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Health Plan Introduces New Individual Products

PITTSBURGH, Feb. 2, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- UPMC Health Plan is introducing eight new affordable health care coverage plans for individuals that provide 100 percent coverage on preventive care, health savings ...

Small businesses and affordable health care plans: Yes they can coexist

Advocacy group looking to lower health insurance costs in 2012 More affordable health insurance and greater consumer input on changes in workers’ compensation rates are among the legislative goals of the South Carolina Small Business Chamber of Commerce (SCSBCC). In a telephone interview Thursday afternoon, SCSBCC President Frank Knapp discussed the organization’s legislative agenda. Knapp said ...

International researcher studies health care issues at NMSU

Although the health care system in the U.S. may be imperfect, an international researcher is collaborating with colleagues at New Mexico State University to study what practices are successful in

Tennessee and Georgia resist health care reform

With less than a year before state legislation must be in place to implement a critical part of national health care reform, Tennessee and Georgia, along with 18 other states, have not made substantial progress toward meeting federal deadlines, according to reports from several nonpartisan organizations.

New York law extends health care coverage

By: Contributing Writer College students may now benefit from President Barack Obama's new health care legislation, which will allow them to remain on their parents' insurance plan until they are 26 years old. New York is among 17 states making headway on the new policy and...

TN Health department puts inspection reports of nursing homes online

Putting inspections online is a requirement of the new federal health-care reform law, the Affordable Care Act.

Mass. AG Coakley to make case for health care law

Attorney General Martha Coakley is heading to Washington to make a legal case for the national health care law that was modeled after Massachusetts' own landmark 2006 health care law.

The Supreme Court ruling: what's at stake for health care?

? The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments about President Obama's health care law next month, as the widely anticipated debate on the constitutionality of the law will finally come to a head.?? These arguments have been awaited since September, when the Obama administration asked the Court to uphold the individual mandate, the bill's centerpiece ...

Utah panelists support health care overhaul

Utah panelists support health care overhaul By pamela manson The Salt Lake Tribune Published Feb 4, 2012 05:25PM MDT President Barack Obama’s sweeping health care legislation led to numerous lawsuits filed by organizations and states — including one by Utah and 25 other states — claiming a requirement that individuals buy health insurance is unconstitutional. But speakers at a Saturday panel ...