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1. U.S. government’s new health insurance website: Healthcare.org
(Health/Healthquest)

... effect, including provisions that bar insurers from discriminating against people with pre-existing conditions and establishing new health insurance exchanges, the marketplaces that make it easier for ...

2. Driver’s licenses harder to get for immigrants
(U.S./Nation)

... Mexico and Tennessee did allow the practice. The efforts generally were backed by police, who wanted to be able to identify drivers they pulled over. Auto insurers also lobbied in favor, arguing that the ...

3. Hospital charges are not consumer friendly to many
(Health/Healthquest)

... master list "GRMS EXT PIECE HOWMED STRYKER." It's $10,290, with no explanation. (It's a prosthetic bone). Insurers don't have to deal with charge masters. They negotiate prices individually with hospitals ...

4. Health insurance rates for individuals seeing double-digit increases
(Health/Healthquest)

... or to one from a different insurer. As a result of those who switched, the average increase for all respondents was 13 percent. More than half said they thought it would be difficult to switch insurers, ...

5. Changes on health benefits receive mixed reviews
(Health/Healthquest)

BY PHIL GALEWITZ AND MARY AGNES CAREY KAISER HEALTH NEWS Business groups gave mixed reviews Monday to new Obama administration rules limiting how much employers and insurers can change their health ...

6. New Jerseyans urged to file claims for money they may have lost in Tenn. health insurance scam
(Money/Economy)

... Trade Association LLC, Smart Data Solutions LLC and Serve America Assurance, to file unresolved claims immediately through the Tennessee Department of Commerce and Insurance, which has closed the insurers ...

7. Now That’s Funny: Blue Cross CEO made $8.7 million last year
(Life/Style)

... managed care first came along, and the whole idea was that insurers would be able to bring down the outrageous costs which doctors and hospitals were charging for their services? Well, we'll just use ...

8. Health care reform lawsuit has states hedging
(U.S./Nation)

... expanding Medicaid access and tightening regulation of insurers. Similar scenarios are playing out across the country, where every state that's actively challenging the law is at the same time taking ...

9. Shocked by $9M Horizon CEO salary? N.J. Chiropractors Association has own Horizon horror stories
(Opinion/Commentary)

... claims filed under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) against 22 leading Blue Cross Blue Shield insurers across the country, including Horizon. The action was filed by a number ...

10. Christie Whitman: Finger-pointing won’t stop oil from leaking in Gulf or fix Wall Street
(Opinion/Commentary)

...  The problem with this tendency to cast blame is that it allows us to exculpate ourselves from personal responsibility. By blaming Wall Street, the automakers, insurers and other companies are seemingly ...

11. Health care law improves benefits for pregnant women and new mothers
(Health/Healthquest)

... coverage and support services to keep mothers and babies healthy are often seriously deficient. Some private insurers, for example, treat pregnancy as a preexisting condition and charge pregnant women ...

12. New health law: An explanation of benefits
(Health/Healthquest)

... make it easier for you to get coverage. Health insurers will be barred from rejecting applicants based on health status in 2014. Until the new exchanges are up and running in 2014, the law created temporary ...

13. Opposition to value added tax, not ObamaCare, is best N.J. GOP congressional election issue
(Opinion/Commentary)

... this week in a column written by him for the website Politico.com. Menendez hailed ObamaCare for providing "many long-overdue benefits, including preventing insurers from denying coverage because of pre-existing ...

14. N.J. appeals court sends Gloucester County public records case back to trial court
(N.J./State)

... analyze anything. "It is the documents, themselves, that have been requested, and their retrieval requires a search, not research," Payne wrote. As for Gloucester's argument that the county's insurers ...

15. Bill to promote growth of insurance industry in New Jersey to be introduced
(Money/Economy)

... and Assemblymen Gary Schaer (D-Passaic and Denise (R-Somerset) would promote job creation by providing incentives to the most financially sound reinsurers to do business in New Jersey. The proposed bill ...

16. Christie's Red Tape Review panel recommends elimination or change of 16 ways state government operates
(N.J./State)

... possible regulations for consumer notification as to the age of tires. Nonrenewal and Cancellation of Private Passenger Auto Insurance. This proposal revises the nonrenewal process for automobile insurers ...

17. Insurance industry not shy about investing in fast food
(Money/Economy)

New Jersey-based Prudential Financial owns $197 million in McDonald's stock BY JOE TYRRELL NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM Some major insurers, including Newark-based Prudential, have invested heavily in fast-food ...

18. Same old, same old...
(Comments/Unsorted comments)

... tax on insurers of employer-sponsored health plans that cost more than $10,200 annually for individual coverage, or $27,500 annually for family coverage. Health Care industry fees. There are a number ...

19. Guide to health care reform changes
(Health/Healthquest)

...  A: If you have a medical condition, the law will make it easier for you to get coverage; insurers will be barred from rejecting applicants based on health status once the exchanges are operating in ...

20. health care take over!!
(Comments/Unsorted comments)

... by Congress does not require insurers to cover children with expensive pre-existing medical conditions. Immediately, the White House got an assurance from the insurers. After demonizing them for months ...