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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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Pennsylvania Governor signed into law a bill that will prohibit health care facilities from requiring mandatory overtime of staff.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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Pennsylvania health care providers and consumers would benefit more if insurers Independence Blue Cross and Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield remained competitors rather than collaborators.
