Articles filed under Health
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Out-of-pocket costs mixed under new health lawDec 15, 2013 2:53 pm - Are requirements of the nation’s new health care law driving up out-of-pocket costs for people buying their own insurance? In some cases, yes. But the law also eliminat...
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Fact Checker: GOP leader’s healthcare claimsDec 15, 2013 5:51 am - “Obamacare does not even address the issue of costs. In fact, it exacerbates the problem and causes 85 percent of Americans who had health insurance and who liked it ext...
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Health-care law’s aggregation rules vex small firmsDec 15, 2013 5:50 am - WASHINGTON — Ellis Winstanley and his twin brother own eight restaurants and two software firms in Austin, Texas. In addition, through a business partnership with their ...
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Amish, immigrants boost number of Illinois' uninsuredDec 14, 2013 7:00 pm - ARTHUR — In many ways, Douglas County resembles most of its neighbors in eastern Illinois: a patch of rich Midwest farmland with a small population and an economy that p...
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Suburban Hispanics attend free concert, get health screenings in Hoffman EstatesDec 14, 2013 3:52 pm - Getting a health screening might not sound like the best way to spend a Saturday afternoon, but families who did so at La Pachanga del Año — or “Party of the Year” — in ...
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New boat may mean safer fishingDec 13, 2013 4:21 pm - ANACORTES, Wash. — Few professions are as deadly as commercial fishing on the Bering Sea. Crews face rogue waves and frigid gales that toss around heavy machines and ca...
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Illinois TV ads push health insuranceDec 12, 2013 6:31 pm - With days to go before an important deadline, the state of Illinois is launching a long-delayed TV advertising blitz on Friday telling people to “enroll now” for insuran...
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Feds try to smooth bumpy health care transitionDec 12, 2013 6:26 pm - WASHINGTON — Anticipating more health care disruptions, the Obama administration Thursday announced a batch of measures intended to help consumers avoid lapses in their ...
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Iowa insurer pokes fun at federal website in adsDec 08, 2013 3:30 pm - DES MOINES, Iowa — The television ads show a series of medical mishaps: a man kicking the wrong leg in a reflex check, a urine sample bottle that won’t open for a frustr...
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Insurance agents feeling left out of ‘Obamacare’Dec 08, 2013 3:00 pm - MIAMI — When insurance agent Kelly Fristoe recently spent 30 minutes helping a client pick a mid-level health plan and the federal marketplace website froze, he called t...