State OK's disputed health plan rules
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Despite impassioned testimony from healthcare advocates and union officials for a higher threshold, the Romney administration yesterday finalized rules that allow businesses to avoid a $295 per employee fee by making relatively modest contributions to their employees' healthcare.
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State budget pressures threaten to undo gains in health insurance coverage for children and the poor, according to two surveys released Monday.
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U.S. congressional leaders on Friday said they reached agreement on legislation to expand a health-care program for children in low-income families, setting up a potential showdown with President George W. Bush who has vowed to veto it.
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California moved significantly closer to enacting a broad expansion of health insurance coverage on Monday when the Democratic-controlled Assembly passed legislation that has the backing of the Republican governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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Three amendments on malpractice suits and patient safety passed, but doctors and lawyers remain at odds. By LISA GREENE, Times Staff Writer.
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The requirement was praised by health advocates but caught many by surprise in a largely conservative state where sexual politics is often a battleground.
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New Jersey officials asked a federal judge yesterday to block new Bush administration rules that would make it harder for states to enroll middle-income kids in a popular government-subsidized health insurance program for children.
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Texas officials argue that a new rule to disclose the size of their health care obligation to retirees does not apply to their state.
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It is a relief that bipartisanship worked during the special session in solving the stateâs health insurance problem. Both the House and Senate passed the revision of the plan and Gov.
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Despite critics who say patientsâ bills of rights laws are actually designed to protect health care providers, new research published in the current issue of the American Journal of Medicine found just the opposite.
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Cross-party group wants to remove delays and need for two doctors to approve terminations.
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THE REGION State regulators heard testimony again on a new system for apportioning among automobile insurers those drivers that no company wants to cover voluntarily. The so-called assigned-risk plan was put in place at the end of the Romney administration, but Governor Deval Patrick put it on hold so a study group appointed by his administration could review it. The ...
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San Francisco's universal health-care plan, a first-of-its kind local program to be funded in part by fees from employers, may go forward while under appeal, a U.S. appeals court panel ruled on Wednesday.
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State efforts to transform the nationâs health care system appear to be on a collision course with the Bush administrationâs latest budget proposal.
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The state General Assembly approved a medical malpractice overhaul package early Thursday aimed at cutting doctors' skyrocketing insurance costs, but Gov. Robert Ehrlich said he would veto it because it includes a tax on HMO premiums.
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California's Assembly on  Monday approved Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's plan for universal  health insurance as overhauling health care gains national  prominence ahead of the 2008 presidential election.
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By John Stark, The Bellingham Herald, Bellingham, Wash.  Sep. 17--The courtroom battle over the fate of the Healthy Bay Initiative will be heard Monday before Whatcom County Superior Court Judge Ira Uhrig.