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3 hrs ago | KRMG-AM Tulsa

Arizona OK's Medicaid Expansion

The expansion vote, which took place during a special state budget session last week, allows more Arizonans with low incomes to qualify for health insurance coverage.

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Related Topix: Healthcare Law, Arizona, Law, Arizona Government, Medicaid, Health

7 hrs ago | The Huffington Post

Young Adults Want Health Insurance, Don't Feel 'Invincible,' New Obamacare Poll Shows

U.S. President Barack Obama speaks about Affordable Care Act at The Fairmont Hotel on June 7, 2013 in San Jose, California.

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

Tue Jun 18, 2013

P&T Community

Feds Seek Broad Payment Options for Health Insurance Customers

According to a report from the Kaiser Family Foundation, federal health officials have proposed that all health plans selling insurance on the new online marketplaces must allow easy payment options for households without bank accounts or credit cards.

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Hispanic Business

Aetna Leaving California's Individual Health Insurance Market

Aetna Inc. said it would stop selling individual health insurance policies in California next month, and nearly 50,000 existing policyholders will have to find new coverage by January.

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Related Topix: Aetna, Insurance, Health, Healthcare Law, Law

Free Republic

Aetna will exit California's individual health insurance market

Aetna Inc. said it would stop selling individual health insurance policies in California next month, and nearly 50,000 existing policyholders will have to find new coverage by January.

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Related Topix: Aetna, Insurance, Health, Healthcare Law, Law

WAVE-TV Louisville

Nonprofit launches campaign to reach uninsured

A nonprofit group helping to spread the word about President Barack Obama's health care overhaul launched a campaign Tuesday that will target states with high numbers of uninsured Americans and tackle their skepticism with straightforward messages.

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Related Topix: Non-Profit, US Politics, Barack Obama, US News, US Senate, Democrat, Florida, OH, Health

New Hampshire Public Radio -

Some States Will Make It Easier To Get Insurance Answers

Next year, when insurance marketplaces open under the federal health law and many job-based and individual plans have to meet new standards for coverage and costs, chances are that lots of people are going to need a hand navigating the system .

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Related Topix: Answers.com, Answers Corporation, Healthcare Law, Law, District of Columbia Government, Washington DC, Health

Iol.co.za

No money, no treatment for poor

The was the harsh diagnosis presented by Professor Hoosen Coovadia, emeritus professor of paediatrics and child health, to the Discovery Volunteer Forum in uMhlanga.

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Related Topix: Health, National Health Insurance, Insurance

WIFR

157 in Illinois Apply for Health Outreach Dollars

More than 150 community groups in Illinois have applied for $28 million in federal funding to educate the public about new opportunities for health insurance under the national health law.

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Related Topix: Health, Pat Quinn, US Governors

Mon Jun 17, 2013

Roll Call

Health Care and Immigration: Uncomfortable Bedfellows

Gutierrez, who has led the Congressional Hispanic Caucus' immigration efforts, has said the two parties don't see eye to eye on who should have access to health care.

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Related Topix: Immigration Reform, US News, Illegal Immigration, Health, US Politics, Luis Gutierrez, US House of Representatives, Democrat

KOB-TV New Mexico

Health insurance increases loom for state workers

More than 30,000 state and local government workers face a 15 percent increase for their health care insurance starting next month, but it could be only the beginning of higher costs as New Mexico's self-insurance program digs out of a financial hole.

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The Nation

Health Insurance Lobby Gears Up to Defeat Effort to Strengthen Obamacare in California

As part of what advocates call the "next step" of the Affordable Care Act, California voters will consider an initiative next year that will empower regulators and consumer advocates to challenge health insurance premium rate hikes.

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Related Topix: California, California Government, Medicine

Forbes.com

The Affordable Care Act -- What Businesses Need to Know

English: President Barack Obama's signature on the health insurance reform bill at the White House, March 23, 2010.

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Related Topix: Health, Non-Profit, Tax, Business News

GPB.org

To Find Out How The Health Law Affects You, Ask The President

Call it the Affordable Care Act, call it Obamacare, call it whatever you want it's coming.

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Bellingham Herald

Obamacare's big question: What's it going to cost me?

But nagging cost questions will slowly be answered this summer as insurers and state officials set 2014 health plan rates for people who buy coverage outside of work or purchase it through small employers.

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Related Topix: Healthcare Law, Law, Health

Sun Jun 16, 2013

Washington Post

Republicans trying to use health-care law to derail Obama's immigration reform efforts

Sen. Marco Rubio speaks at the Faith and Freedom Coalition Road to Majority Conference in Washington on Thursday.

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Related Topix: Immigration Reform, US News, US Politics, Senator Marco Rubio, US Senate, Republican, Illegal Immigration, Health, Senator Mike Lee

Wall Street Journal

Will Employers Stop Offering Health Insurance?

Major provisions of the 2010 health-care-overhaul law will take effect in January.

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Related Topix: Health, Financial Services, Automatic Data Processing

Forbes.com

It's The Cost-Sharing, Stupid: Health Care Spending Is Slowing...

President George W. Bush addresses his remarks to an audience during his participation at a panel discussion Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2006, at the Minneapolis Marriott Southwest in Minnetonka, Minn., offering perspectives on efforts to enhance health care transparency and move towards a value-based health care competition.

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Related Topix: George Bush, W., Frank Caliendo, Minnetonka, MN, Health, Business News

PR-inside.com

Comparison Tools for Buying Health Insurance Plans

16,June,2013: It doesn't matter if you are looking for the policies for the organizations, individuals or families; we are able to offer an all inclusive service to assist in all aspects of buying health insurance to match your individual circumstances.

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Journal

Broadway actor presents one-man play at The Grand

A Broadway actor who has performed across the country will present a one-man play at 7 p.m., Sunday, June 16 at The Grand Center for Arts & Culture, 210 N Minnesota.

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Related Topix: Health, Arts, Theater