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By Carla K. Johnson |
May 14, 2012
Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn may use an executive order to establish a health insurance exchange, a website where consumers could comparison shop for insurance that's a key piece of President Barack Obama's health care law, according to Quinn's chief health care adviser.
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By Allison Bell |
May 8, 2012
The U.S. voluntary insurance market may be starting to emerge from a slump.
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By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar |
May 8, 2012
It's the hottest trend in job-based health insurance: plans that give you a personal savings account for medical bills but also require you to pay a hefty share of costs before coverage kicks in. But there's a warning flag, a risk that workers will forgo needed care, even preventive services...
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May 3, 2012
Groundwork is being laid to create a statewide health insurance exchange in Kentucky intended to reduce coverage costs, but it would be used only if the federal health care reform law is upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court.
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By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar |
May 3, 2012
Medicare's payment system, the unseen but vital network that handles 100 million monthly claims, could freeze up if President Barack Obama's health care law is summarily overturned, the administration has quietly informed the courts.
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By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar |
April 23, 2012
In a blow to the Obama administration on Medicare, government auditors Monday called for the cancellation of a costly bonus program for private health plans that congressional Republicans have criticized as a wasteful political ploy.
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By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar |
April 10, 2012
A possible misunderstanding about President Barack Obama's health care overhaul could cloud Supreme Court deliberations on its fate, leaving the impression that the law's insurance requirement is more onerous than it actually is.
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By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR, Associated Press |
March 28, 2012
At least one part of the nation's health care debate is settled: Now they're all calling it Obamacare.
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By Kathryn Mayer |
March 23, 2012
It’s been quite the two years since President Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act into law on March 23, 2010. Here’s what's been implemented year-by-year.
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By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar |
March 22, 2012
House Republicans resurrected the specter of Medicare rationing Thursday in an election-year vote to repeal cost controls in President Barack Obama's health care overhaul.
