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TriZetto Signs Agreement With Physicians Health Plan of Mid-Michigan and South Michigan to Provide Business Processing  
RedNova - 2 hours, 33 minutes ago
The TriZetto Group Inc. (NASDAQ:TZIX) announced it has signed a seven-year agreement with Physicians Health Plan of Mid-Michigan (PHPMM) and Physicians Health Plan of South Michigan (PHPSM) to provide business processing services and software hosting.Save to My Web

A test of family faith in tribal Africa 
International Herald Tribune - Jan 30 5:30 AM
Rick Maples, with a member of the Samburu tribe in Kurungu, a remote part of Kenya where he and his wife are pursuing their work as missionaries. They envision developing what they call a Samburu-style church.Save to My Web

State of the Union: ‘Bush-Care’ Is Junk Health Care Plan, Widow with $450K in Medical Bills Says 
[Press Release] U.S. Newswire via Yahoo! News - Jan 30 3:33 PM
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Health Premiums Rise, but Not as Fast 
WebMD - Jan 30 4:32 PM
Premiums for private health insurance reached their slowest rate of growth since 2002 last year, according to a study released by the industry’s main lobbying group.Save to My Web

Open up and say ha!
Boston Globe, United States - Jan 25, 2006 fans have — and can quote liberally from to bring more than 28,000 dental health professionals to Ulcerative Gingivitis," ''Imagine (No Insurance)," and ''The

Health Plan Shortens Sales Cycle by 50 Percent
CRM Today - Jan 17, 2006 Health Plans, a Virginia-based health insurance provider is using Pivotal Healthcare Insurance to streamline its by 50 percent, increased its quote to sale

Peace, love and profit - meet the world's richest organic grocer
The Observer, UK - Jan 29, 2006 net around $30,000 a year, plus health insurance - a better The anti-establishment hero of the health-food movement ask me not to 'use that quote about unions

Tips regarding Plan D
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, IN - Dec 30, 2005 Based on limited experience with the program, Senior Health Insurance Information Program is drug prices Medicare Advantage Plans do not quote retail prices

Reid fires back at Bush: The president has been giving us
Raw Story, MA - Jan 24, 2006 One of the things I remember discussing was a quote by Lord Acton We have 46 million Americans without health insurance and poverty numbers on the rise but

Sheriff proposes FY 2007 budget
Boone Today,  USA - 19 hours ago is at $20,724. Health insurance is at $113,248. by 4 percent. FICA is $25,470; IPERS is $19,405 and health insurance is $103,344.

News Briefs
Insurance Networking News, NY - 11 hours ago important qualities of our new data center," says Kenneth R. Melani, MD, president and CEO of Highmark Inc., a Philadelphia-based health insurance company.

SEMA Urges President Bush to Emphasize Need for 'Small Business
Business Wire (press release), CA - 1 hour ago uninsured. An estimated 25 million small-business owners, employees and their families are currently without health insurance. Many

Locals seek Medicare plan help
San Luis Obispo Tribune, CA - 16 hours ago More and more around the county, experts say, bewildered seniors are seeking help from private health insurance agents who have unexpectedly become Medicare

Health insurance perk should be canceled
Marion Chronicle Tribune, IN - Jan 27, 2006 Bosma ordered the end of free lifetime health insurance for current and future House members, their spouses, ex-spouses and minor children.

Southwest Bancorp, Inc. Reports Earnings
MSN Money - 5 hours ago focus on serving healthcare and health professionals, businesses 9,910 9,223 FDIC and other insurance 126 119 Income/ Yield Balance Expense /Rate Assets Total

The Next Policy Bungle?
Washington Post, United States - 14 hours ago the object here is to restrain America's extraordinary rate of medical spending, ending the tax deductibility of insurance so that all health spending comes

Caring for Carson
The Missoulian, MT - Jan 29, 2006 changing Carson's diapers while a machine blinks and beeps, monitoring the child's heart rate, breathing and 31 and has no health insurance from the county.

Deadline to accept or decline student health insurance Tuesday
Northern Star Online, IL - 12 hours ago The NIU Insurance Plan offers a rate for individual The rate for individual students is not subsidized by than most major plans, including health plans offered

Garamendi Seeks Tighter Regulation of PPOs, According to
Yahoo! News (press release) - 3 hours ago regulators have caught on that the majority of the health care insurance business has He also said that large premium rate hikes have contributed to the

Potomac Fever: Congressional sunshine has become a total fog 
The Des Moines Register - Jan 29 2:04 AM
As the election year ramps up, Democrats are hitting hard on their theme of corruption in Congress. One prime example appears to be the “conference…Save to My Web

Is the Battle for Guidant “Irrational”? 
BusinessWeek - Jan 17 9:10 PM
The bidding war between J&J and Boston Scientific has some Wall Street pros shaking their heads, but it shows how desperate both companies are Save to My Web

Owens to deliver last State of State 
Rocky Mountain News - Jan 11 11:46 PM
Friends, Gov. Bill Owens today will deliver his eighth and final State of the State address.Save to My Web

Many people now know it’s good to question authority 
St. Petersburg Times - Jan 07 10:17 PM
Re: The baby boom turns 60. On the Jan. 1 front page was the following quote: “When I was a kid, you looked up to authority. Today, it’s just the opposite.”Save to My Web

Top Health Insurance Quote, Information Web Site Offers State
PR Web (press release), WA - Jan 22, 2006 The Health Insurance Resource Center at healthinsurance.org has added state-specific sections on its site with information targeted for California and Texas

Business Expo garners rave reviews
Montrose Daily Press, CO - Jan 14, 2006 a thing as affordable health (insurance), Bagnara said. They think it s an oxymoron, and I have the ability right at the booth to give a quote and they

Bulgarian State Covers Up Hospital Debts
Sofia News Agency, Bulgaria - Dec 29, 2005 being entirely financed by the National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF in their efforts to improve the health system in message only if you kindly quote the source

County health insurance increase capped at 3.8 percent
Storm Lake Pilot Tribune, IA - Jan 18, 2006 some good news as they found that health insurance premiums will Lanphere said if the insurance premium rate would increase to bring back a price quote to the

Novo Nordisk 2005 earnings, sales rise
BusinessWeek - Jan 27, 2006 27 3:15 PM ET Danish health care company Novo Nordisk AS The AARP Auto Insurance Program from The Hartford offers great rates, peace Click for your free quote.

Struggle shows obstacle
Kansas.com, KS - 16 hours ago of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists By contrast, the treatment the insurance company allowed cost neither he nor the Bowles family could afford

Health care solution barely noticed
Arizona Republic, AZ - 20 hours ago Having enjoyed The Republic's insightful six-part series on the health care insurance crisis and the compelling family profiles, I was befuddled by your

Westside health center set for February opening
Corpus Christi Caller Times, TX - Jan 27, 2006 on the $2.6-million, 12,500-square-foot Christus Spohn Family Health Center Westside at highest enrollment in the Nueces Aid low-income insurance plan, after

Readers to Bush: Give us solutions
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, NY - Jan 28, 2006 year later, with bills mounting at more than $7,800 a month, the family was forced and son-in-law can work full-time jobs and still not have health insurance.

Traveling MammoVans bring tests to uninsured
Cleveland Plain Dealer, OH - 5 hours ago the free exams Saturday to women who have little or no health insurance. lack of transportation, reliance on emergency rooms instead of family doctors and fear

Businesses scramble for insurance
Herald Times Reporter, WI - Jan 22, 2006 Like Pietroske, he wasn't willing to go with a health insurance plan without Holy Family Memorial in-network. "I wasn't willing

Hearing will seek details of health plan
DetNews.com, MI - 5 hours ago She wants to provide health insurance for those who earn less than a federal poverty or below the federal poverty level income of $18,850 for a family of four

Montana Inks Small Business Health Insurance Contract
Insurance Journal - Jan 23, 2006 health insurance can buy it from the health insurance pool businesses and their workers who get insurance through the $490 for an employee and a family with two

Health clinics partner to increase access to care
Fitchburg Sentinel, MA - Jan 16, 2006 and families who do not have health insurance or who without insurance or with limited insurance most times free, based on the federal family income guidelines

Sound Health Insurance Is the Newest Plan Offered by UniCare of Texas to Reach “Young Invincibles” 
[Press Release] PR Web - Jan 27 12:10 AM
Sound Health plans are targeted at Texas’ 1.2 million uninsureds between the ages of 19-29, and offer a truly original approach to health care coverage starting 2-1-2006. “Sound is fun, affordable, easy to understand and includes preventive, emergency and pharmacy benefits. These young invincibles can choose from the Gravity Bender, Curb Jumper and The Cruisers,” says UniCare Premier Agent Jeff Save to My Web

Health Business 
UPI - Jan 27 7:57 AM
WASHINGTON, Jan. 27 (UPI) — Rep. John Dingell, D-Mich., slammed healthcare provisions in the 2006 budget reconciliation bill, poked fun at the Medicare prescription plan and renewed his call for universal health coverage Thursday at a national healthcare conference in Washington.Save to My Web

Health system OK, says Bob 
Toowoomba Chronicle - Jan 26 1:28 PM
By Susan Searle BOB HAYES is confident that if he needed help, the Toowoomba Health Service would be there. The 76-year-old Toowoomba blacksmith says he doesn’t have private health insurance, nor does he have contacts in high places.Save to My Web

Aetna Board Approves Added Share Buyback 
AP via Yahoo! Finance - Jan 27 10:02 AM
Health insurance giant Aetna Inc. said Friday that its board has authorized the company to repurchase up to $750 million of its common stock.Save to My Web

SAM'S CLUB Introduces Affordable Health Insurance Solution
PR Newswire (press release), NY - Dec 30, 2005 of individual health insurance plans to provide employers and their employees with a broad choice of affordable individual health insurance plans from major

Children eligible for free health care
Westwood Press, MA - Jan 18, 2006 affordable health coverage is available for every child in Massachusetts. That's right - no child in Massachusetts need go without affordable insurance coverage

'Old school' doctor always in
TimesCommunity.com, VA - Jan 25, 2006 time savings in quickly dealing directly with a doctor appealing, and those less well-off with no health insurance find the cost of treatment more affordable.

A Blueprint for Health-care Freedom
Cato Institute, DC - Jan 25, 2006 more affordable for workers who cannot obtain coverage, either because they are too sick or too poor. Push hard for interstate commerce in health insurance.

Democrats in Advance of State of the Union Address Criticize
Kaiser network.org, DC - Jan 27, 2006 agenda" that includes help for small businesses that provide health insurance to employees. out how we're going to provide quality affordable health care to