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Study: Health costs climb 
Northwest Herald - Sep 28 11:34 PM
U.S. companies will pay an average of 8 percent more for employees’ health insurance next year, said Towers Perrin, a human-resources consultant.

Insurance for infertility treatment lags 
Grand Forks Herald - 2 hours, 12 minutes ago
CHICAGO - Alyce Robins counts herself among the lucky ones. After seven rounds of infertility treatment, she had a baby girl, and her health insurance paid for nearly everything - costs totaling well over $30,000. The 34-year-old suburban Chicago woman is also one of the rare ones.

Don’t take chances; buy flood insurance 
Delta Democrat Times - Sep 30 1:38 PM
Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood has taken on the insurance industry by suing insurers to force them to pay billions of dollars in flood damage from Hurricane Katrina, saying standard insurance polices have led homeowners to believe they are covered for all hurricane damage, whether from high winds or storm surges.

New state health insurance plan designed to help small businesses 
Montanaforum.com - Sep 28 7:31 AM
Bob Dalrymple took about 10 minutes this week to fill out an application that could save him thousands of dollars and give his employees their first shot at health insurance.

Cox HealthPlans Selects Private Healthcare Systems PPO Network Services
dBusinessNews.com - HealthPlans offers a variety of cost-effective health insurance products to meet the needs of all deeply committed to providing affordable, quality health care options for a wide

Forrester courts seniors in Monroe stop
Home News Tribune - By GREGORY J. taxes, prescription drugs and long-term care more affordable.’When we turn over the state to the long-term care insurance; and leverage the State Employee Health Benefits Plan to

State, Blue Cross far apart on CHIP premium price agreement
Montana Standard - HELENA - Health officials said Monday the state is willing to pay a 3.45 percent increase in premiums for the program that provides health insurance to more than 11,000 kids in low-income families. program that provides health coverage to kids whose families can’t find affordable insurance elsewhere

Affordable Health Care aims to live up to name
Calhoun Times - Sharon Baker talks about the new clinic for people without insurance that will be in the old health department building. Ryan Smith / RN-T For people with money, there’s health insurance. For people without it, there’s Medicaid. Baker as executive director at Affordable Health Care LLC, the two plan to

health insurance for your employees’ kids
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A Winner in the Breast-Cancer Fight
Business Week - insurance-reimbursement trends. Digital mammography also offers an associated long-term cost benefit to the health a strong small-cap growth vehicle the women’s health-care markets.

Business Online Services Market to Top $36 Billion in 2005, Says Simba Information
Tekrati - Business Online Services Market to Top $36 insurance and patient education. Traditional health care information publishers are making acquisitions and forming alliances with small

Neal St. Anthony: Biggest business headache isn’t taxes
Star Tribune - At the same time, businesses still consider it their responsibility to be a partner in offering health care coverage. small employers rank ‘access to affordable health care’ as the top challenge, according to the annual ‘Business of big health insurance consolidators such as United Health

Where the (Good) Jobs Are
inc.com - Skip to the content of this page Principal Financial names 10 small and medium-sized businesses that offer better benefits than their peers. Sept. small and medium-sized businesses based in the U.S. that have offered, as a minimum, ‘traditional’ benefits relating to retirement, health

Starbucks CEO: Health care rocketing
AP via Seattle Post Intelligencer - will spend more on health insurance for its employees this year than on raw materials needed to brew Wednesday that the growth rate of health insurance premiums failed to reach

Gullible’s Travails
Middlefield Town Times - lots of overseas travel, I reluctantly have to rate my fellow Americans as among the greatest marks he bought them off with health insurance, pensions, better wages, shorter hours

City taxes rise in $38.7M budget
Rome Sentinel - calls for a 1.97 percent hike in the property tax rate was proposed today by Mayor James F that most increases were in places like health insurance and contracted salaries

Conn. law limits age for infertility coverage
MSNBC - mid-30s, the success rate for assisted reproductive technology The insurance industry argued that the expensive, high-stakes treatments would ultimately drive up health care costs

Neal St. Anthony: Biggest business headache isn't taxes
Minneapolis Star Tribune (subscription), MN - 7 hours ago got to give here — and it's probably not going to be the soaring stocks of big health insurance consolidators such as United Health Group and WellPoint. Gov.

AirTran Airways Offers Travel Protection Services to Its Customers
Finanzen.net, Germany - 12 minutes ago marketer of life and supplemental health insurance products and fee and Stonebridge Casualty Insurance Company are members of the AEGON Group, one of

The truth about privatisation
Aliran Monthly, Malaysia - 12 hours ago crucial obligation and duty to provide to the lower-income group and the with an imminent privatised healthcare system and a national health insurance scheme?

Aetna Medicare Hosts Medicare Part D Educational Workshops and
Business Wire (press release), CA - 17 hours ago members, 9.117 million pharmacy members and 13.662 million group insurance members to help them make better informed decisions about their health care and

New health care plan will help uninsured workers
News-Leader.com, MO - 57 minutes ago why it's good to see the news of AIMCare, a health insurance product for small business owners and their employees. Under traditional group health care plans

Expanded hurricane relief urged Senators warn White House to back plan or face defeat
SignOn San Diego - of his own party over how best to deliver health care to impoverished hurricane victims evacuees previously entitled to federal health insurance mainly women and children but

Health-insurance costs set to rise again
Swiss Info - Health-insurance premiums will increase by an average of 5.6 per cent next year, mainly due to in the world.The current health-insurance law, which has been in

Romney Pushes Health Reform Plan
The Boston Channel - Mitt Romney and the Legislature. Key Democrats believe some employers will have to be forced to provide insurance or pay a penalty.’Some are free-riding the system. Romney Pushes Health Reform Plan Governor Rejects Assessment On Employers POSTED: 1:35 pm EDT September 29 the taxpayers pay for their health insurance program and we don’t think

The link between health, education
Denver Post - Medicaid or the state Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) - two safety nets largest public provider of children’s health insurance, Medicaid covers all medically necessary

Out-of-pocket health fees double
Townsville Bulletin - A national report on health expenditure reveals that in 2003-04, Australians spent $15 billion in a relationship between the increasing health insurance coverage in recent years and

Word on the Street 
Coeur d’Alene Press - Sep 28 10:32 PM
Ground has been broken on the Post Falls Del Taco at Highway 41 and Mullan Avenue. The 2,335-square-foot facility, which will include a Funland, is expected to be finished in March or April, said Steve Ridenour of North River Development.

Slap in face for Equitable policyholders 
Scotsman - Sep 24 4:41 PM
ERNST & Young gloats as court case collapses, but stricken pensioners have nothing to laugh about

Shares weaker on Wall St lead 
NEWS.com.au - Sep 21 5:42 PM
THE share market has opened weaker, following a negative lead from Wall Street with investors nervous about the potential impact of Hurricane Rita.

Searching For The Visionary President 
Ghanaweb.com - Sep 07 10:33 PM
an engineer, a lawyer, a pastor? The premises of this piece is to challenge those who in the past few days have argued that Engineers are better suited as Presidents than Lawyers are. They have not only espoused myopic views, but dangerous and fallacious opinions as well.

California Earthquake Authority seeks lower quake insurance in wake of Katrina 
San Diego Daily Transcript via Yahoo! News - Sep 25 3:01 AM
SAN FRANCISCO — As federal, state and local officials grapple with the financial and physical ruin wrought by Hurricane Katrina, momentum is building to make earthquake insurance offered by the semipublic California Earthquake Authority more affordable.

Battle Bulging Premiums: Affordable Healthcare Options for Women Business Owners and Employees; Leading Healthcare 
RedNova - Sep 29 7:14 AM
According to a survey by Mercer Human Resources Consulting, healthcare costs are anticipated to increase by almost 10 percent in 2006, which is three times the rate of inflation. With this in mind, women business owners are on the hunt for affordable options.

Rising Healthcare Costs Blamed on Lack of Accountability 
RedNova - Sep 28 8:36 PM
By James Monahan (This article originally ran in St. Charles Business Record, St. Louis, MO, another Dolan Media publication.) Ask an employer to identify the biggest and fastest-growing cost issue business faces today, and chances are the response is health care insurance.

Strike possibility second this year for River Valley 
CentralOhio.com - Sep 29 10:19 AM
MARION - As River Valley Local Schools prepared for the second possibility of an employees’ strike this year, both sides are accusing each other of negotiating in the media.

Court adopts budget, sets tax rate 
Gilmer Mirror - Sep 28 3:35 PM
The Upshur County Commissioners Court adopted a $14,994,000 budget for fiscal year 2005-2006 Wednesday, then adopted a tax rate of $.5494 per $100 assessed valuation to help fund it. Votes were unanimous.

Cost estimates prove difficult to pin down
Newport Daily News, RI - 2 hours ago By Sean Flynn/Daily News staff. NEWPORT - Just how much Newport's health insurance liability is for its current and future retirees seems to be a moving target.

Graduate insurance concerns addressed
Red and Black - Sep 27, 2005 Chris Kelson, a doctoral candidate of geology from Athens, maintains that health insurance is an important issue to graduate students.

Insurance plan awaits its fate
Bowling Green News, OH - 14 hours ago The Board of Trustees will finally vote on Friday to decide whether or not to make health insurance mandatory for students, starting in the 2006-2007 school

Health insurance chief offered no useful advice
Kennebec Journal, ME - Sep 25, 2005 Now the president of Maine's largest health insurance company, Anthem BCBS, would have us "just say 'no' " to disease ("Insurer: Be healthy to lower cost," Sept

School Board Approves Health Insurance Change, Ending Contract
WIFR, IL - Sep 27, 2005 The change reduces the Blue Cross/Blue Shield premiums to equal that of the contract's other insurance provider, United Health Care.

Barbour mulls broad recovery agenda 
Hattiesburg American - Sep 26 8:34 AM
JACKSON - Gov. Haley Barbour’s draft agenda for this week’s special legislative session includes a wide variety of topics, from creating a small-business loan program to waiving out-of-state hunting and fishing license fees for Hurricane Katrina evacuees.

Business > 
WCCO 4 - Sep 26 1:41 PM
(AP) Minneapolis Murray Specktor, a first officer who flew Boeing 747-400s on Northwest Airlines’ Asian routes, took early retirement this year at the age of 52, knowing he wouldn’t get a huge pension.

They’ve Got You Covered 
BusinessWeek - Sep 25 5:47 PM
New state partnerships help make insurance affordable for small business

Dingwall dogged by - and dodged - controversy throughout his career 
CNews - Sep 28 4:46 PM
David Dingwall, president of the Royal Canadian Mint, stands by a facsimile of the new wartime five-cent piece unveiled in Dartmouth, N.S., recently.