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Week in Pictures | February 3, 2012
By Michael K. StanleyMitt Romney handily wins the Florida primary; as the U.S. experiences one of the milder winters in recent memory, Eastern Europe freezes; and Facebook prepares to rock the market with its IPO. This and more in this week's Week in Pictures.
February 01, 2012
Religious Group Employers Required to Offer Contraceptive CoverageEmployers whose religious beliefs are the basis of them not offering contraception to employees as a part of their insurance plan may find themselves required to do otherwise by the federal government after August 2013, according to a new rule.
February 01, 2012
U.S. Health Care Spending Keeps Rising (Slowly)U.S. health care spending increased 3.9% in 2010 following record slow growth of 3.8% in 2009; the two slowest rates of growth in the 51-year history of the National Health Expenditure Accounts, the official estimates of total health care spending in the United States issued by the Centers for Medicare...
February 01, 2012
Florida to HHS: The MLR is Just Killing UsThe state of Florida continues to carry the banner of health insurance agents on the medical loss ratio (MLR) issue, asking federal health regulators to review its decision not to make adjustments to the rule, as it has in some smaller states.
February 01, 2012
The MillennialLeaders of the Catholic Church are feeling betrayed and bewildered by the Obama Administration. The problem, as they see it, are new federal rules released last week that require employers to provide all forms of contraception that have been approved by the Food and Drug Administration without co-payments or deductibles...
February 01, 2012
House Votes to Kill LTCI Provision of Affordable Care ActThe U.S. House of Representatives voted 267 to 159 today to repeal the CLASS program, a component of the Affordable Care Act.
February 01, 2012
Hancock to Return to California Individual LTCI MarketBoth the California Partnership policy and the Custom Care III policy will be available starting Feb. 27.
February 01, 2012
Jobs Increase as Health Care Eclipses Factories (Bloomberg)While the economy lost 7.5 million positions during the recession, health care expanded staff, due in large part to an aging population and rising health care spending.