Utah Health Insurance:
Health insurance news from Utah. How the government and insurance providers try to make health insurance affordable in Utah. News about individual, family and group health insurance from Utah.
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Aug 10th, 2009
Along with back to school shopping, Utahns will be able to shop for health insurance online beginning August 19, 2009. The Utah Health Exchange is a website where Utah residents and business owners can shop, compare, and buy health insurance plans.
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Mar 26th, 2009
The Utah Department of Health is hosting a Family Enrollment Fair to encourage eligible, uninsured families to apply for coverage. The event is part of Cover the Uninsured Week, a national effort to get more Americans covered by health insurance.
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Mar 10th, 2009
The unemployed and uninsured residents of Utah will now have an alternative to COBRA health insurance and that is called NetCare. It will go live if the state House does the final approval.
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Nov 4th, 2008
Insurance companies in Utah announced a new product prototype, NetCare, that is designed to provide coverage to state residents between jobs and costs less than COBRA coverage.
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Oct 29th, 2008
UDOH spent several weeks interviewing the Utah racial and Ethnic minority population groups about their attitudes on health insurance.
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Aug 1st, 2008
Utah advocates for children and low-income residents on Tuesday said that a federal waiver sought by the state that would allow more low-income families into the state's premium subsidy plan will, in effect, push out children now covered by SCHIP.
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Jul 9th, 2008
As part of health system reform, the 2008 Legislature has made it easier for Utah’s uninsured to enroll in their work-sponsored health plan.
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Mar 25th, 2008
New estimates show slight drops in both the number and percentage of Utahns who were uninsured during 2007.