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The Cost to Launch the California Health Insurance Exchange is $910 million––Does That Sound Like a Lot to You?
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3:00 PM
So far California has received $910 million in federal grants to launch its new health insurance exchange under the Affordable Care Act (...
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Insurance Exchanges
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Obama Health Plan
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Obamacare
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Private Insurance Exchanges
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State Health Care Reform
Conservative States: Do a Partnership Exchange? Expand Medicaid?
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10:28 AM
Should states build their own health insurance exchanges under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) ("Obamacare")? Should states expand t...
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Insurance Exchanges
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Medicaid
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Medicaid Block Grants
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Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
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State Health Care Reform
Will Many of the Smallest Employers Circumvent the Affordable Care Act by Using Self-Insurance?
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2:20 PM
Not surprisingly, only about 10% of firms with fewer than 200 workers take advantage of self-insurance––and almost no very small groups (few...
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Health Insurance Reform
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Insurance Exchanges
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Insurance Underwriting Reform
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MLR Regulations
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State Health Care Reform
The Republicans Had Better Get Organized on Health Care
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6:42 PM
If the past week is any indication, the Republicans will have real trouble come 2012 trying to convince voters they have a plan to fix the A...
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Defined Contribution Health Care
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Health Care Reform
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Republican Health Care Plan
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State Health Care Reform
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Wyden-Brown
State High Risk Pools For the Uninsured--Who Would Want To Be In Them?
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12:16 PM
What do we do with people who are uninsurable because they have a pre-existing medical condition?That is a particularly important question a...
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McCain Health Plan
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Obama Health Plan
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State Health Care Reform
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State-Based Risk Pools
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Not only may you not get to keep your plan under Obamacare, you might not be able to keep your doctor; there are reasons
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News Part of the sales pitch for the federal health-care reform law was that people could keep their do...
Dried mussels: A little plate with 160 g of protein (plus some comments on high-protein low-carbohydrate dieting)
Many hunter-gatherer groups employed various methods of drying to preserve meats. Drying also increases significantly the protein content ...
Trying to Make Sense of the Covered California Numbers
I've read a number of reports in recent days gushing over the progress Covered California is making leading the nation in signing up peo...
Beshear to study nursing-home staffing minimums, suggests homes' high liability costs are related to poorly ranked care
Responding to a letter from Kentuckians for Nursing Home Reform , which cited a low ranking for the state's nursing homes, Gov. Steve B...
Small Group Health Insurance "Cancellations"––The Next Shoe to Drop But a More Complicated One
Obamacare is impacting the small group insurance market in many of the same ways as the individual health insurance market. While employers ...
"If You Like Your Doctor You Will Be Able to Keep Your Doctor. Period"
I think you can guess who said that. Actually, here is what the President said at the American Medical Association Meeting in July, 2009––an...
Can a Statin Neutralize the Cardiovascular Risk of Unhealthy Dietary Choices?
The title of this post is the exact title of a recent editorial in the American Journal of Cardiology ( 1 ). Investigators calculated the ...
Beshear and two other Democratic governors say Obamacare is working in their states, and cite examples
Gov. Steve Beshear continues to be a major national cheerleader for the federal health-reform law, citing Kentucky examples in an op-ed piec...
Almost 1/4 of Ky. inmates have mental-health issue; lockups are becoming the 'new asylums,' Wall Street Journal says
Almost a fourth of the inmates in Kentucky's prisons and jails have a mental-health issue, and it's part of a growing national probl...
Humana allows policyholders to keep old plans without paying more; Anthem is still deciding
Humana , one of the three insurance companies offering individual health policies on the state's insurance exchange, will allow Kentuck...