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Opinion: California’s Single-Payer Health Insurance Dream Remains a Fantasy
25 Apr 2024 17:40 GMT
Alvarado Hospital. Photo by Chris Stone
The state Assembly’s Health Committee advanced Assembly Bill 2200 this week. The bill would ban private health insurance and force all state residents into “CalCare,” a government-run health plan. Nine Democrats …
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What is moratorium period in health insurance?
25 Apr 2024 13:58 GMT
… a claim.
For health insurance claims in personal policies, insurers … these disclosures with any commentary made by the treating … justify their decision. In health insurance, the free-look … condition. For example, health insurance policies generally have a …
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Health insurance increases, layoffs on the table as Spotsylvania School Board looks to close $38 million budget gap
25 Apr 2024 11:44 GMT
… potential increases to some employee health insurance premiums. That increase could wipe … on the possible changes to health insurance options. Those employees will be … meeting during a brief public comment session.
The School Board meeting …
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Medicaid expansion debate stirs memories of family medical debt for Mississippi senator
25 Apr 2024 17:33 GMT
… constant supporter of Medicaid expansion, or Medicaid reform as he … McMahan has compassion for uninsured people he doesn’t … who are not covered by health insurance.”
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Dan Rodricks: If Congress is ‘completely broken,’ Larry Hogan should own up to who broke it | STAFF COMMENTARY
25 Apr 2024 18:40 GMT
… have a breathtakingly low opinion of Congress.
But Hogan … voting to provide access to health insurance for millions of Americans. … percentage of Americans without health insurance fell from 15.5% … red states refusing the Medicaid expansion provision of the …
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Insurance providers petition possible changes to the state Medicaid plans
25 Apr 2024 17:25 GMT
… to find a new health insurance plan if Texas Health … providers from its Medicaid and children’s health insurance contracts.
Karen Love … ’s Health Plan for health coverage. Texas Children’s Health … Love.
HHS can’t comment on the procurements until contracts …
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COMMENTARY: Retired Cape Breton doctor stresses importance of patient confidentially
25 Apr 2024 17:34 GMT
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An open letter to Dr. Colin Audain, president of Doctors Nova Scotia:
I've been retired since 2018 after practicing for 52 years and I'm old enough to remember when the government said that when they …
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Commentary: Recalling a decades-old campaign to gain fertility rights in our state
25 Apr 2024 13:10 GMT
The recent Alabama Supreme Court decision that ruled frozen embryos to be children is shocking. The decision has shut down or jeopardized in-vitro fertilization (IVF) treatments for Alabama women and brought back vivid memories of the fight for IVF …
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Opinion | Does India Need an Inheritance Tax? Analysing Pros and Cons
25 Apr 2024 11:55 GMT
Inheritance tax, also known as estate tax, is a tax levied on the total value of money and property of a deceased person before it is distributed to their legal heirs. In India currently, there is no inheritance tax. Often, inherited properties generate …
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What happened to the compassionate and community-backed safety net that saved Babe Ruth? | GUEST COMMENTARY
25 Apr 2024 10:25 GMT
When Babe Ruth was a child, he stole beer from his father’s saloon, joined fistfights in the schoolyard and wandered the streets. Regularly disciplined by his teachers in the classroom, he was what you might call “trouble.” All of this by the age of 6.
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