Topic: Health Insurance

DesertSun Articles

  1. Retirees lag in preparing for their health care costs

    • May 13, 2012
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    '' And they do not even have health insurance. Many pre-retirees wrongly assume that when they reach 65 and can apply for Medicare it will cover most of their health care...

  2. Insurers to rebate $1.3B this year under health care law

    • Apr 27, 2012
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    WASHINGTON -- More than 3million health insurance ... Although many large employer plans already meet that standard, it's the first time the government has imposed such a requirement on the entire health insurance ... with state health insurance ...

  3. Desert AIDS Project: Patient data was stolen

    • May 01, 2012
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    '' There were no Social Security numbers, driver's license numbers, health insurance ... Letters were sent out to all clients in compliance with federal Health Insurance Portability...

  4. Valley Voice: Insurance firms should cover rehab programs

    • Apr 16, 2012
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    by their health insurance ... For far too long, health insurance companies... most group health insurance plans to include coverage for addiction treatment. The only prerequisite is...

  5. Letter: Sheriff needs more money

    • Apr 19, 2012
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    What I ca not appreciate is elected officials and sheriff administration's inability or unwillingness to mitigate escalating salaries, health insurance and pension requirements...

  6. Letters to the Editor on health care

    • Apr 03, 2012
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    of the health insurance ... Are we to become a country where individuals without health insurance ... Are we really ready to withhold treatment from those who ca not afford health insurance ...

  7. Letter: Be grateful for a nation that cares

    • Mar 28, 2012
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    Is the government's concern for the health of Americans imbedded in its law that forces all Americans to buy health insurance ... If she and her husband lost their jobs, home and health insurance ...

  8. Letter: There's no mandate to own a car

    • Apr 04, 2012
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    In his Monday letter, Jack Newby, compares the health insurance mandate to the auto insurance mandate. He is correct. The law'' mandates'' that everyone have automobile...

  9. Conservative Supreme Court justices question insurance mandate

    • Mar 27, 2012
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    not have health insurance ... Clement acknowledged that a system of national health insurance ... '' The argument there is that the people were left to decide whether to buy health insurance ...