needed revenue. The ambitious proposal by the CEO of the Cook ...
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Should Health Insurance Be Like Car Insurance?
Smartmoney.com
Car insurance companies reward good behavior: Drivers with records free of 15-car pileups and tickets for doing 90 in a 55 pay cheaper premiums. Health insurers, on the other hand, offer people little incentive to stay out of harm's (and doctor's) way.
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Lawmakers OK agency to oversee federal health insurance
Lynchburg News and Advance
RICHMOND – With some legislators saying a federal health-care exchange is likely to be set up in Virginia next year, lawmakers agreed to create a state panel to monitor insurance companies that provide the health insurance. Del. Kathy Byron, R-Bedford ...
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School district charts jump in health-insurance costs
Westport-News
The Segal Company senior vice president Robert Pernicka discusses the Westport school district's employee health-insurance spending during a Board of Education meeting at Staples High School. Monday, Jan. 22, 2013/Westport, CT. Photo: Paul Schott ...
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