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April 2005
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Time To Decipher Legislation's DNA Health plans have much at stake as Congress moves to lay down the do's and don'ts about use of info gathered via genetic testing.   |
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June 2003
Stephen Barlas |
To Your Health An old health insurance bill gets a second chance at life. |
The Motley Fool
November 9, 2009
Brian Orelli |
Health-Care Reform: A Tale of Two Chambers Halfway done, but the battle is just heating up. |
Investment Advisor
August 2009
Melanie Waddell |
Healthcare Reform Steamroller Advances House and Senate committees offer health reform bills. Both the House and Senate legislation would likely raise taxes for many. |
Managed Care
July 2001
Michael Levin-Epstein |
Tilt of Senate to Democrats Speeded Debate on Patients' Rights The Senate debate over the Patients' Bill of Rights made for great theater, but was the outcome ever in doubt? |
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... |
The Motley Fool
December 24, 2009
Brian Orelli |
Health-Care Reform: Two-Thirds Finished The U.S. Senate voted this morning to pass the health-care reform bill, moving us closer to capping off the long process that's weighed on health-care and insurance stocks this year. |
Managed Care
September 2007 |
Ninety Percent of Adults Eligible For Medicare Have Drug Coverage A study from the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research finds that 90 percent of Americans age 65 and older now have prescription drug coverage, compared to more than 75 percent who were covered in 2004. |
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... |
Inc.
June 1, 2003
Bobbie Gossage |
Snowe Job The Senate reconsiders a bill intended to increase loans from small business investment companies (SBICs) to small companies. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
December 12, 2006
John Dutemple |
What About My Health Insurance??! COBRAs? HIPAAs? It's a jungle out there. A job change is stressful enough without the worry of losing your health insurance. Here is a guide through the jungle of rules and options. |
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
November 2006 |
Employers Focus On Just Who Should Be Covered Here are two interesting recent moves by employers to manage health benefits. |
Entrepreneur
July 2005
Stephen Barlas |
Bill of Health? Combining entrepreneurs into Association Health Plans (AHPs) is one feature of legislation designed to cure your health insurance pains. |
Entrepreneur
September 2005
Jacquelyn Lynn |
Thinking Ahead As Americans age, long-term care insurance may prove one of the most important insurance products on the market, and this coverage can offer advantages to both employers and employee |
Inc.
June 2004
Bobbie Gossage |
Snowe Me the Money Senator Snowe (among others) restores funding to the Small Business Administration. |
Managed Care
May 2002 |
Small employers plan to shift increased costs to workers Small companies -- those with 3 to 24 employees -- are bracing for continuing health care cost increases, and indicate that they may have to shift more of that expense to workers |
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
September 2000 |
Any way you cut it, employers appear to save if Medicare adopts drug benefit A new analysis suggests that a prescription drug benefit in Medicare would reduce employer expense for health coverage--which, in turn, could encourage more employers to offer some form of drug coverage and thus reverse this erosion... |
Managed Care
November 2006
Frank Diamond |
Some Still Want To Know When There's Nothing to Be Done The use of genetic testing suggests that people will soon be able to know a lot - in some cases, an awful lot. |
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. |
Managed Care
June 2004 |
Headlines On Deadline ... About 50 of the largest U.S. employers plan to form a health insurance pool... Managed Medicare plans will receive at least a 6.6 percent increase in payment rates in 2005... The biotechnology industry... |
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. |
Entrepreneur
January 2006
Jacquelyn Lynn |
The DNA Dilemma Should genetic discrimination be part of your employment practices liability insurance coverage? |
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
July 2000 |
Changing physicians: Why they do it More than 1 in 8 people changed their personal physician or other primary provider of health care last year. For people enrolled in HMOs, quality of care -- not something related to coverage -- was the number one impetus for switching providers. |
Bio-IT World
February 2007
Kevin Davies |
Obama Declares for Personalized Medicine Barack Obama is one of few members of congress who sees the genomics tidal wave and is doing something about it. Obama may be a Democrat, but drug and biotech industries have reason to hope. |
Managed Care
May 2001
Michael D. Dalzell |
Powerful Opportunities For Good and Greed Genetic advances could spawn incredible improvements in health care. Given public demand, they also pose what may be unmanageable issues of resource use... |
Managed Care
May 2000 |
Prescription Drug Benefit Gaining In Election Year Considered a dead issue just weeks ago, a prescription drug benefit in Medicare is suddenly thought to be the health care issue with the best chance for passage this year.... |
The Motley Fool
November 20, 2009
Brian Orelli |
Who's Paying for Health-Care Reform? You are, of course. Ensuring coverage of 94% of eligible Americans will cost a trillion dollars over the next decade, give or take a few billion depending on which chamber the bill is coming out of. |
The Motley Fool
July 5, 2006
Dan Caplinger |
Get an Insurance Checkup: Part 2 Insurance is a tricky subject, rife with complexity and confusing language and concepts. If you remember that your main goal in buying insurance is to reduce your own risk, it's easier to evaluate exactly what risks you have and therefore what sort of insurance you really need. |
The Motley Fool
August 29, 2007
Dan Caplinger |
Play It Safe With Your Health Census Bureau figures indicate 47 million Americans do not have health insurance. High deductible insurance is one solution that may help these individuals to avoid a potential financial disaster. |
Managed Care
September 2002 |
Aetna Chief Wants Coverage For Genetic Tests The CEO of the country's largest for-profit HMO has jumped with both feet into the national discussion about genetic testing's place in health care. |
PC Magazine
November 30, 2005
Sebastian Rupley |
Switching to Digital TV The national transition to digital television may be upon us. |
AskMen.com
May 14, 2013
Brad Miles |
Angelina Jolie's Double Mastectomy Angelina Jolie's op-ed that appears in today's New York Times about her decision to undergo a preventive double mastectomy could lead men to question whether they would do the same for preventing testicular cancer. |
American Family Physician
October 1, 2000 |
Genetic Testing for Breast Cancer Risk: What Does It Mean to Me? What causes breast cancer?... What genes can cause breast cancer to be inherited?... What clues in my family history might show I've inherited a risk of breast cancer?... Does everyone who has family members with breast cancer have these mutated genes?... What should I do?... |
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. |
Registered Rep.
December 30, 2009
Christina Mucciolo |
Independent Contractor Status On Senate's Agenda in 2010 The Financial Services Institute plans on lobbying against recently re-introduced legislation in the Senate that threatens financial advisors' "independent contractor" worker classification. |
Real Estate Portfolio
Nov/Dec 2003
Matthew Bechard |
Sen. Edward Kennedy on Partisanship, Preserving Pensions and the Value of REITs As the senior Democrat on the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee in the Senate, Kennedy is actively involved in shaping policy affecting education, health care and pension plans -- an issue of particular importance to the REIT industry. An interview. |
InternetNews
June 22, 2006
Roy Mark |
Senate Panel Delays Net Neutrality Vote Harried by time restraints, contentious Democrats and dozens of proposed amendments, the Senate Commerce Committee took a pass Thursday afternoon on network neutrality. |
Managed Care
July 2007 |
ERISA Proposes Using TPAs A coalition of the country's largest employers said health care coverage and retirement plans for American workers should be delivered by third-party administrators such as banks, investment companies, and insurers. |
Inc.
February 1, 2003
Eamon Javers |
Storming the Hill Now that the Republicans are in command, the small-business lobby hopes this new congressional session will bring it more victories than losses. Here's the view from the field. |
Entrepreneur
January 2005
Stephen Barlas |
Take a Peek If you want to look ahead at the small-business agenda as the new session of Congress gets underway, it helps to look back. |
BusinessWeek
October 22, 2009 |
Two Ways to Fund Reform Separate House and Senate health-care bills cover costs differently. |
Entrepreneur
June 2005
Stephen Barlas |
State of the Estate Small-business advocates are making renewed attempts to permanently repeal the estate tax, which is being phased out between now and 2010, only to reappear in 2011. |
Registered Rep.
May 20, 2010
Kristen French |
Senate Nears Vote On Financial Reform, Fiduciary Standard On Hold The Senate voted 60-40 Thursday to end weeks of debate on Christopher Dodd's financial regulatory reform legislation, in what is called a cloture vote. That clears the way for a final vote on the bill within 30 hours. |
Investment Advisor
June 2009
Marlene Y. Satter |
What's In A Name There are several different classifications of insurance advisors should be aware of. |
InternetNews
October 31, 2007
Sean Gallagher |
Senate Panel Blesses Community Broadband A Senate panel has approved legislation banning states' efforts to prevent local governments from providing community broadband access. |
Entrepreneur
July 2006
Chris Pentttila |
Running for Cover Should you eliminate health coverage entirely or limit it to a few key employees? |
