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GAO Finds Support For Basic Health Benefits Effort
By Staff WriterHealth policy experts disagree about how to expand access to health coverage, but many agree that the federal government should ensure that all Americans have ...
September 07, 2007
Groups Eye Insurer Proposal For Taking On Settlement FirmsTrade groups say they want to hear more about a life insurer's efforts to use a new policy loan program to create an option for ...
September 07, 2007
Milliman Analyzes Effects Of Coverage Access InitiativesAmerica's Health Insurance Plans has commissioned a review of 8 state efforts to create "guarantee issue" and "community rating" systems.The review, by analysts at Milliman ...
September 07, 2007
Panel To Review Proposed MandatesThe Virginia Special Advisory Commission on Mandated Health Insurance Benefits will meet at 2 p.m. Sept. 20 in Richmond, Va., to consider proposed benefits mandates.The ...
September 07, 2007
Tax Policy Experts Tell History Of Estate TaxesInternal Revenue Service staffers explain how the United States has been handling death taxes since 1862 in the latest IRS Statistics of Income Bulletin.In 1864, ...
September 07, 2007
Symetra Works With Seahawks To Honor TeachersA life insurer is joining with a football team to try to improve education in its community.Symetra Life Insurance Company, Bellevue, Wash., has sponsored the ...
September 06, 2007
CBO Finds Growing Link Between Longevity And IncomeU.S. residents who earn high incomes over many years may face much more longevity risk than lower-income people face.Julian Cristia, an analyst at the Congressional ...
September 06, 2007
Settlement Puts Iowa In Charge Of Multistate Oversight ProgramA 37-jurisdiction settlement agreement may free a large managed care company from the traditional state-by-state market examination process.The UnitedHealthcare insurance and managed care units of ...