Public Option Back at Center Stage as Health Care ...       November 2, 2009
News: After months of work, House Democratic leaders last week finished cobbling together a 1,900-page reform bill, pulling provisions from measures that three House committees passed this summer while amending, dropping and adding others, ...
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Latest Health Reform Bill Rankles Business ...       October 29, 2009
News: Lobbyists say the new version remains the most onerous of the health reform bills introduced so far and contains a public option plan, more stringent employer mandates, changes to ERISA and business penalties that would go toward paying ...
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Study Recommends Integrating Workers' Compensation ...       October 29, 2009
News: Integrating workers' comp medical benefits and non-occupational medical treatment under a '24-hour care' system could help pay for a 'large fraction' of universal health care coverage, a study concludes.
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Experts at a Detroit Health Care Summit Say ...       October 16, 2009
News: Kelly Services CEO Carl Camden, speaking at a health care summit in suburban Detroit, pronounces employer-based heath care coverage 'doomed.'
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Health Care Reform Plan Likely Moving Into Full ...       October 5, 2009
News: Many of the issues that dominated the Finance Committee deliberations during the past two weeks are certain to come up on the Senate floor. These include whether a government-run plan should be established to compete with private insurers ...
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Senate Finance Committee Keeps Insurer Fee in ...       October 2, 2009
News: The Senate Finance Committee has rejected an amendment that would have removed a $6.7 billion annual fee on health insurers that is included in a health reform bill the panel is considering.
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Number of Uninsured Rose in 2008, Census Bureau ...       September 10, 2009
News: The number of people without health insurance in the US increased slightly last year as employment-based coverage continued its long, steady decline, the Bureau of the Census reported.
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Health Plan Taxes, Cap on FSAs Under Discussion ...       September 10, 2009
News: Commercial health insurance companies and administrators of self-funded health care plans would have to pay an excise tax of 35 percent on health care plans whose costs exceed a certain level under a draft health care reform proposal.
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Census Bureau to Release Updated Uninsured Numbers       September 4, 2009
News: The report is expected to attract a high level of interest as it coincides with the drive in Congress to pass sweeping health care reform legislation to move the nation closer to universal coverage.
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