News tagged with private plans
Health overhaul draws groups' competing demands
May 10, 2009 |
not rated yet |
0
(AP) -- Patients and doctors. Small businesses and multinationals. Retirees, workers and insurance companies.
Extra payments to Medicare Advantage plans to total $11.4 billion in 2009
May 04, 2009 |
not rated yet |
0
Private Medicare Advantage (MA) plans will be paid $11.4 billion more in 2009 than what the same beneficiaries would have cost in the traditional Medicare fee-for-service program, according to a new report released today ...
White House seeks health plan compromise
Apr 15, 2009 |
not rated yet |
0
New health reform strategy would insure everyone, improve health and slow spending growth
Feb 19, 2009 |
3 / 5 (1) |
0
A comprehensive set of insurance, payment, and system reforms could guarantee affordable health insurance coverage, improve health outcomes, and slow the growth of health spending by $3 trillion by the end of the next decade, ...
Search results for private plans
Sicker patients socked with higher copays
Apr 15, 2008 |
5 / 5 (1) |
1
Healthcare analysts said U.S. health insurers are rapidly adopting a new pricing system that is boosting copays for expensive prescription drugs.
Wis. could be first to require cochlear implants
Apr 23, 2009 |
4 / 5 (1) |
0
(AP) -- Wisconsin could become the first state requiring private insurance companies to cover cochlear implants for children with severe hearing problems. The state Legislature passed a bill Thursday requiring private health ...
Private and public insurance choices could help pay for national health care reform
Jul 16, 2009 |
2.3 / 5 (3) |
1
As lawmakers debate how to pay for an overhaul of the nation's health care system, a new report from The Commonwealth Fund projects that including both private and public insurance choices in a new insurance exchange would ...
Sources: Senators weigh 3 government health plans
May 09, 2009 |
2 / 5 (5) |
3
(AP) -- Senators are considering three different designs for a new government health insurance plan that middle-income Americans could buy into for the first time, congressional officials said Friday. Officials ...
Britain to outlaw most private organ transplants
Jul 31, 2009 |
4 / 5 (1) |
1
(AP) -- The British government said Friday that it plans to ban private organ transplants from dead donors to allay fears that prospective recipients can buy their way to the front of the line.
'Credit Crunch' Will Hit Retirees in Unequal Ways
Oct 09, 2008 |
3.7 / 5 (6) |
0
(PhysOrg.com) -- How severely retirees will be affected by the continuing financial crisis and subsequent "credit crunch" depends to a considerable extent on the kinds of retirement plans they rely on for retirement income, ...
Private exchange to aid startups seeking more cash
Sep 02, 2009 |
5 / 5 (1) |
0
(AP) -- Since June, a Web site called SharesPost has been helping a small pool of qualified buyers and sellers trade shares in fast-growing startups that have not yet gone public. Now, the private stock exchange is hoping ...
Australia announces $30 bln broadband plan
Apr 07, 2009 |
not rated yet |
0
Australia announced plans to build a 30 billion US dollar broadband network, its biggest infrastructure project ever, opting to retain government control rather than contract out the deal.
Simmons plans to file for bankruptcy protection
Sep 25, 2009 |
not rated yet |
0
(AP) -- Simmons Co., the maker of Beautyrest mattresses, said Friday that it plans to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in a move that will put new owners in charge of the bedding unit and significantly lower the ...
SKorea to train 3,000 'cyber sheriffs': report
Sep 13, 2009 |
not rated yet |
0
South Korea plans to train 3,000 "cyber sheriffs" by next year to protect businesses after a spate of attacks on state and private websites, a report said Sunday.
List of search results for private plans
