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2 hrs ago | Milwaukee Journal-Sentinal

Zane Benefits Publishes New Information on Health Savings Accounts

Today, Zane Benefits, Inc. published new information on health savings accounts .

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Related Topix: Tax, Health

6 hrs ago | Wall St. Cheat Sheet

Will Obamacare Actually Make Workers Cheaper to Insure?

Before the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was enacted into law, approximately 150 million Americans received health insurance through their jobs.

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Related Topix: Health

7 hrs ago | Deming Headlight

Small businesses benefit from Affordable Care Act

For years, we had a health insurance market that was broken for small businesses.

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Related Topix: Small Business, Personal Finance, Health, Opinion

11 hrs ago | Go Local

Smart Benefits: Expect Double-Digit Health Insurance Hikes in 2014

Starting January 1, 2014, larger employer groups in RI that are fully insured will pay much more in medical insurance premiums.

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Related Topix: Health

11 hrs ago | OpEdNews

Health Insurance in America: Legalized Extortion

Included in yesterday's mail were two ominous envelopes, one addressed to me, the other to my wife.

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Related Topix: Health, US News, Liberal Political News

Sun May 19, 2013

Detroit Free Press

A Republican inability to learn, or adapt: Stephen Henderson

A draft copy of the 21 page Department of Health and Human Services form proposed for use to apply for low-cost insurance from Medicaid or the Children's Health Insurance Program.

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Related Topix: US News, Healthcare Law, Law, Medicaid, Health, Rick Snyder, US Governors, Michigan

ConsumerAffairs.Com

If you think it's expensive to stay healthy, just try getting sick

ConsumerAffairs' culture and lifestyle reporter, Daryl Nelson has written for Readers Digest, Townsquare Media, AllHipHop.com and a number of other online and print publications.

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Related Topix: Health

MLive.com

Natalie Burg: Michigan's detours into social issues won't help attract young talent

KNOW YOUR CUSTOMER: Millennials appreciate Michigan's place-making efforts, writers Natalie Burg, but the state won't have much success selling itself to young talent with outdated attitudes on social issues such as gay marriage.

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Related Topix: Michigan, Michigan Government, Gay/Lesbian, Health

Forbes.com

Two Obamacare Mandates That Dramatically Expand The Internal Revenue Service's Power

Much of the talk in the news this week regards the appalling scandal involving IRS targeting of conservative non-profit groups.

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Related Topix: Tax, Non-Profit, Health, US News, Healthcare Industry

The Tennessean

Health law may penalize some Native Americans

When Liz DeRouen needs any kind of health care services, from diabetes counseling to a dental cleaning, she checks into a government-funded clinic in Northern California's wine country that covers all her medical needs.

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Related Topix: Health, Tax, us Travel, Travel

The Charlotte Observer

BCBS influence waning with NC lawmakers

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina is used to having considerable clout in the legislature.

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Related Topix: Healthcare Law, Law, Health, Winston-Salem, NC, Albemarle, NC

Sat May 18, 2013

Arkansas Online

NPCC 1 of 7 schools to assist state, train health care guides

At the last minute, the 2013 session of the Arkansas Legislature created the Health Insurance Marketplace, a private insurance option for expanding government-subsidized health care coverage to more than 250,000 additional Arkansas residents.

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Related Topix: Arkansas, Arkansas Government, Health

SeacoastOnline

Health care showdown: Pressure mounts for Medicaid expansion

Jim Stott, co-owner of Stonewall Kitchen, left, speaks about once needing a bone marrow transfusion and wonders, if he didn't have health insurance at the time, what would have been the outcome.

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Related Topix: Healthcare Law, Law, Medicaid, Health, US Politics, Ron Paul, US News, Republican, US House of Representatives, Maine, US Governors, Paul LePage

The Oregonian

HSAs: For your financial health, examine your health savings account

President Bush, second from right, speaks during his roundtable discussion on health savings accounts in 2008 in Oklahoma City.

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Related Topix: Health, Personal Finance, Retirement, IRA, Mutual Funds

The Billings Outpost

Medicaid arguments don't quite add up

Republicans must be getting nervous about their refusal to expand Medicaid in Montana.

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Related Topix: Healthcare Law, Law, Medicaid, Health, Billings, MT, Lottery

CBS Local

Confused By Health Care Marketplaces? Help Is Coming

May 8, 2013 - Now that the federal government is building health insurance Marketplaces in 34 states, the question is: Will customers come? The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services , the government division overseeing the roll out of the new Marketplaces, is getting ready.

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Related Topix: Health, Medicare, Medicaid

US News & World Report

Oregon Health Study Gives an Inaccurate Picture of Medicaid

Imagine an academic study that is so well-timed, so relevant to a current policy debate, that it's widely cited to support a major policy decision.

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Related Topix: Healthcare Law, Law, Medicaid, Health, Oregon Government, Oregon, Opinion

Fri May 17, 2013

Burnt Orange Report

Affordable Care Act Brings $10 Million to Texas Health Centers

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has made in important step in implementing the Affordable Care Act by providing $9.8 million to Federally Qualified Community Health Centers in Texas to help them offer in-person enrollment assistance to uninsured Texans.

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Related Topix: Texas, US Politics, US News, US House of Representatives, Gene Green, Democrat, Liberal Political News

Reuters

Two states say 2014 Obamacare insurance costs on low side

In a boost for President Barack Obama's healthcare reform law, two states in the Northwest said on Friday that insurance companies submitted applications to sell policies on the states' health insurance exchanges at rates well below what some insurance executives had predicted.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, Health

Fox 23

Fallin urges Okla. Legislature for health care fix

Gov. Mary Fallin is proposing a last-minute legislative change to the state's Insure Oklahoma program that would direct $50 million in state tobacco taxes to pay for more than 9,000 Oklahomans who are expected to lose their health insurance under the program.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Representative Mary Fallin, Republican, US House of Representatives, Healthcare Law, Law, Mary Fallin, US Governors, Oklahoma Government, Oklahoma