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Managed Care May 2002 John Carroll	Efforts To Kill Coverage Mandates Run Up Against Powerful Forces State coverage mandates were a popular feature on legislative agendas throughout the '90s. But when the economy soured last year and premiums shot up at a double-digit pace, a few legislators began launching bills in the hopes of rolling back mandates. Not so fast
Managed Care April 2002 John Carroll	Universal Care Making Rounds In State Houses and on Ballots This time, activists say their best chance to move universal care forward is with state legislatures, and they've begun pressing to make universal care a leading issue for candidates to address...
Managed Care October 2003 John Carroll	Shining Light Or Shipwreck? Maine's health care reformers are on course to deliver a controversial universal care plan. But is the coast clear?
Managed Care June 2005 John Carroll	New Legislative Efforts Put Onus on Employers States are considering laws that require businesses to provide coverage for their employees. Wal-Mart is the biggest target.
CFO June 1, 2009 Alix Stuart	Prescription for Progress? The enormous changes being contemplated for health care, and the staggering costs associated with them, which could draw heavily upon corporate coffers, ensure that even if the road to reform is fast, it will not be smooth.
Managed Care July 2005 MargaretAnn Cross	Efforts To Cover the Uninsured An Opportunity for Health Plans Employers and state governments are getting together to design imaginative insurance programs to cover low-pay workers.
Managed Care December 2001	Tie to Employers Stresses Fragility Of Health Coverage About two thirds of Americans receive health insurance through their employers or families, and many gain or lose coverage when they marry, divorce, or move to new jobs...
Managed Care March 2006 John Carroll	States Feel Less Inclined To Issue Coverage Mandates Many factors converge to steer legislatures away from being too intrusive with state insurance mandates.
Entrepreneur June 2007 J. Louise Larson	Call a Doctor! Double-digit hikes in the cost of health care every year have business and government leaders looking for a silver bullet - and entrepreneurs saying that it's about time.
Managed Care December 2003	Pay-or-Play Ideas Make Employers Help Uninsured Employers would have to "pay or play" in some proposals for how to boost coverage for the uninsured.
The Motley Fool September 18, 2007 Dan Caplinger	Health Insurance ... or Else Health insurance can protect you from huge medical bills. Yet for a variety of reasons, many people go without health insurance. Now, government leaders are taking a new approach toward making sure everyone gets the medical care they need.
Managed Care February 2008	Employer-Backed Insurance Gets Nonpartisan Nod The majority of Americans believe that universal coverage costs should be shared by individuals, employers, and the government.
Managed Care January 2007 John Carroll	Erosion of Employer-Sponsored Health Care: Bad for Everyone More companies are offering less coverage - or none at all. Even those that offer coverage find that more of their workers choose not to sign up.
Managed Care February 2008 John Carroll	Move to Mandatory Coverage Wouldn't Ensure Universality Compared to the existing state of affairs, there's a lot to like in mandatory coverage, but the Massachusetts experiment is a lesson to not expect miracles.
Managed Care July 2000 Bob Carlson	What Legislature? Health Care Issues Increasingly Going Straight to Voters Residents of Massachusetts and Washington State may have a chance to opt for universal health care, in the form of physician-led ballot initiatives, this November.
Managed Care January 2001	Private Proposals Aim To Reduce Lack of Coverage Two new proposals to solve the conundrum of Americans without health coverage would build on the country's existing health system...
Managed Care April 2007	Comparing Congressional Health Care Proposals A review of health care reform bills proposed by Congress shows that many of them would cover more uninsured Americans than the current administration proposal.
BusinessWeek October 15, 2007 Glen Whitman	Bad Medicine For Health Care Politicians have tried to solve America's health-care woes by enacting an individual mandate - a law requiring every adult to purchase health insurance. Despite its bipartisan support, the individual mandate is bad policy, a vain attempt to command a better result while doing nothing to achieve it.
BusinessWeek April 16, 2007 Catherine Arnst	Health Care For All? Not Quite Maine's two-year-old universal health care system Dirigo is providing other states with a blueprint and useful lessons.
Managed Care November 2001 Michael D. Dalzell	The Uninsured: How Health Plans Can Do Well By Doing Good While health plans battle for market share, 38 million Americans are uninsured. At least some could be signed up, but pursuing them is not without risk...
Financial Planning April 1, 2007 Elizabeth O'Brien	Are Your Clients Covered? Today's healthcare system demands vigilance from consumers and planners alike. Some financial planners are taking on the complex, expensive market for individual health insurance. And they're finding solutions.
Managed Care December 2002 John Carroll	Don't Read Too Much Into Oregon Single-Payer Vote Don't write an epitaph for single-payer systems -- or other bold reform efforts -- yet.
Managed Care November 2001	For Now, at Least, Fewer People Lack Insurance The Census Bureau says the number of uninsured Americans dropped in 2000, for the second year in a row -- a trend many experts doubt will continue, thanks to a weakening economy...
Reason November 2004 Ronald Bailey	Mandatory Health Insurance Now! It will save private medicine in the U.S. -- and spur medical innovation.
Managed Care September 2003 Michael Chiusano	Too Early To Write Obituary For Patients' Bill of Rights Back from obscurity, the Patients' Bill of Rights is poised to become an issue in the presidential election -- depending on whom you ask.
Managed Care August 2006 Frank Diamond	Return to Jackson Hole? The Push for a Standard Benefit A nationwide discussion about making health care available to all Americans gives new life to an old idea.
Managed Care November 2000	Rise in employer-based coverage spurs drop in ranks of uninsured The Census Bureau reports that the number of Americans without health insurance dropped from 44 million in 1998 to 42 million in 1999, thanks in large part to a boost in the share of employers offering job-based coverage...
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Managed Care May 2001 Cyril F. Chang	Covering Risk But Not Risky Behaviors A critical review of the arguments for insurance coverage for smoking-cessation therapies...
Managed Care February 2007 John Carroll	Push To Reform System Makes Strange Bedfellows Nearly everybody's calling on the government to make health care coverage affordable and universal.
Managed Care October 2002	Survey: '90s Boom Didn't Increase Number of Covered Employees You would think that the roaring economy and tight labor market in the 1990s would have meant a significant increase in the number of people with employer-sponsored health insurance. But you would be wrong, according to a report by the Center for Studying Health System Change.
BusinessWeek July 30, 2009 Amy S. Choi	Why Small Biz Is Skittish About Health-Care Reform Despite a charm offensive by Obama, health-care proposals leave entrepreneurs wary
Managed Care September 2005 Martin Sipkoff	The Private Sector Can, Should, and Will Help Solve the Problem of the Uninsured WellPoint Chairman Leonard Schaeffer and other health plan leaders believe they can help with the chronic societal issue of uninsured Americans.
BusinessWeek November 18, 2010 Drew Armstrong	Guess Who Opposes Reversing the Individual Mandate in Health Reform? As Republicans take aim at the individual mandate in the health reform law, health-care industry groups are lobbying to preserve it.
Knowledge@Wharton	Major Health Care Reform Under President Bush Remains Elusive Three of the chief health-care challenges facing the United States are: finding a way to provide coverage for the millions of uninsured, reforming Medicare, and setting up a prescription-drug plan for the elderly. The White House is likely to make headway on only the third of these in the next two years.
Managed Care October 2000	Employer-based coverage up in strong economy Health insurance premiums rose 8.3 percent over the past year for all types of coverage, according to an annual survey of employers...
Managed Care July 2005 John Carroll	For More and More Workers, Small Pay Means Small Plans Some large health insurers are starting to offer limited-benefit plans for an unexpectedly vibrant niche - the working poor.
The Motley Fool October 13, 2009 Brian Orelli	Health-Care Reform: You Can't Have It Both Ways Requiring insurers to cover pre-existing conditions needs to go hand-in-hand with requiring healthy people to purchase insurance.
BusinessWeek October 13, 2009 Catherine Arnst	Health-Care Reform: The Mandate Debate Experts say the only way to cover the uninsured is to require them to buy insurance or pay a fine. But how much should a penalty be?
Managed Care February 2002	Small Employers Want To Sidestep Giving Benefits The recession and higher medical costs are causing small employers to take a hard look at their sponsorship of health benefits...
Financial Planning July 1, 2010 Jeanne Lee	The Sky Is Not Falling Small business clients have been hard-hit by increased healthcare expenditures over the past 10 years, so it's not surprising that the healthcare reform bill has many of them anxious and confused.
Job Journal July 25, 2004 Michael Kinsman	Career Pros: Too Few Workers Insured When a problem affects nearly 44 million Americans, it becomes everyone's problem. Industry leaders hope to fund expanded coverage.
BusinessWeek September 27, 2004 Weber et al.	Health Insurance: Small Biz Is In A Bind Disproportionately hit by cost hikes, more small businesses have stop offering health care coverage to their workers.
Salon.com January 21, 2000 Dena Bunis	Making health an issue Clinton continues to push for reforms.
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Managed Care May 2003 John Carroll	Is 1 the Answer?: More Calling for Single-Payer System Most would not want health care to go through such a major change unless it became a question of survival. Many say that's just where we are.
The Motley Fool April 26, 2007 Dan Caplinger	Don't Quit Your Health Insurance Quitting a job can elevate you to new heights in your career. To keep from paying the price, however, you need to make sure you bring your health insurance with you.