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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 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 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.
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.
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
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 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.
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.
Investment Advisor April 2010 Marlene Y. Satter	Insurance Update: Implementing Healthcare NAIC is closely watching the reform debate to see how it will affect insurers and insured.
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.
The Motley Fool January 28, 2010 Brian Orelli	Health-Care Reform Is Dead. Probably. Breaking up the bill doesn't seem like the answer. What do insurers and pharmaceutical companies have to say?
The Motley Fool February 9, 2010 Brian Orelli	What Bipartisan Health-Care Reform Means for Investors Republicans and Democrats will debate on TV, but little may come of it.
The Motley Fool July 31, 2009 Brian Orelli	A Health-Care Investor's Nightmare When it comes to health-care reform, no news is not good news; the House's recent plan to delay voting on a health-care reform bill until September should have investors reaching for the antacids.
BusinessWeek March 25, 2010 Charlie Rose	Aetna's Ron Williams on Health Care: What to Expect What does this new mandate mean for individuals, companies, and the health-care industry?
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Managed Care December 2003 John Carroll	Aloha State Never Expected Such a Long Goodbye to Uninsured Three decades after Hawaii was supposed to have put a controversial end to a chronic problem by making employers cover more people, guess what persists?
D-Lib February 2007 Arthur Sale	The Patchwork Mandate Policies for Repository Managers: Self-archiving needs to be made part of the routine academic duty, and this requires a policy endorsement of mandatory deposit by someone.
BusinessWeek October 22, 2009 Sasseen & Arnst	Who Picks Up the Tab for Health Reform Insurers and taxpayers are likely to pay big chunks of the $900 billion bill to overhaul the nation's health-care system. Doctors will feel the least pain.
Salon.com January 21, 2000 Dena Bunis	Making health an issue Clinton continues to push for reforms.
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.
The Motley Fool February 25, 2010 Brian Orelli	Weekly Walk of Shame: Partisan Posturing on Health-Care Reform Our portfolios may not like it, but our pocketbooks need health-care reform.
Reason March 2009 Ronald Bailey	Pay Up A new study, by economists at Brigham Young University, the Brookings Institution, and the National Bureau of Economic Research, found that community rating raises premiums by 10 percent to 17 percent for individual policies and by 21 percent to 33 percent for family policies.
CFO December 1, 2009 Kate O'Sullivan	All Eyes on Reform Public support for health-care reform is high, but some CFOs take a different view.
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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.
The Motley Fool August 3, 2010 Charles E. Phelps	The Balancing Act: Health Care and the Economy A proposal to lower health-care costs and boost the economy.
Insurance & Technology November 12, 2007 Katherine Burger	2008 Presidential Election Promises Change for Health Insurance Industry Regardless of whom the parties nominate or who actually wins, the 2008 presidential elections are likely to have the most immediate impact on the health insurance industry.
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...
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The Motley Fool September 21, 2009 Brian Orelli	The Biggest Market Opportunity: Health-Care Stalemate? If it happens, here's how to play it.
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Reason November 2004 Ronald Bailey	Mandatory Health Insurance Now! It will save private medicine in the U.S. -- and spur medical innovation.
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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...
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