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Aug 20th, 2009
On Wednesday, President Obama held a conference call with some 1000 religious leaders and some 140,000 listeners to discuss health insurance reform. The call was one of two phone-based events this week, after a series of high-profile town-hall meetings by the president. The other will be held Thursday, billed as a "live strategy meeting" in which Obama will update political supporters about his reform efforts.
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Aug 20th, 2009
About 9 million Americans have dual health insurance from the federal government, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation, and for many of them, it still is not enough to meet their healthcare needs. These individuals are known as dual eligibles, because they qualify for both Medicare and Medicaid.
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Aug 19th, 2009
Several dozen health insurance companies across the nation received letters today from Democrats asking them to divulge financial information. The letters were sent by House Energy and Commerce panel Chairman Henry Waxman (D-CA) and Rep. Bart Stupak (D-MI) chairman of the panel’s subcommittee on oversight and investigations.
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Aug 19th, 2009
When President Obama addressed the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Phoenix, Arizona, he emphasized that health insurance coverage for service personnel was not in jeopardy. “No one is going to take away your benefits,” he said. Yet his reassurances have not completely quelled the worries of veterans that their health insurance coverage may change.
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Aug 17th, 2009
A computer game called CHAT - Choosing Health Plans All Together - will help people in North Dakota suggest a basic health insurance plan. North Dakota’s Insurance Department is hosting the program.
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Aug 17th, 2009
President Obama wavered on his former stance on the public health insurance option on Saturday in Colorado when he said in a town hall meeting “that the public option, whether we have it or we don’t have it, is not the entirety of health care reform. This is just one sliver of it.”
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Aug 16th, 2009
President Obama, speaking about health insurance reform during a town hall meeting at Central High School in Grand Junction, Colo. on Saturday, seems to have his goals set at keeping health insurance companies honest. Targeting honesty among health insurance companies has drawn cheers from listeners at Town Hall meetings.
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Aug 15th, 2009
Of all the options on the table regarding health care reform, one we have not heard much about is health insurance cooperatives. Back in June, Sen. Kent Conrad (D-ND) raised the proposal of a nonprofit health insurance cooperative to replace a public health care plan.
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Aug 14th, 2009
Less than two months after pitchman Billy Mays was found dead in his home, the health insurance ads he had done for iCAN Benefit group have been pulled off the air. Although Mays’ family gave permission for the ads to continue, the company decided to stop them.
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Aug 14th, 2009
Affordable health insurance is becoming more distant. Blue Cross Blue Shield is hiking rates for their most popular health insurance plan, Medigap. Rates starting in October are going up 4.7 percent, and the impact will be felt by our senior citizens. Blue Cross currently insures 210,000 seniors in Michigan.
