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PCHS Sees $13,302 Savings in Its Insurance Premiums (Du Quoin Evening Call) - 179 weeks ago

Pinckneyville's District 101 will realize a total savings of $13,302 in its property, liability and blanket insurance premiums, combined with a decrease in workman's comp premiums by $1,308 compared to last year.

Workers will spend more on health care (Tennessean) - 179 weeks ago

National health-care costs are rising at the slowest pace this decade, but they're still going up fast enough to offset a portion of many people's pay raises in the coming year, according to projections by one of the nation's largest benefits consultants.

Labour & Employment (Mondaq) - 179 weeks ago

United States: . . . .With Liberty And Health Care For All More than 10 years after President Clinton's health care plan failed to win Congressional approval and subsequent federal inaction, state legislatures and municipal governments across the country are stepping forward to regulate health care.

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois Announces New Options for Medicare Part D Beneficiaries (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance) - 179 weeks ago

CHICAGO----Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois announced today that it will offer Medicare beneficiaries several new options for Medicare Part D prescription drug plans, including a new plan that provides benefits in the coverage gap, or "doughnut hole."

Women behaving badly (Chicago Flame) - 179 weeks ago

More news this week confirmed that to be poor and female in the United States means that your womb is public enemy No. 1. Don't get pregnant, but don't try to prevent pregnancy either. And abortion? You're on your own. Wait, why, exactly, are you having sex in the first place? The Sun-Times reported Thursday that Amerigroup Illinois, a Chicago-based insurance company, is in federal court facing

Universal American Financial Corp. to Expand Private Fee-for-Service Medicare Plans in over 2,600 Counties across 35 (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance) - 179 weeks ago

RYE BROOK, N.Y.----Universal American Financial Corp. announced today that it has expanded its service area for Medicare Private Fee-For-Service plans for 2007. Universal American, through its insurance subsidiaries American Progressive Life and Health Insurance Company of New York and Pyramid Life Insurance Company, will offer four Today's Options plans in each of the 2,600 counties in a total

Funding retirees' future health benefits (The News Journal) - 179 weeks ago

SAN FRANCISCO -- The bill is coming due for years of retirement benefits given to the nation's public employees, and it's a stunner: hundreds of billions of dollars over the next three decades.

Workers' care falls to state (Chicago Tribune) - 180 weeks ago

Uninsured employees' medical bills costly to Illinois, report finds Hundreds of thousands of low-wage workers in Illinois are enrolled in public health programs, adding hundreds of millions of dollars in medical costs to the state budget, according to a new report.

Healthy Lifestyles Cooperative of Brown County Selects Destiny Health as Insurance Provider (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance) - 180 weeks ago

The Healthy Lifestyles Cooperative of Brown County, a newly-formed health insurance organization with more than 230 member companies, announced it has selected Destiny Health, a pioneer of the consumer-directed health care model, as its insurance plan provider.

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois Offers Tips for Choosing a Health Plan During Open Enrollment (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance) - 180 weeks ago

This fall, two million Illinois residents will make a potentially complex and difficult choice when they select health insurance coverage for themselves and their family members during open enrollment.