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Health care providers want faster changes in payments
USA TODAY
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said the government is leading health care reform in those areas, including with new Medicare payment plans aimed at rewarding cost-effective care. She called the current system "ineffective" and ...
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Health care tops to-do list for Ark. lawmakers
San Francisco Chronicle
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas lawmakers face a daunting to-do list as they try to wrap up this year's session by a self-imposed Friday deadline. From a proposal to expand health insurance to 250,000 people to finalizing the state's $4.9 billion ...
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Health care: Denial is shameful
Charleston Gazette
ObamaCare lets states extend Medicaid coverage to families earning up to 138 percent of the federal poverty level. In West Virginia, this would add health insurance for 120,000 "working poor" people. One report says it would provide care for 2,600 ...
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Employer Health Insurance in Rapid Decline Across US -- and Not in MA
Boston.com
A new report on state-by-state trends in employer-sponsored health insurance (ESI) caught my eye both for the national and Massachusetts trends, comparing 1999/2000 with 2010/2011. Bottom line from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation-funded State ...
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Study: Health Law To Raise Claims Cost 32 Percent
WRIC
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A new study finds that insurance companies will have to pay out an average of 32 percent more for medical claims under President Barack Obama's health care overhaul. What does that mean for you? It could increase premiums for at ...
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Health care reform looks expensive to Modesto-area workers, businesses
Modesto Bee
MODESTO -- When a severe rash sent Ryan McGee of Salida to an emergency room last month, he didn't have health insurance to help pay the bill. "It cost $500 just to be there, and I haven't even gotten the bill from the doctor," said McGee, 25. He ...
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Modesto Bee
Eau Claire city, county and school district may form joint health insurance pool
Leader-Telegram
The city of Eau Claire, Eau Claire County and the Eau Claire school district have attempted to curb rising health insurance costs by implementing such measures as wellness plans. But those costs continue to rise. Since 2009, those three public sector ...
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The costs of rejecting the "private option" and doing nothing
Arkansas Times (blog)
Around 170,000 low-income adults will continue to go without insurance. People like Melissa Farrell, a hard-working mother of two trying to better her situation. She doesn't make enough money to buy health insurance or qualify for the coming exchange ...
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How health care overhaul may affect your tax bill
Sacramento Bee
If you're among millions of uninsured Californians eligible for government-subsidized insurance, the ripples of health reform start with Monday's tax deadline. The government will use your return as its first yardstick for how much of a tax break it ...
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Consumer-driven health care often like driving blind
Indianapolis Star
Indiana, like most states, doesn't require the level of price transparency needed, according to a recent report by the Catalyst for Payment Reform (a group formed by several large employers such as Boeing, AT&T, and Wal-Mart) and by the Health Care ...
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