Health Care News
New county program broadens health care access
As a result of new federal health care rules, Path2Health could assist an additional 2,600 uninsured adult residents in Sonoma County.
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Rockford School District pushes new health plan for teachers
ROCKFORD — The Rockford School District is asking its teachers union to consider a plan that could reel in the district’s skyrocketing health care costs.
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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.
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Coventry Health Care Inc. Fourth Quarter Earnings Sneak Peek
Here's what you need to know for the upcoming earnings release ...
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Catholic leaders call health care ruling trap
Bishop Paul Swain of the Sioux Falls Catholic Diocese has joined other church leaders in decrying a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services ruling that they say forces them into a moral dilemma.
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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.
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University of Memphis study gauges costs of federal health care reform
Health care reform will reduce the number of uninsured Tennesseans by more than half, but the newly insured could put a strain on the state's health care system.
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Sen. Bill Haine: Obama must lift health care mandate
Later this year, all health insurance plans will be required by federal law to pay for contraceptives such as sterilization, birth control pills, and abortion-inducing drugs.
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Louisiana rolls out new Medicaid managed care program
Louisiana's Medicaid program on Wednesday started providing health care through private managed care networks in nine parishes around New Orleans, the first step in a sweeping revamp of the program that provides care to the poor.
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