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Covered California Has Almost Reached Its Enrollment Goal for March 31
Feb 27, 2014Covered California has almost reached its enrollment goal for March 31, according to numbers released Wednesday. Still, the state plans to spend millions on Spanish-language advertising in the weeks remaining before the open enrollment ...
Tags: Health Insurance, Health Coverage, Health Plan, Obamacare
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Obama Administration's Announcement Will Delay a Health Law Requirement
Feb 26, 2014Today's headlines include detailed coverage of the Obama administration's announcement that it will delay a health law requirement that mid-sized employers provide health insurance to workers while also allowing larger employers more ...
Tags: Medicaid Managed Care, Health Law, Obamacare, Anti-ACA Sentiment
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Visits Considered 'Window of Opportunity' to Ensure Preventive Care
Feb 25, 2014Visits considered “window of opportunity” to ensure preventive care Medical associations widely recommend that women visit their obstetricians and primary care doctors shortly after giving birth, but slightly fewer than half ...
Tags: Obstetricians, window of opportunity, Medicaid, complicated pregnancy
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Today's Headlines Include Stories About The Health Law's Coverage Gap
Feb 25, 2014Today's headlines include stories about the health law's coverage gap. Kaiser Health News: Arkansas' Medicaid Experiment, Key To Obamacare Expansion, On Ropes Kaiser Health News staff writer Phil Galewitz reports: "The Arkansas' ...
Tags: Kaiser Health, Health Law, ACA, CMS
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A Selection of Health Policy Stories From North Carolina, California
Jan 17, 2014A selection of health policy stories from North Carolina, California, Michigan and Missouri. The New York Times: Public Hospitals Hope To Attract More Upscale Patients Under Affordable Care Act But to the Health and Hospitals ...
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People Who Get Insurance Through High-Risk Insurance Pools Will Have an Extra Two Months
Jan 16, 2014Today's headlines include reports about the announcement by the Department of Health and Human Services that people who get their health insurance through high-risk insurance pools will have an extra two months before this program ends. ...
Tags: high-risk insurance, White House, Obamacare, Health Law
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2.1 Million Privately Insured and 4 Million in Government Insurance Plan
Dec 31, 2013Nearly 6 million people are newly insured -- 2.1 million privately insured and 4 million in government insurance plans -- U.S. health officials said Tuesday. "The most recent data indicate more than 2.1 million people have enrolled in a ...
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Obamacare Helps Numbers of Young Adults with Private Health Insurance
Dec 27, 2013More young adults have health insurance now than three years ago. And many of them are getting that coverage under a provision of the Affordable Care Act that allows them to stay on their parents' health policies until they turn 26, U.S. ...
Tags: health insurance, Affordable Care Act, health policies
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Payment Deadline for Those Who Buy Health Insurance Has Been Extended to Jan. 10.
Dec 25, 2013The health insurance industry announced Wednesday that the payment deadline for those who buy health insurance through state and federal exchanges under the final provision of the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, has been ...
Tags: health insurance industry, payment deadline, health insurance
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Most Workers Are Satisfied with The Health Benefits
Dec 23, 2013Most workers are satisfied with the health benefits they have now and express little interest in changing the current mix of benefits and wages offered by their employers, according to a new survey by the nonpartisan Employee Benefit ...
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The Early Morning Highlights Would Begin Jan. 1
Dec 23, 2013The early morning highlights from the major news organizations examine today's deadline for enrolling for health insurance that would begin Jan. 1, as well as a variety of other health law stories and several articles on mental health ...
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HHS Has Taken Steps to Give Those Buying Individual Health Insurance for Jan. 1 Coverage
Dec 16, 2013The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services says it has taken steps to give those buying individual health insurance for Jan. 1 coverage. Kathleen Sebelius, secretary of HHS, says the steps include requiring insurers to accept ...
Tags: Health, Medicine, health insurance
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HHS Reminds Those with No Health Insurance They Must Enroll by DEC. 23
Dec 9, 2013With the website functioning for most, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services reminds those with no health insurance they must enroll by Dec. 23. Federal health officials said Wednesday those who are not provided with health ...
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Federal Website Is The Online Health Insurance Marketplace for 36 States
Nov 18, 2013HealthCare.gov -- was stable all week, with no unscheduled outages, President Obama's adviser said. Jeff Zients, chief performance officer and deputy director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, was brought in to oversee ...
Tags: HealthCare.Gov, outstaged, site
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106,185 U.S. Adults Selected Health Plans,While Another Had Not Yet Selected a Plans
Nov 15, 2013About 106,000 Americans picked health plans in the 30 days of the new enrollment period, with almost a million more in the works, an official said Wednesday. U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said for the first ...
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