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Thursday, July 29, 2010

Health Insurance Guideline Leaves Kids Out

Answers About Medicare: Part 4By THE NEW YORK TIMES Courtesy of the Medicare Rights Center Joe Baker, president of the Medicare Rights Center, is taking reader questions on Medicare....
New York Times (blog) ( 7/29/2010 8:36:24 AM -08:00 )

Children-Only Health Plan Rules Boost Insurers' Abilities to Control Cost
Insurers led by UnitedHealth Group Inc. and WellPoint Inc. can limit when parents buy child-only policies under...
Bloomberg ( 7/29/2010 2:17:59 AM -08:00 )

Health Insurance Guideline Leaves Kids Out
A new federal guideline that lets health insurers deny new coverage to children except those who sign up during “open enrollment” has drawn...
Youth Today ( 7/29/2010 1:41:26 PM -08:00 )

HHS offers $51M for state health insurance exchanges
The Health & Human Services Department released $51 million in grants for states–up to $1 million per state–to help them begin to develop...
Government Health IT ( 7/29/2010 12:20:49 PM -08:00 )

HHS to give states $1M each for health insurance exchanges
States can now apply for $51 million in federal money to help build health insurance exchanges, the Health and Human Services Department...
FCW.com (blog) ( 7/29/2010 12:11:27 PM -08:00 )

Health Insurance Coverage Could Get Personal
Health Insurance Coverage Could Get PersonalPosted by trump44 on Jul 29th, 2010 and filed under Health. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or...
Worlds Breaking News ( 7/29/2010 11:41:03 AM -08:00 )

Obama administration touts record number of insured children
Record numbers of children have health insurance in the United States today, administration officials told a Senate...
The Hill (blog) ( 7/29/2010 10:52:39 AM -08:00 )

HHS launches consumer Web site on health reform
The US Department of Health and Human Services has launched a new Web site, www.healthcare.gov, to help consumers understand the new health reform law,...
AAP News (subscription) ( 7/29/2010 9:54:04 AM -08:00 )

Child advocates slam HHS open-enrollment guideline
Children's welfare advocates are pushing back this week against new rules that will restrict child enrollment in...
The Hill (blog) ( 7/29/2010 9:32:14 AM -08:00 )

U.S. Invests $51 Million To Build Competitive Health Insurance Marketplace
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today announced two key steps in the process of partnering with states and other stakeholders to begin...
Gov Monitor ( 7/29/2010 7:59:52 AM -08:00 )

HHS Clarifies Rules for Children's Health Care Insurance Policies
On Wednesday, HHS issued a clarification of a provision under the new health reform law that requires health insurance companies to offer coverage plans to...
California Healthline ( 7/29/2010 7:42:09 AM -08:00 )

Insurers Change Kids Coverage Stance After HHS Clarifies New Rules
Health insurers have started to back down "on their decision to pull out of the child-only coverage market after the Obama administration addressed their...
Kaiser Health News ( 7/29/2010 6:13:56 AM -08:00 )

Affordable Health Insurance Plans Available For Small Businesses–Can Companies
Many businesses that offer a health insurance plan for their workers extend some form of health care coverage for families as well....
Red, White, and Blue Press (blog) ( 7/29/2010 5:49:42 AM -08:00 )

Kentucky Health Insurance for Individuals and Families
Offering clients the necessary resources to choose the individual or group health insurance plan best suited for their needs....
PR-USA.net (press release) ( 7/29/2010 2:26:24 AM -08:00 )

Insurers back down on child-coverage stance
Health insurance plans across the country on Wednesday began to backtrack on their decision to pull out of the...
The Hill ( 7/29/2010 2:18:37 AM -08:00 )

Finding the best health insurance plan
Most Americans opt to sign up for health insurance if they can since employer-sponsored plans are often the least expensive...
Bankrate.com ( 7/29/2010 2:18:13 AM -08:00 )

Grossi Says Healthcare Reforms Will Continue
Grossi Says Healthcare Reforms Will ContinueThe Regional Director of the US Department of Health & Human Services, Joanne Corte Grossi, revealed on Wednesday that presently 46 million people in...
TopNews United Kingdom (blog) ( 7/29/2010 2:10:14 AM -08:00 )

Fly in the ointment
Opponents of the massive new national health care overhaul bill have long warned it will result in a slew of unintended consequences....
Frederick News Post (subscription) ( 7/28/2010 10:03:07 PM -08:00 )

Health reform is here to stay, government official declares
SOMERSET — Health-care reform is not going anywhere, a regional director of the US Department of Health and Human Services told a lunchtime business meeting...
The Tribune-Democrat ( 7/28/2010 7:39:01 PM -08:00 )

Test ‥1 for college students: Picking an insurer
NEW YORK - It's the first real-life test for students heading off to college: picking the right health insurance plan. The confusion starts before students...
CNBC ( 7/28/2010 8:40:28 AM -08:00 )