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August 31, 2007
Town workers may get state health insurance
Municipal workers may be joining the state's health insurance group within the next two years. The town will not take part in the statewide health insurance coalition this year, but a study committee headed by Assistant Town Administrator Jim Johnson will look at possibly joining next
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Retirees picket EMBARQ because the company plans to discontinue paying for their health insurance
BRISTOL, Tenn. Glenn Ward said he spends $3,000 a month buying the prescription drugs needed to treat his wife s Parkinson s disease. He and other EMBARQ retirees learned last month they will lose their company-paid health insurance on Jan.
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Posted by Ryan at 03:53 PM
Health insurance for poor coming
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Thursday that his government was working on a scheme to provide health insurance to the poor, besides offering life and disability cover to one earning member of each economically weaker
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Posted by Mel at 11:42 AM
August 30, 2007
Centre working on health insurance for the poor: Manmohan Singh
New Delhi, Aug 30 (ANI): Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said here today that the Central Government is working on a health insurance model for the poor, so that they do not have to bear the high cost of medical care. After giving away the National Awards for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, Singh said as a first step towards extending social security to workers in the micro and small
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Posted by Rob at 04:28 PM
Portable Health Insurance Faces Challenges
Holding on to health insurance can be a big challenge if you have a chronic disease or history of illness. But it wasn't supposed to be that way. Eleven years ago this month, Congress passed a law intended to free people who felt trapped in their jobs because they were afraid of losing their health
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Federal Judge Orders Wal-Mart to Offer Health Insurance to Workers' Stepchildren
The stepchildren of working parents in New York state are dependent children for the purposes of qualifying for coverage under federally regulated group health insurance plans, a federal judge ruled in a suit against Wal-Mart. The judge said that Wal-Mart's plan, which requires that non-custodial stepchildren live with Wal-Mart employees at least nine months out of the year and that they be
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More Americans Lack Health Insurance
The number of Americans without health insurance grew to an all time high of 47 million last year, an increase of more than 2 million from a year before. The number of children without health insurance coverage also rose. The Census Bureau figures are likely to raise the stakes in the political debate about health
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Posted by Richard at 08:25 AM
August 29, 2007
One-fifth of Californians lack health insurance, report says
13:03 PDT Sacramento - A record number of Californians - an estimated 6.7 million adults and children that account for nearly one in five of the state's residents - went without health care insurance last year, according to new figures released today by the...
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