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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
Amerigroup to pay $225 mln Medicaid settlement| | Thu, 14 Aug 2008 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Health insurer Amerigroup Corp will pay $225 million to settle federal and state claims of fraud in a government health insurance program, the company and the U.S. Justice Department said on Thursday. |
US vaccination plan puts health care workers first| | Wed, 23 Jul 2008 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Essential health care workers would be immunized first if a flu pandemic broke out in the United States, the government said on Wednesday. |
U.S. Congress overrides Bush's Medicare veto| | Wed, 16 Jul 2008 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In what likely is the last big showdown between President Bush and congressional Democrats over the popular Medicare health care program, the U.S. Congress Tuesday voted to override his veto of a bill to keep doctors' payments from being slashed. |
U.S. health care is a mess, candidates agree| | Tue, 15 Jul 2008 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Barack Obama and John McCain agree that the U.S. health care system is a mess. They agree Americans spend too much and get too little for it, and they agree that 47 million Americans without health insurance need coverage. |
Bush vetoes Medicare bill, House override expected| | Tue, 15 Jul 2008 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush on Tuesday vetoed legislation that would have cut Medicare reimbursements to insurers and blocked a scheduled pay cut for doctors who treat patients under the government's health program for the elderly. |
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