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Insurance Regulation Expert Calls for Freeze of Health Rates Until ‘Prior Approval’ Regulation Is Adopted

Carrot-And-Stick Health Plans Aim To Cut Costs
Workers at a Portland, Ore., steel mill soon will be able to pick a new type of health insurance: one with financial rewards to use proven treatments and disincentives to use less-effective surgeries and diagnostic tests.

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Obama launches attack on health insurance companies

California Assembly hearing to look at rescinded health insurance issue
Just a small fraction of the thousands of consumers whose health coverage was unfairly revoked by their insurers have benefited from state-brokered settlements with insurance companies, according to an Assembly report made public Tuesday.

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Missouri House seeks to block health insurance mandate

Women pay more, face hurdles finding insurance
While shopping for health insurance last year, 26-year-old Hillary McCormack was rejected because she had, for two months in 2007, taken a fertility drug.

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State insurance program draws wide interest
HAMMOND — Isiah Lockett, 47, has pain in his hips, legs and back, but hasn’t seen a doctor. After losing his job three years ago, he can’t afford health insurance. “I can’t get anybody to look at me because I don’t have health insurance,” said the East Chicago resident. Lockett was among 60 people who attended an information meeting Saturday in Hammond to learn more about the Healthy Indiana …

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