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U.S. acts to ease costs of private Medicare plans
Senator investigates health insurers' out-of-network rate practices
Minneapolis clinic sees a sickly economic toll
Access to COBRA healthcare subsidy may expand in California
Blue Cross, Connecticut hospital talks break down
March 30, 2009
More support for healthcare fix, but funding coverage still sticking point
Lawmakers consider taxes on healthcare benefits
New York state leaders outline budget deal
A lesson on healthcare from Massachusetts
March 27, 2009
Obama favors building on current healthcare plan
Florida gets $363 million in Medicaid funds
Missouri governor looks to Senate for healthcare plan
March 26, 2009
$764 million in Massachusetts stimulus funding to go to healthcare services
Doctors who prescribe more activity want insurers to offer more coverage
Majority Leader Harry Reid open to fast-tracking health overhaul
Tentative deal reported on cuts to New York healthcare spending
March 25, 2009
A health plan for all and the concerns it raises
Insurers offer to soften a key rate-setting policy
Colorado healthcare plan gains
Fewer than 1,000 enroll in Cover Florida
Many health insurance rates going up this year in Washington state
Report: Texas health insurance costs have risen 7 times faster than incomes
March 24, 2009
Healthcare battle set to focus on public plan
Blue Cross Official: Medicare Advantage Cuts Will Increase Premiums, Force Millions Out of Program
Health insurance squeezes America's workers
White House official: Economy adds urgency to health reform
Few individual health policies cover maternity
March 23, 2009
Blumenthal Spearheads Health IT Reform
Crunch time for fixing healthcare
Michigan Blues offer agents incentive to sign up healthier members
Stimulus gives relief to unemployed workers paying for COBRA health insurance
March 20, 2009
House Democrats set September deadline for healthcare compromise
Five million Floridians uninsured for at least a month in 2007, 2008
Tenet says Aetna will use 400 doctors in networks
Dire warnings as Georgia House OKs budget
Bristol (CT) Hospital stops accepting United Healthcare insurance
Tennessee industry leaders offer ideas to cut costs, improve access
Iowa Senate approves healthcare bill
Grassley urges primary healthcare
March 19, 2009
Bill would make insurers cover pre-existing conditions
Two unions, once bitter rivals, will now work together
Bill advances to study single-payer healthcare in Colorado
Computer glitch blamed for Wisconsin Medicare payment error
Medicare rules on equipment worry patients
March 18, 2009
Team effort in the House to overhaul healthcare
Online records get patients involved in care
Obama's traveling forum on healthcare visits Vermont
March 17, 2009
Texas Medicaid criticized on kids' care
March 16, 2009
Stimulus Dollars Go to Medicaid, Health Clinics
Health insurance industry works on image makeover
Budget woes cut healthcare for illegal immigrants
Lawmaker wants Dallas-Fort Worth out of troubled healthcare program
Democrats, GOP draw battle lines on healthcare plan
Massachusetts faces costs of big healthcare plan
March 13, 2009
Employers see less health coverage in the next decade
First White House health forum kicks off in Michigan
Massachusetts wins legal challenge to individual mandate
Low-cost New York City doctor told to increase fees
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois says membership is slipping for first time in 25 years
March 12, 2009
Report: U.S. on short end of healthcare 'value gap'
Universal healthcare called San Francisco's future
Contra Costa County, CA, doctors worried over budget
Massachusetts may not boost healthcare premiums
Workers' health benefits eyed for taxation
March 11, 2009
California HMOs required to cover some autism therapies
UAW awaiting deal with GM on healthcare
March 10, 2009
UAW ratifies contract with Ford
Report: WellPoint PBM on the block
Healthy San Francisco wins another court round
Healthcare advocates back Medicaid expansion
Commentary: Insurers' commitment to healthcare reform is only skin-deep
March 9, 2009
Analysis: Obama Reforms Require Sacrifice
Boost to health coverage planned in Massachusetts
Maryland bills would increase accountability and oversight of insurers
March 6, 2009
Florida governor touts affordable health insurance plan
March 5, 2009
In health plan, industry sees good business
Proposal would require Maryland residents to have insurance
Healthcare amendment defeated by North Dakota House
Iowa health expansion clears committee
Summit to study road ahead on healthcare
March 4, 2009
Oklahoma House passes healthcare bill
Baucus promises healthcare action
Obama's plans for sharp cuts send health insurers reeling
March 3, 2009
On health, President Obama takes team approach
Bill would limit funding for Florida's Medicaid pilot
March 2, 2009
Kansas governor accepts offer as health secretary
Obama's health plan, ambitious in any economy, is tougher in this one
Blue Cross of Texas president urges doctors, insurers to work together on costs
Jobless, or about to be, and rushing to use medical benefits
Adding up Obama's plan to save $300 billion in Medicare, Medicaid
Health insurers, poised for round two of health reform