Articles filed under Health
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Horizon Pharma to be added to Nasdaq indexDec 17, 2013 9:02 am - Deerfield-baseed Horizon Pharma has been selected for addition to the Nasdaq Biotechnology Index effective Monday. The Nasdaq Biotechnology Index is designed to track th...
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Sticker shock may await health insurance buyersDec 15, 2013 2:57 pm - The next big challenge for the nation’s health care law may be sticker shock, when consumers find they’re still paying high medical bills after buying low-cost insurance...
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Poll: Health law seen as eroding coverageDec 15, 2013 2:55 pm - WASHINGTON — Americans who already have health insurance are blaming President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul for their rising premiums and deductibles, and overall...
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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...