It wasn’t the three jobs she has to work to care for her extended family, or the inability to take a vacation for the last five years. For Eloise Williams of Pontiac, the ultimate indignity came when she found a lump in her breast before she became a full-time teacher at Pontiac Northern High School.
It [...]
BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina last month introduced Blue SpectrumSM, a rebranding of the company’s health insurance plans that also adds less-costly affordable health insurance plans designed for groups and individuals seeking more options.
“With increasing health care costs forcing rising premium prices, some individuals and employers are either dropping their insurance or not picking it [...]
Call it Obamacare or call it Clintoncare. But don’t call it “socialized medicine.”
And don’t think that the health care systems that Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have promised to put into effect if they get into the White House would be anything like the universal health coverage offered in Great Britain or Canada.
Last week, Sen. [...]
There’s a lot of talk lately about how John McCain might just be the luckiest guy in America, what with the Democrats still fighting among each other, the Rev. Wright proving that friends can be worse than enemies, and Republicans swallowing their doubts about their about-to-be nominee and giving their support to a guy many [...]
Last week brought both good news and bad for senior citizens. The good news was that government made a number of amendments to the Budget proposals to rein in inflation and since the old are among the hardest hit by inflation, that was undoubtedly good news.
The bad news was senior citizens will have to wait [...]
When Karen Knee filled out an online application for health insurance four years ago, she scanned her address book and her memory.
She wrote down the names and numbers of her doctors and Business Insurance listed her recent health history — antidepressants after a death in the family, a normal Pap smear and a bladder infection.
She never [...]
government to resolve allegations that it performed and billed for unnecessary dental work on poor children, the U.S. Justice Department announced Wednesday.
Medicaid Dental Center — which operates clinics in Charlotte, Raleigh and Winston-Salem — agreed to settle allegations that it made fraudulent claims for millions to the N.C. Medicaid program.
“These dentists subjected their child patients [...]
The Senate voted 21-3 Thursday in support of a new health insurance program for small businesses called New Hampshire Health First. The legislation now heads to the House.
“This plan makes coverage affordable, not by diluting benefits, but by addressing the underlying drivers of health care spending,” said Sen. Kathleen Sgambati, D-Tilton, who sponsored Senate Bill [...]
Democratic presidential candidates
Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama skirmished over how to deal
with a new regime in Cuba and their approach to expanding health
insurance coverage during a debate last night in Texas.
Obama said he would meet with new Cuban leader Raul Castro
without preconditions, [...]
Led by New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, a phalanx of interests charged Minnetonka-based UnitedHealth and its Ingenix division with denying millions of dollars in claims for millions of Americans when they use doctors outside of their insurer’s network.
Cuomo said Wednesday that he plans to sue UnitedHealth, launch an industrywide investigation into billing procedures and [...]
