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Rate of employer health insurance coverage stabilizes
Reuters
The poll provides a snapshot of health coverage in the United States as the country prepares for sweeping changes under President Barack Obama's healthcare reform law, which is expected to extend coverage to as many as 38 million people beginning in ...
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US sticks to limits on health insurance charges for older people
Reuters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration on Friday finalized new consumer safeguards for health insurance that impose tighter restrictions on what insurers can charge older customers, despite industry warnings that the young may be forced to ...
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Big health insurance rate hikes are plummeting
Washington Post (blog)
One other possible explanation: Over this time period, there has also been a big slowdown in the rate of health care cost growth. That began in 2009, so it's not completely impossible that the health insurance industry, noticing that trend, began ...
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HHS credits health law with big drop in premium hikes
The Hill (blog)
The number of double-digit hikes to health insurance premiums has fallen dramatically because of President Obama's healthcare law, the Health and Human Services Department said Friday. The average increase in health insurance premiums has fallen ...
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The Experts: How to Fix Health Care
Wall Street Journal
What single change could be made to the current health-care reimbursement system to help bring down costs? Recent Journal Report articles on the future of Accountable Care Organizations and the expansion of Medicaid have touched on the issue of cost ...
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Steven Brill's Opus on Health Care
Slate Magazine (blog)
In addition to providing insurance services, a key service that a proper health insurance company provides is bargaining with hospitals so you get screwed less. No insurer worth anything would actually pay the crazy-high rates hospitals charge to ...
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Slate Magazine (blog)
How to pay for smokers' health care
Washington Post
The solution to covering the extra health-care costs incurred by smokers without making health insurance unaffordable to those who need it is very simple: Let the insurance companies figure out the additional cost and then collect that as a surcharge ...
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55000 in Pa. lost health-care aid between July and December
Philadelphia Inquirer
Nearly 55,000 fewer Pennsylvanians were getting medical assistance in December 2012 compared with July, according to a new state Department of Public Welfare report, in many cases as an apparent side effect of the elimination of another program.
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Employer-based health coverage hits new low
The Hill (blog)
The economy added roughly 1.8 million jobs last year, but the percentage of people getting healthcare benefits through their employer held steady at 44.5 percent — nearly 5 percentage points lower than 2008 levels, and 0.1 percentage points lower than ...
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Fewer Americans Getting Health Insurance From Employer
Gallup.com
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Fewer Americans reported having employer-based health insurance in 2012 than did in 2008, 2009, and 2010, but at 44.5% it is unchanged from 2011. At the same time, more Americans continue to report having a government-based ...
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