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Keiki Care health insurance to end - Honolulu Advertiser

The Keiki Care Plan, a state program once hailed as a step toward providing health insurance for all residents, is falling victim to a poor economy and cost cuts and will lapse at year's end. The state started the program this year to provide ...

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Sustainability and equity - Malta Independent Daily

I refer to your report of the parliamentary debate on the Estimates of Social Policy Ministry (TMID, 15 November). Appreciating the long list of speakers and shortage of space I noted that my contribution regarding the health sector was omitted. As ...

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Barre Mayor Lauzon says insurance 'crisis' threatens city - Times-Argus

BARRE – Mayor Thomas Lauzon says "all bets are off" and "everything's on the table" as city officials scramble to avert a hyper-local health insurance crisis. Faced with a staggering 34 percent increase in health care premiums recently quoted by ...

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Added Medicaid cuts raise concerns UMC loss might hit $20 million - Las Vegas Review Journal

The medical services lost at University Medical Center in order to offset an $8 million Medicaid shortfall might seem relatively modest come January when Nevada Medicaid will cut what it reimburses hospitals for inpatient services by 14 percent. That ...

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2nd UPDATE: Sen Baucus Unveils Universal Health Insur Plan - Beurs.nl

WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- U.S. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus urged quick action on his plan to provide health insurance for all Americans through a new pooling arrangement intended to reduce health-care costs and expand access to ...

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Obama’s health plan to cost $75 billion - Saudi Gazette

President-elect Barack Obama’s plans to overhaul the U.S. healthcare system would cost the federal government $75 billion the first year but would provide health insurance for 95 percent of Americans, consulting firm Price Waterhouse Coopers said ...

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General insurance premia to rise’ - Hindustan Times

Sandeep Bakhshi, MD and CEO of ICICI Lombard General Insurance, the country’s largest private sector non-life insurance company, tells Falaknaaz Syed that premium rates for motor, fire and group health would rise in 2009-10. What is the future of ...

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