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Consumer Action, Humana Unveil Family Health Budget
Humana and Consumer Action today unveiled the Family Health Budget - a novel online resource for all Americans, designed to help families throughout the nation successfully plan for and manage their health care expenses. Developed… -
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Fraud Bingo Game
Consumer Action's Fraud Bingo is a fun activity you can use in your trainings. -
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HMOs
HMOs (health maintenance organizations) are a form of managed care, a system of health care insurance designed to keep medical costs in check by coordinating covered individuals’ medical needs. HMOs provide a full range of… -
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Health plan information
While reading the materials your HMO provides may not be high on your list of entertainment, an hour or two spent reviewing these documents is crucial. You need to understand what your plan covers -… -
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Sick
According to the new book “Sick” by Jonathan Cohn, America’s health care system is unraveling. Every day, millions of hard-working people struggle to find affordable medical treatment for themselves and their families and are unable… -
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No insurance, poor health
The case for providing health coverage for all Americans got even more compelling in the past week when two new studies presented the most comprehensive evidence yet that the lack of health insurance is seriously… -
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Gouging women on health insurance
As tens of thousands of workers lose their jobs — and their group health insurance — in a worsening economy, they will have to scramble to find affordable insurance policies in the open market. The… -
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Employer-based health plans no longer work
It seems clear that change is coming to the U.S. healthcare system. President-elect Barack Obama wants it. Congress wants it. Even the insurance industry says the time is ripe to do things differently. But not… -
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Why tie health insurance to a job?
(Dr. Emanuel, an oncologist and chairman of the department of bioethics at the National Institutes of Health, is author of “Healthcare, Guaranteed” (Public Affairs, 2008). Wyden, a Democrat, is a U.S. senator from Oregon and… -
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Health care showdown
America’s political scene has changed immensely since the last time a Democratic president tried to reform health care. So has the health care picture: with costs soaring and insurance dwindling, nobody can now say with… -
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Last-resort health coverage barely covers
The state’s Major Risk Medical Insurance Program is meant to serve as a last resort for the up to 400,000 Californians who have been rejected for health coverage by private insurers because of medical problems.… -
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Single Payer Action
Single Payer Action is a national non-profit founded by individuals to push for universal health care. -
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Prescription for Real Health Care Reform
Conversations on how to reform healthcare are long-standing and varied. But healthcare costs have soared, health insurance companies get richer and even those who pay dearly for health insurance frequently find that their policies don’t… -
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Organ donors risk denial of health insurance
Eight years ago, Los Angeles resident Patricia Abdullah decided to donate a kidney to an acquaintance. She calls it one of the proudest moments of her life. Last year, Abdullah, 61, lost her job with… -
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Curbing runaway health inflation
This year’s effort to reform health care revolves around two powerful, conflicting imperatives. One is to cover tens of millions of uninsured Americans. The other is to absorb the enormous cost of that plan —… -
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The uninsured
One 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… -
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Healthcare: Pay for it now, or pay more later
Sen. Joe Lieberman is wrong. He said the other day that we should reconsider healthcare reform until we can get our economic house in order. “There’s no reason we have to do it all now,”… -
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Majority rule on health reform
The talk in Washington is that Senate Democrats are preparing to push through health care reforms using parliamentary procedures that will allow a simple majority to prevail in their chamber, as it does in the… -
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Elder Fraud : Preventing Senior Scams - Lesson Plan
This updated packet provides guidance for teachers and team leaders. The packet contains a detailed curriculum, classroom activities and take home worksheets. (Note: It is only available as a PDF file.) -
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Popular benefit of health-care law excludes military families
By the time Congress passed the national health-care overhaul, anxiety about it was so widespread that Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates issued a statement reassuring military families. The legislation, Gates said, “will not negatively impact… -
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Talk to relatives about caregiving before they need it
Before my grandfather died of cancer, I helped my grandmother care for him in their home. For more than a decade, I managed health care and other financial issues for my disabled brother until his… -
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Doctors tack on fees for patients
A growing number of doctors across the country are boosting revenue by asking patients to pay new fees for services they say insurance doesn’t cover, insurance and physicians’ groups say. The extra payments include no-show… -
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Bringing comparison shopping to the doctor’s office
Americans comparison-shop for items as small as groceries and as big as cars. But they rarely compare prices on their health care. When a doctor recommends a test or a procedure, most patients simply go… -
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Obama presses Congress to avoid Medicare pay cuts
President Obama on Saturday implored Congress to provide more aid to states and cities to blunt “the devastating economic impact of budget cuts” by local governments that imperil the jobs of teachers, the police,… -
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Federal website coming to help people shop for health insurance
Wish finding health insurance were as easy as shopping for an airline ticket? A federal government website that starts July 1 takes a step in that direction. The site, for the first time, will give…
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