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Employers shift disability insurance costs to workers and trim benefits - The Washington Post

Disability insurance is one of those under-the-radar benefits you may take for granted, especially if your employer picks up the tab for the coverage, as many firms do.

Your Career: Healthcare options dwindling

Alane Basco, from Poulsbo, Wa., lost her job in 2008 and was on her husband’s insurance plan until he switched to a new employer who didn’t offer health coverage. She was on COBRA through his old company until she couldn’t afford it anymore and is now uninsured.

Citizens seeks 430 percent increase in Florida sinkhole insurance rates | sinkhole, citizens, percent - WPEC 12 West Palm Beach

If insurance companies can pull this off then tell me what the cannot do.  What other coverages could rise similarly?

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Mental health and managed plans in NY: Capitation at work

On January 5, 2011 Governor Andrew M. Cuomo signed an Executive Order establishing the Medicaid Redesign Team. It will effect everyone in NY and possibly your state as well.

The thorn that fell the lion: the PPACA's downfall

Major health insurers to stop offering new child-only policies

Some of the country's most prominent health insurance companies have decided to stop offering new child-only plans, rather than comply with rules in the new health-care law that will require such plans to start accepting children with preexisting medical conditions after Sept. 23.

Report: Thousands of Michigan Children Live Without Health Care Coverag

The center's Marianne Udow-Phillips says that number will improve as new federal health insurance rules take effect, but that process will take years.

18 States Refuse To Run Insurance Pools For Those With Preexisting Conditions

Eighteen states have said they will not administer a stopgap program to provide insurance coverage to people whose preexisting health conditions have left them uninsured, forcing the federal government to do the work, says the Washington Post.