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Employer-Sponsored Coverage
The most common way that Americans get health insurance coverage is through their employer. Federal and state laws have provided employees numerous consumer protections.
Individual Health Insurance
Individual health insurance policies may be an option for people who do not have access to job-based coverage. Some states offer individual coverage to all persons regardless of their health status.
Health Care News
States get extra Medicaid aid but two want more| | Fri, 19 Feb 2010 NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. states will get an extra $4.3 billion to pay for drugs for elderly or disabled people covered by Medicaid and Medicare, but at least two of the states with the biggest health plans said they need more cash. |
Call for clean slate on health reform divides U.S.| | Thu, 11 Feb 2010 DALLAS (Reuters) - Americans are deeply divided over demands by U.S. Republicans that bills backed by President Barack Obama to reform the $2.5 trillion health system be scrapped and the whole process be started again from scratch. |
Study shows how Medicare rewards MDs for overuse| | Mon, 08 Feb 2010 CHICAGO (Reuters) - Medicare's move in 2005 to pay doctors to do bladder cancer surgery in their offices rather than in hospitals dramatically raised the number of procedures and overall health costs, U.S. researchers said on Monday. |
Medicare cuts damage cancer care, group finds| | Thu, 04 Feb 2010 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Changes to Medicare, the federal health plan for the elderly, may be damaging important aspects of cancer care in the United States, according to a study released on Thursday. |
Obama's U.S. budget presses ahead on health reform| | Mon, 01 Feb 2010 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - With plans to pass sweeping healthcare reform stalled in Congress, the White House's budget proposal for next fiscal year appears to count on some sort of overhaul becoming law. |
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