Child Health Insurance Headlines
5 ways your boss is downsizing your health insurance
With the average yearly health insurance premium projected to top $10,000 per worker this year, according to human resources consulting firm Aon Hewitt, employers are doing whatever they can to cut health care costs.
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MetLife Study Finds Parents Have Limited Awareness of Recommended Pediatric Dental Care
While 97% of parents of children ages five and under, with dental insurance, would rate their child’s oral health as excellent or good, many may actually be overly optimistic. A MetLife Study released today reveals many parents are not following recommended guidelines for brushing, flossing, and other habits for optimal pediatric oral health.
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Health Insurance for Children in 2012: eHealthInsurance Publishes Updated Data on Open Enrollment Periods and Product ...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA-- - Today eHealthInsurance , the leading online source of health insurance for individuals, families and small businesses, released an updated list of open enrollment periods for child-only ...
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Church leaders denounce health insurance rule
Some church-affiliated institutions in the Quad-City area might have a difficult choice to make about health insurance coverage for their employees after a federal guidelines change that caused Roman Catholic leaders to issue a call for action.
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CampDoc.com and Markel Insurance Join Forces to Reduce Risk for Campers and Staff at Camp
ANN ARBOR, MI-- - CampDoc LLC, a comprehensive web-based health management system designed specifically for camps, and Markel Insurance Company, a leading insurer of camps, have teamed up to help camps ...
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Project Self-Sufficiency hosts enrollment for New Jersey Family Care Health Insurance
NEWTON Project Self-Sufficiency offers open enrollment appointments for New Jersey Family Care, the health insurance plan offered by the state of New Jersey to eligible children and low-income parents, every Wednesday morning, from 9 to 11 a.m., and every Thursday evening, from 6 to 8 p.m.
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Child welfare tops legislative priorities
LINCOLN (AP) - State lawmakers returning to Lincoln next week may have a brighter budget outlook, but will be facing potentially expensive decisions over child welfare services and a federal mandate to help the uninsured.
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The poor pay the price for Obama’s politics
Some issues fade; others fester. The Obama administration’s contraceptive mandate for religious charities, hospitals and universities is the festering kind. The initial reaction concerned the rights of institutions. Catholic organizations naturally resent being forced to buy health insurance that covers sterilization, contraceptives and drugs that can end a pregnancy soon after conception. The ...
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Health mandate to include birth control
The Obama administration recently ruled that health insurance plans must include contraception among the preventive services available to women without deductibles or co-pays under the new health-care law [“Contraception mandate outrages religious groups,” Health, seattletimes.com, Feb. 3].
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