Pennsylvania Health Insurance:
Affordable health insurance in Pennsylvania. News on family, individual, group and small business Pennsylvania health insurance plans. Research on coverage and updates on health insurance in Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh .
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Jul 20th, 2009
The Allegheny County Health Department has added a special section on behavioral health services to its directory of health resources for the uninsured and underinsured.
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Dec 22nd, 2008
Pennsylvania Governor signed into law a bill that will prohibit health care facilities from requiring mandatory overtime of staff.
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Dec 4th, 2008
Insurer Conseco has transferred many of its long-term care policies to Senior Health Insurance of Pennsylvania, a new state-supervised, not-for-profit trust, a move that will affect more than 140,000 Conseco beneficiaries.
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Nov 21st, 2008
Pennsylvania Governor announced that he has extended through June 30, 2009, an executive order that allows the Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council to continue operating.
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Nov 12th, 2008
A recent Wall Street Journal opinion piece that claimed Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell's (D) "Cover All Pennsylvanians" plan would increase health care costs and drive physicians out of the state is flat out wrong.
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Oct 28th, 2008
Cover All Pennsylvanians plan will increase the cost of practicing medicine, make health care more expensive and drive doctors out of the state.
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Oct 16th, 2008
Pennsylvania's two-year legislative session is ending without a compromise on overhauling the state's health care system, as sought by Gov. Ed Rendell, but the state is "far from alone" in its failure to expand coverage to the uninsured.
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Oct 8th, 2008
Pennsylvania Governor in a letter sent to state Senate Majority Leader Dominic Pileggi urged action on compromise legislation to expand health insurance coverage to the uninsured.
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Oct 3rd, 2008
Pennsylvania Governor described two alternative funding mechanisms for a scaled-down version of his proposal to expand health coverage to more uninsured state residents.
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Sep 19th, 2008
Physicians in Pennsylvania are concerned that the state's Medical Care Availability and Reduction of Error fund, which provides doctors with subsidies for malpractice insurance, could expire this year as lawmakers debate changes to the state's health care system.