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Merck & Co., the third-largest U.S. drugmaker, will pay more than $649 million to settle federal and state claims that it underpaid Medicaid rebates and gave incentives to doctors to prescribe the company's ...
Posted by healthinsurance on February 7th, 2008
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Tuesday vowed to press on with legislation to provide health insurance to his state's uninsured, a day after a universal health care bill he backed died in a Senate committee.
"I'm as determined as ever," Schwarzenegger said.
Lawmakers who voted against the bill missed a golden opportunity for California to demonstrate to the rest of the United States how to establish a universal health care system, Schwarzenegger said in a speech to the press club of the state capital of Sacramento.
"The issue is not going to go away," he said.
The Republican governor and Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez had brokered a bill that would have provided Californians without medical insurance some level of coverage by requiring they obtain it individually or through employers or a state program.
The Democrat-led Assembly had endorsed the legislation but on Monday the health committee of the Democrat-led Senate voted it down 7-1.
Top Democrats in the Senate had joined with the chamber's minority Republicans in opposition to the legislation's complexity and projected cost, expected to be more than $14 billion to help establish a fund to subsidize medical insurance for more than 5 million uninsured Californians.
The fund would have relied on tobacco taxes and fees on employers and hospitals. Opposition to the bill grew after a report last week by the state's budget watchdog warned the insurance scheme could cost the already cash-strapped state much more than supporters claimed.
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Posted by Search for "health insurance" on February 7th, 2008
Managed care provider Aetna Inc. said Thursday that its fourth-quarter profit rose 3 percent from membership growth, premium and fee rate increases and continued cost cuts.
Posted by Search for "health insurance" on February 7th, 2008
The alleged overcharges, dating back to the mid-1990s, involved Medicaid programs in all but one state and the District of Colombia, as well as federal health insurance programs at agencies including the Public ...
Posted by Search for "health insurance" on February 7th, 2008
Net income grew to $448.4 million, or 87 cents a share, from $434.1 million, or 80 cents a share, a year earlier.
Posted by Search for "health insurance" on February 7th, 2008
Syntel, Inc. has announced it is delaying the release of its fourth quarter financial results, originally scheduled for distribution on Friday, February 8, 2008.
Posted by Search for "health insurance" on February 7th, 2008
Four Republican candidates for governor preached personal responsibility and private insurance solutions to reduce health care costs and put more North Carolina citizens on insurance rolls.
Posted by Search for "health insurance" on February 7th, 2008
John Hitchcock is not new to the stage, but he is new to the Far Off Broadway Players.
