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Managed Care July 2005 MargaretAnn Cross	Efforts To Cover the Uninsured An Opportunity for Health Plans Employers and state governments are getting together to design imaginative insurance programs to cover low-pay workers.
Managed Care December 2001	Tie to Employers Stresses Fragility Of Health Coverage About two thirds of Americans receive health insurance through their employers or families, and many gain or lose coverage when they marry, divorce, or move to new jobs...
The Motley Fool August 29, 2007 Dan Caplinger	Play It Safe With Your Health Census Bureau figures indicate 47 million Americans do not have health insurance. High deductible insurance is one solution that may help these individuals to avoid a potential financial disaster.
Managed Care September 2000	WellPoint Product Makes New Bid For Working Poor WellPoint Health Networks is trying to attract an underinsured, price-sensitive market: the working poor. WellPoint hopes its new low-cost plans will lure small employers and uninsured people who earn under 200 percent of poverty...
Managed Care February 2002	Small Employers Want To Sidestep Giving Benefits The recession and higher medical costs are causing small employers to take a hard look at their sponsorship of health benefits...
IndustryWeek August 1, 2004 Traci Purdum	Health Care For All A coalition of large, global companies has a plan to offer the uninsured access to affordable insurance. That's welcomed news to 44 million Americans without health-care protection.
Managed Care December 2003	Pay-or-Play Ideas Make Employers Help Uninsured Employers would have to "pay or play" in some proposals for how to boost coverage for the uninsured.
Managed Care January 2001	Private Proposals Aim To Reduce Lack of Coverage Two new proposals to solve the conundrum of Americans without health coverage would build on the country's existing health system...
Fast Company October 2006	Fast Talk: Medic! Lois Quam says our balky health-care system presents a "classic redesign challenge."
Managed Care October 2000	Employer-based coverage up in strong economy Health insurance premiums rose 8.3 percent over the past year for all types of coverage, according to an annual survey of employers...
Job Journal July 25, 2004 Michael Kinsman	Career Pros: Too Few Workers Insured When a problem affects nearly 44 million Americans, it becomes everyone's problem. Industry leaders hope to fund expanded coverage.
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Managed Care August 2006	One Insurer, One Think-Tank Issue Studies of High-Deductible Plans High-deductible health plans are in the news and on the minds of researchers.
Managed Care January 2007 John Carroll	Erosion of Employer-Sponsored Health Care: Bad for Everyone More companies are offering less coverage - or none at all. Even those that offer coverage find that more of their workers choose not to sign up.
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The Motley Fool September 6, 2011 Dan Caplinger	Make Your Job Work Harder for You You need to make the most of what employee benefits your employer gives you.
Managed Care November 2003	Calif. Businesses Vow To Fight Coverage Law A new law that makes employers extend health benefits to about a million uninsured Californians will be watched carefully. Opponents of the law, signed by Gov. Gray Davis two days before the recall vote that ousted him, vow to challenge it in the courts.
Managed Care September 2005 Martin Sipkoff	The Private Sector Can, Should, and Will Help Solve the Problem of the Uninsured WellPoint Chairman Leonard Schaeffer and other health plan leaders believe they can help with the chronic societal issue of uninsured Americans.
Managed Care May 2002	Small employers plan to shift increased costs to workers Small companies -- those with 3 to 24 employees -- are bracing for continuing health care cost increases, and indicate that they may have to shift more of that expense to workers
BusinessWeek October 8, 2009	Alternatives to COBRA Once the current government subsidy for COBRA health insurance premiums expires other insurance options may make more sense. Here are some guidelines.
Managed Care April 2007	Comparing Congressional Health Care Proposals A review of health care reform bills proposed by Congress shows that many of them would cover more uninsured Americans than the current administration proposal.
The Motley Fool April 14, 2005 Stephen D. Simpson	UnitedHealth Keeps Growing Strong Can anything slow down this health insurance titan? Investors will probably come out OK even as growth slows down across the industry.
Managed Care May 2003	High Profits Seen for HMOs Through 2003 The good times will go on for most health plans in terms of earnings through the rest of this year, experts believe. That's because rate hikes are "in excess of medical trends," Rob Mains, an analyst with Advest, tells Business Insurance.
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BusinessWeek January 12, 2004	Health Care: The Patient Will Live, But... Employers and consumers will continue to get hammered by rising premiums, but health-care costs will rise a bit more slowly, which is good news for insurers.
Managed Care November 1999 Steve Wetzell	To Cure Risk Aversion, Employers Eye Risk Adjustment ...The more employers can get consumers involved in the game, the more providers will become directly accountable to consumers. Under traditional managed care, employers -- without realizing it -- have put themselves in the middle of the relationship between physicians and their patients...
Managed Care November 2001 Michael D. Dalzell	The Uninsured: How Health Plans Can Do Well By Doing Good While health plans battle for market share, 38 million Americans are uninsured. At least some could be signed up, but pursuing them is not without risk...
Managed Care March 2002	M+C Enrollees Bound to Their Choice Until June A lock-in mechanism for Medicare+Choice that kicked in Jan. 1 narrows the period during which enrollees can switch from health plan to health plan...
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Managed Care August 2005	Who's Responsible For Controlling Costs? When it comes to controlling rising health care costs, consumers think the responsibility rests squarely on health insurance companies' shoulders, a new survey says.
Reason November 2004 Ronald Bailey	Mandatory Health Insurance Now! It will save private medicine in the U.S. -- and spur medical innovation.
Entrepreneur March 2008 Mark Henricks	An Apple a Day . . . When Jason Crawforth started Treetop Tech Inc. in 1997, he didn't offer employees company-sponsored health coverage. Today, he is finding there are more avenues to get health insurance.
Managed Care June 2007 Lola Butcher	Big Companies Holding Fast To Employer-Sponsored System In board rooms across the country, decisions are being made to battle, rather than run from, rising costs of health care.
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Managed Care August 2006 Frank Diamond	Return to Jackson Hole? The Push for a Standard Benefit A nationwide discussion about making health care available to all Americans gives new life to an old idea.
Managed Care May 2005	Headlines On Deadline ... Far from final words on obesity were splashed across headlines last month... Most uninsured people do not pay taxes, because they have low incomes... General Motors blamed its largest quarterly loss in more than a decade on the increased costs of providing health care coverage... etc.
The Motley Fool January 22, 2009 Brian Orelli	UnitedHealth Says Good Riddance to 2008 For 2009 the company is looking for earnings essentially flat compared to last year. That doesn't seem so bad, considering that it's expecting to lose as many as 1.5 million members as the unemployment rate grows.
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