| Health insurance refunds on the way for Arizonans | | Sun, May 27, 2012 | Healthcare | | PHOENIX (AP) -- Arizona consumers and businesses reportedly can expect to collect more than $36 million in refunds this summer from health-insurance companies under new provisions of the nation's health-care law. Tags: Arizona, Pinal County, Health Insurance refunds, Affordable Care Act | - Share It!
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| -Arizona middle-class struggling, doing without health care | | Sun, Jul 31, 2011 | Healthcare | | Hard times and economic uncertainty not only hit the checking and savings accounts.They overwhelm the mind and harm the body.Dwindling job security, reduced home values and higher personal health costs have brought untold stress into many middle-class lives. Tags: Arizona, Health care, Jobs, Health insurance | - Share It!
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| Comments ran 2-to-1 against Ariz. insurance bill | | Sat, Apr 30, 2011 | AZ Legislature | | Casa Grande DispatchBy PAUL DAVENPORTAssociated PressPHOENIX (AP) -- Gov. Jan Brewer's office says recent public comments received about a health insurance bill that she vetoed Thursday ran more than 2-to-1 against the measure Tags: Arizona, Jan Brewer, Health Insurance | - Share It!
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| US OKs Arizona's process to freeze Medicaid unit | | Sat, Apr 30, 2011 | Healthcare | | Tri Valley CentralBy PAUL DAVENPORTAssociated PressPHOENIX (AP) -- Arizona will start implementing Gov. Jan Brewer's plan to reduce Medicaid enrollment to help balance the state budget after receiving federal clearance Friday for the processes the state will use, officials said. Tags: Arizona, Jan Brewer, Health Insurance | - Share It!
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| Lawmakers in most states have little control over Health care premiums | | Thu, Aug 12, 2010 | Healthcare | | Los Angeles TimesBy Noam N. Levey As Americans struggle with double-digit hikes in their health insurance bills, millions are coming up against a hard reality: The state regulators who are supposed to protect them can often do little to control what insurers are charging.In many states, it is the insurance industry Read More Tags: Health insurance reform, Insurance industry, Government oversite | - Share It!
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| Judge blocks Arizona law on domestic-partner benefits | | Sat, Jul 24, 2010 | Civil Rights | | Arizona RepublicBy Casey Newton A federal judge has blocked Arizona from denying family health insurance to employees' same-sex partners, saying the state violated the equal-protection clause of the U.S. Constitution.U.S. District Judge John Sedwick granted a temporary injunction that will prevent the state from enacting House Bill 2013, a 2009 law Read More Tags: HB2013, Family health insurance, Same-sex partners | - Share It!
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| 45,000 excess deaths annually linked to lack of health insurance: study September 17th, 2009 | | Fri, Sep 18, 2009 | Healthcare | | Physorg.comA study published online today estimates nearly 45,000 annual deaths are associated with lack of health insurance. That figure is about two and a half times higher than an estimate from the Institute of Medicine (IOM) in 2002.The new study, "Health Insurance and Mortality in U.S. Adults," appears in today's Read More Tags: Health insurance, American Journal of Public Health | - Share It!
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| Dems' health-care bus hits the Valley | | Thu, Aug 27, 2009 | Healthcare | | Arizona RepublicBy Dan NowickiA bus sporting the familiar red, white and blue logo of President Barack Obama's campaign debuted in central Phoenix on Wednesday evening on the vanguard of a Democratic counteroffensive in support of health-care reform.Hundreds of supporters rallied at one of the earliest stops on the Democratic National Read More Tags: Organizing for America, Kyrsten Sinema, Barack Obama, Health Insurance reform, Public option | - Share It!
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| Dying for affordable healthcare — the uninsured speak | | Sun, Aug 23, 2009 | Healthcare | | GuardianBy Ed Pilkington, Kansas CityIn a week of claim and counter-claim about the merits of healthcare provision in the US and UK, Ed Pilkington travelled to Quindaro, Kansas, to see how the poorest surviveIn the furious debate gripping America over the future of its health system, one voice has been Read More Tags: Health insurance reform, Doctors, Poverty, Kansas, Working poor | - Share It!
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| The Uninsured | | Sun, Aug 23, 2009 | Healthcare | | New York Times EditorialOne of the major goals of health care reform is to cover the vast numbers of uninsured. But how vast, really, is that pool of people? Who are they? And how important is it to cover all or most of them?Critics play down the seriousness of the Read More Tags: Health insurance reform, Health care reform | - Share It!
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