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Study: Florida workers face 8 percent health insurance cost hike or higher …
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By LIZ FREEMAN The cost for employer-sponsored health insurance in Florida is expected to increase 8 percent next year or about half that if companies offer higher deductible plans, according to a national survey by Mercer, a benefits consulting …
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Employer Health Insurance Costs Rise as Coverage Declines
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To help cover these rising costs, employers asked employees to pay an additional 63 percent toward their insurance costs over the past eight years. "Whether you live in California, Montana or West Virginia, health insurance is expensive," said Cathy …
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Thomson Reuters Healthcare Spending Index: Insurance Costs Climb 4.3 Percent …
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Ann Arbor, MI November x, 2011 – The cost of healthcare for individuals with employer-sponsored health insurance rose 4.3 percent in the second quarter of 2011 versus the second quarter of 2010 and 1.3 percent versus the first quarter of 2011, …
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Steps were taken to keep salaries, benefits in line
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A few years ago, the district went to a high-deductable plan for employees, moving away from being self-insured. Now, the district is looking at being self-insured once more as a way to cut health-insurance costs. Griffith still is evaluating the …
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To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow individuals a refundable and advancable credit against income tax for health insurance costs, to … in employer subsidized health plans.

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Latah County sees spike in emergency poverty requests
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The University of Idaho has also alleviated some of the indigent cost by requiring students to have insurance. For people who expect to see recurring medical costs from disease, the county will set them up with coverage under Idaho's Pre-existing … Read more on Moscow-Pullman Daily News

Xpress Flex Owner Indicted for Wire Fraud and Theft from a Health Care Benefit …
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BOISE—Michael Wayne Davis, II, 45, of Raleigh, North Carolina, formerly of Eagle, Idaho, was indicted yesterday by a federal grand jury in Boise on eight counts of wire fraud and three counts of theft from a health care benefit plan, United States … Read more on 7thSpace Interactive (press release)

Casino bill would speed electronic medical records
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That law, which became a blueprint for President Barack Obama's health care initiative, requires virtually everyone in the state have health insurance. It also created a subsidized health care program for lower-income residents. … Read more on Boston.com

State OKs health insurance rate hike
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By Kyle Cheney State House News Service BOSTON — As health care cost-control proposals continue to languish in legislative committees, insurance costs are continuing to rise. Patrick administration regulators announced they have approved an average 4 … Read more on The Daily News of Newburyport

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Health insurance premiums, dissected
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We all know that health insurance premiums are going up. But, except for a few more extreme situations (think: Blue Cross of California's massive rate hike mid-health reform debate), we don't spend a lot of time looking at why. … Read more on Washington Post (blog)

IOM panel: Insurance exchanges will fail unless cost factor is faced
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The IOM-convened committee said HHS should choose an essential health benefits package that costs about the same as an average small group health plan, provides a range of services backed by evidence of their medical effectiveness, and balances the … Read more on American Medical News

ObamaCare stands in the way of jobs
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It takes away patient choice and drives up the cost of healthcare. A new report from Kaiser says a typical employer-based health insurance premium has increased by 9 percent in just the past year, with that cost projected to double over the next decade … Read more on The Hill

Health reform worries insurers
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Federal health-care reform has created uncertainty about the future of Guam's health insurance industry and the jobs it provides. Ultimately, it could lead to higher insurance costs for Guam residents, according to government and industry officials. … Read more on Pacific Daily News

US health care flawed, needs reform now
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The 2011 Domenici Public Policy Conference, held on the NMSU campus in Las Cruces last week, brought together experts on America's national debt, economic outlook, national and cyber security, science, technology and health care reform to discuss … Read more on UNM Daily Lobo

South Dakota challenges Federal Health Care Act
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The multi-state litigation challenging the Health-Care Reform Act has now expanded to 26 states plus the assistance of Virginia. On January 31, 2011, the US Federal Court ruled that the Health-Care Reform Act was unconstitutional. On August 12, 2011, … Read more on KSFY