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Wellmark makes adjustment to health insurance age rule

Budget office: 4 mln likely to pay health fine
About four 4 million people in the United States will be fined for failing to buy health insurance when the health overhaul law is fully in force in 2016, the Congressional Budget Office forecast on Thursday.

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Democrats seek greater control over health insurance rates
Legislation would allow federal regulators to step in to stop premium increases when state agencies fall short. Congressional Democrats have begun pushing legislation giving government regulators greater authority to block big increases in health insurance premiums, kicking off what is expected to be a years-long process of revising and expanding their major healthcare overhaul.

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Wellmark makes adjustment to health insurance age rule
Iowa’s largest health insurer is loosening rules to let young adults stay on their parents’ health insurance plans a bit longer, but the change will affect a relatively small number of people.

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House Democrats Approve Health-Care Reform Bill

Health care reform law is only half a loaf
Democrats have now cemented the idea of expanded health care insurance coverage in US politics. The GOP erred on that point. But both parties must now get medical-cost containment done right.

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Health care companies pull stock market higher
Health stocks lifted the market Monday following House approval of the bill that would extend insurance to millions. The Dow Jones industrial average rose about 45 points in afternoon trading.

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House Democrats Approve Health-Care Reform Bill
SUNDAY, March 21 (HealthDay News) — After a year of fierce partisan debate, the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives late Sunday night passed the landmark $940 billion health-care reform bill, which would extend health insurance coverage to 32 million uninsured Americans, prevent insurance companies from denying coverage to people with preexisting medical conditions and cut the federal …

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House Democrats defend plan to pass health care

Late-innings hardball in health care push
With time and tempers short, everyone’s playing hardball in the drive to pass — or stop — President Barack Obama’s massive health care legislation by the weekend.

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Obama tries to personalize the health care bill
STRONGSVILLE, Ohio — Declaring that “every argument has been made” on his health care overhaul, President Obama sought to seal the deal with Congress and the American people Monday by focusing on a single patient: a self-employed cleaning woman who dropped her costly insurance plan and just discovered she has leukemia.

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House Democrats defend plan to pass health care
Democrats defended plans to push massive health care legislation through the House without a direct vote and Republicans assailed the strategy Tuesday, as both parties fenced ferociously over the health overhaul end game.

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