Archive for April, 2010

Healthcare overhaul won’t stop premium increases

Monday, April 26th, 2010

Public outrage over double-digit rate hikes for health insurance may have helped push President Obama’s healthcare overhaul across the finish line, but the new law does not give regulators the power to block similar increases in the future. And now, with some major companies already moving to boost premiums …
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Judge rejects insurers’ rate requests

Monday, April 26th, 2010

A Suffolk Superior Court Judge has denied a request from
Massachusetts health insurers to temporarily reinstate small business
health insurance premium increases — the same proposed increases that
were rejected by the state’s Division of Insurance.

The DOI rejected the rates earlier this month, saying they were
excessive. The DOI instructed …
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Republicans Maintain Calls For Repeal As Health Reform Reverberations Continue

Monday, April 26th, 2010

The Hill: House Republican Leader John Boehner said
Monday that repealing the new health care law will be Republicans’
“‘No. 1 priority’ … if [the GOP] wins back control of Congress this
fall. … Republicans have talked up a strategy of ‘repeal …
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COBRA Subsidies Continued, Medicare Cuts Delayed

Monday, April 26th, 2010

President Barack Obama signed legislation Thursday night extending
extra unemployment benefits through May, including subsidies to help the
laid-off buy health insurance under so-called COBRA rules, The New York Times reports. “The measure, which
would continue added unemployment benefits and other expired federal
programs through May, will restore …
wonder what this really means

Humana Ensuring Young Adults Have No Gap In Health Coverage Before Provision Of Health Reform Law Takes Effect

Monday, April 26th, 2010

Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM) announced today that it will extend health insurance coverage for young adults currently covered by their parents’ Humana health plans during what otherwise could have been a gap in their coverage. Young adults whose Humana coverage would have ended at some point this spring or …
so interesting

Healthcare overhaul won’t stop premium increases

Saturday, April 24th, 2010

Public outrage over double-digit rate hikes for health insurance may have helped push President Obama’s healthcare overhaul across the finish line, but the new law does not give regulators the power to block similar increases in the future. And now, with some major companies already moving to boost premiums …
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Judge rejects insurers’ rate requests

Saturday, April 24th, 2010

A Suffolk Superior Court Judge has denied a request from
Massachusetts health insurers to temporarily reinstate small business
health insurance premium increases — the same proposed increases that
were rejected by the state’s Division of Insurance.

The DOI rejected the rates earlier this month, saying they were
excessive. The DOI instructed …
oh i can’t beleive it

Republicans Maintain Calls For Repeal As Health Reform Reverberations Continue

Saturday, April 24th, 2010

The Hill: House Republican Leader John Boehner said
Monday that repealing the new health care law will be Republicans’
“‘No. 1 priority’ … if [the GOP] wins back control of Congress this
fall. … Republicans have talked up a strategy of ‘repeal …
thanks for visiting today!

COBRA Subsidies Continued, Medicare Cuts Delayed

Saturday, April 24th, 2010

President Barack Obama signed legislation Thursday night extending
extra unemployment benefits through May, including subsidies to help the
laid-off buy health insurance under so-called COBRA rules, The New York Times reports. “The measure, which
would continue added unemployment benefits and other expired federal
programs through May, will restore …
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Humana Ensuring Young Adults Have No Gap In Health Coverage Before Provision Of Health Reform Law Takes Effect

Saturday, April 24th, 2010

Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM) announced today that it will extend health insurance coverage for young adults currently covered by their parents’ Humana health plans during what otherwise could have been a gap in their coverage. Young adults whose Humana coverage would have ended at some point this spring or …
this is so true