Monday, March 3rd, 2008
At a House Small Business Committee hearing on Tuesday, Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty (R) and Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell (D) discussed strategies proposed in their states that are intended to lower health care costs and expand coverage, CQ HealthBeat reports.
Pawlenty discussed several proposed pay-for-performance initiatives, including offering incentives to providers ...
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Monday, March 3rd, 2008
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.) "misstated" the health care position of opponent Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.) during a campaign event on Thursday in Ohio, the Boston Globe reports. Under her health care proposal, all U.S. residents would have to obtain health insurance. The Obama health care proposal ...
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Monday, March 3rd, 2008
ensurApet, Inc. (OTCBB:EPTI), a provider of pet health insurance, announces that it anticipates becoming a leader in the rapidly growing US market for pet health insurance through a network of veterinary hospitals.
CEO Russell Smith stated, "The United States has the largest population of companion animals in the world, with some ...
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Thursday, February 28th, 2008
The Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) have announced that it has been selected by Blue Shield of California Foundation (BSCF) to participate in a statewide effort to reduce healthcare-associated infections (HAIs).
APIC will join BSCF and other leading health organizations to expand the Foundation's innovative California Healthcare-Associated ...
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Monday, February 25th, 2008
The number of Americans taking advantage of precautionary DNA testing appears to be going down, and the reason is thought to be fear of genetic discrimination from health insurers and employers.
Some health experts are so concerned that they have called for new legislation to protect US citizens from being discriminated ...
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Saturday, February 23rd, 2008
Los Angeles City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against Health Net, alleging that the health insurer sold individual policies to consumers with the intention of dropping coverage if they needed costly treatment, the Los Angeles Times reports. According to the lawsuit, the company defrauded thousands of policyholders ...
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Saturday, February 23rd, 2008
The California Legislative Analyst on Wednesday projected that the state's expected budget deficit has increased from $14.5 billion to $16 billion and released an alternative spending plan for lawmakers to consider, the Los Angeles Times reports. Legislative Analyst Elizabeth Hill said Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's (R) plan for a 10% across-the-board ...
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Saturday, February 23rd, 2008
CMS has ordered California-based health insurer Health Net to stop marketing and enrollment for its "Health Net Orange" Medicare prescription drug plans, according to a notice on a government Web site, Florida Health News reports. The freeze was enacted because the company failed to process enrollment applications on time and ...
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Saturday, February 23rd, 2008
Some states looking to reduce the number of uninsured residents have passed laws that allow young adults to stay on their parents' coverage longer, the AP/Houston Chronicle reports. Nearly all states, when regulating insurance plans for small- and medium-sized companies, set a maximum age for coverage of dependent children -- ...
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