November 20, 2012 4:16 pm by JULIE APPLEBY, | 0 Comments
Long-awaited details on how insurers can structure health benefits and premiums for policies that will cover tens of millions of Americans starting in 2014 were released by the Obama administration ...
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November 14, 2012 4:31 pm by JULIE APPLEBY, | 0 Comments
New online insurance markets set to begin selling health coverage to consumers next October may be hampered by delays in launching a key computer program, according to state consultants and ...
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George C. Halvorson, CEO of Kaiser Permanente, discusses his plans to invest a billion dollars in a Washington, D.C., expansion, his thoughts on premium cost comparisons, and the health law's ...
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September 4, 2012 2:43 pm by JULIE APPLEBY, | 0 Comments
Even as many states gear up for tougher insurance regulations under the federal health law, Maine lawmakers last year bucked the trend, loosening rules they blamed for some of the ...
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The debate over a new treatment for depression has all the elements a new panel was set up to resolve: There's conflict over its effectiveness, it isn’t cheap, and it ...
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Christine Curtis of Sterling says she is a "happy mom" again, crediting her recovery from debilitating depression to an expensive treatment that sends magnetic pulses into the brain. "I can't ...
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