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The Motley Fool September 18, 2007 Dan Caplinger	Health Insurance ... or Else Health insurance can protect you from huge medical bills. Yet for a variety of reasons, many people go without health insurance. Now, government leaders are taking a new approach toward making sure everyone gets the medical care they need.
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.
Inc. October 2003 Alison Stein Wellner	Candidates' Take on Premiums A guide to the Democratic presidential candidates' proposals for making health insurance more affordable.
Managed Care February 2008	Employer-Backed Insurance Gets Nonpartisan Nod The majority of Americans believe that universal coverage costs should be shared by individuals, employers, and the government.
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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
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The Motley Fool October 30, 2006 Tim Beyers	Foolish Advice on Life Insurance Life insurance seems simple. And it should be. But more and more agents are selling complex, commission-boosting products that do little for consumers. Be cautious and buy only the minimum.
Managed Care September 2000	Any way you cut it, employers appear to save if Medicare adopts drug benefit A new analysis suggests that a prescription drug benefit in Medicare would reduce employer expense for health coverage--which, in turn, could encourage more employers to offer some form of drug coverage and thus reverse this erosion...
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Managed Care March 2000	Employers Predict Liability Expansion Bad for Coverage How employers would respond if patients were allowed to sue employer-sponsored health plans.
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Managed Care October 2001	Small businesses use aggressive tactics to keep benefit costs down Small and mid-sized employers (10-999 workers) saw average health-benefit-premium increases of 9.2 percent last year. Marsh Inc. reports that these companies aggressively blunted the effects of fast-rising health care costs...
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Managed Care May 2004	Health Care Security Trumps Federal Tax Cuts Survey results demonstrate just how important a topic universal health care and coverage is to the majority of Americans.
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 July 2007	ERISA Proposes Using TPAs A coalition of the country's largest employers said health care coverage and retirement plans for American workers should be delivered by third-party administrators such as banks, investment companies, and insurers.
Entrepreneur March 2006 Chris Penttila	Healing Hands Here's how some states are easing the health-insurance burden.
Job Journal August 26, 2007 Michael Kinsman	Career Pros: No Cure for Healthcare Costs? Has healthcare coverage become too costly for employers to provide?
On Wall Street June 1, 2010 Tim Steffen	Taking Your (tax) Medicine High-net-worth individuals need to plan today for significant healthcare tax changes ahead.
Managed Care February 2008 John Carroll	Move to Mandatory Coverage Wouldn't Ensure Universality Compared to the existing state of affairs, there's a lot to like in mandatory coverage, but the Massachusetts experiment is a lesson to not expect miracles.
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Managed Care April 2000	More consumers have choice of health plans, but is it enough to make HMOs responsive? Competition benefits consumers, the theory goes. Policy makers who seek to alter market forces in health care should keep this corollary of capitalism in mind, says the Center for Studying Health System Change, a Washington-based think tank....
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Inc. December 2005 Alison Stein Wellner	Do-It-Yourself Insurance There is a competitive market for individual insurance policies. But you may want to think twice before sending your employees off on their own.
Managed Care July 2000 Bob Carlson	What Legislature? Health Care Issues Increasingly Going Straight to Voters Residents of Massachusetts and Washington State may have a chance to opt for universal health care, in the form of physician-led ballot initiatives, this November.
BusinessWeek August 16, 2004 Laura D'Andrea Tyson	Kerry's Health Plan: Coverage For (Almost) All As insurance premiums soar, and worries over joblessness take hold of many Americans, health insurance has emerged as a potent issue that could tip the balance in this year's Presidential election.
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