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Health reform plans, pricing released in Calif.
Californians are finally getting to see what "Obamacare" means for them. President Barack Obama's health care overhaul made a big leap Thursday when California's health insurance exchange announced the plans and the prices that will be offered to those buying individual coverage. Some of the state's largest individual health insurers, ...
Column: Dustups have government's role in common
A big brother you can trust to keep you safe, give you a hand and do right by you? Or a big brother who snoops, lies and bullies you in all corners of your life? There's a common thread running through a series of controversies dogging President Barack Obama: the ...
Businesses may get sticker shock on health care
Small business owners may be experiencing sticker shock now that insurers are revealing the rates they want to charge under the new health care law. So far, in Rhode Island, insurers are requesting premium increases of up to 14 percent for small business coverage when the Affordable Care Act is ...
Former Hamilton County commissioner to run for attorney general
Ohio Democrats have their first statewide candidate for 2014. David Pepper of Cincinnati announced Monday he will challenge Republican Attorney General Mike DeWine for his position. Pepper, a former Hamilton County commissioner and Cincinnati city councilman, ran unsuccessfully against David Yost for Ohio auditor in 2010. Pepper had about $6,000 ...
House GOP make major changes to Gov. Kasich’s budget plan
Ohio House Republicans want to drastically change Gov. John Kasich’s state budget proposal and plan to scrap his expansion of Medicaid, substitute a 7 percent income tax cut for his proposed 20 percent break, and eliminate plans to hike taxes paid by oil and gas exploration companies.House Speaker William Batchelder, ...
Ohio House set to strip Medicaid expansion from Kasich budget
By Ann Sanner and Julie Carr Smyth Associated Press COLUMBUS - A state house committee will unveil its version of the Ohio two-year budget on Tuesday, and Gov. John Kasich’s plans to expand Medicaid under the federal health law won’t be included, The Associated Press has learned. A person with ...
Some states balk at enforcing health law’s insurance protections
Florida regulators won’t penalize insurance companies that violate new health law consumer protections that take effect in January but will report them to the federal government, according to an agreement between the state and federal officials. Citing lack of money and legal authority, Pennsylvania’s top insurance regulator hasn’t decided whether his agency can ...
McCullough-Hyde weighs decision on future independence
Looking back, 2012 can be referred to as a transition year for McCullough-Hyde Memorial Hospital, said hospital Chief Executive Officer Bryan Hehemann. “We were more in a ‘sizing up the future’ and more internal analysis mode than major action mode. We were still studying and reflecting on the question of ...
Kasich budget plan gets mixed reviews, poll finds
Gov. John Kasich’s biggest plans in his two-year state budget proposal are getting mixed reviews from Ohio voters, according to a poll released Friday by Quinnipiac University. Voters say 48 percent to 42 percent that cutting the income tax and collecting more revenue from the sales tax is a bad ...
Taxes, Medicaid, education focus of Kasich address
Gov. John Kasich used his third State of the State address on Tuesday to convince Ohioans and state lawmakers that his budget plan is the right mix of smart government service delivery and business-friendly tax policy. Kasich detailed progress made in Ohio since he took office in 2011 and urged ...
$2 billion Medicaid program helps mostly illegal immigrants
During the debate over the 2010 federal health care overhaul, Democrats promised that illegal immigrants wouldn't be among the 27 million people who'd gain coverage. President Barack Obama repeated that pledge last month when he outlined his immigration plan. But while federal law generally bars illegal immigrants from being covered ...
Highlights of Ohio Gov. John Kasich’s two-year budget
Highlights of Ohio Gov. John Kasich’s two-year budget: TAX CUTS Reduces small business taxes by 50 percent, cuts state income tax by 20 percent over three years, and decreases sales tax from 5.5 percent to 5 percent. TAX INCREASES Places taxes on professional services such as lawyers and accountants, and ...
Smokers will pay higher price under Obamacare
Smokers hoping to breathe a little easier under new health care reform laws that prohibit insurers from discriminating based on health conditions might get choked up when they discover the tobacco penalties included in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The law, which prevents health insurers from rejecting people ...
Expanding Medicaid could save Ohio big bucks, report says
If Gov. John Kasich’s administration decides to expand Ohio Medicaid under the federal Affordable Care Act, 450,000 Ohioans would gain health care coverage and the state would save money over the next eight years and then break even in the outlying years, according to a report issued Tuesday by four ...
Three health care reforms coming this year
NEW YORK (MainStreet) — Health care reform won’t kick in fully until 2014. That’s when health care exchanges will roll out and employers will have to decide whether they want to continue offering health care insurance to employees or pay a fine and make them enter an exchange on their own. But ...
Health reform: What's coming in 2013
The year 2012 was a big year for the Affordable Care Act. It survived a Supreme Court challenge and another during the presidential election. With President Obama in office for another four years, the health reform law will continue down the road to take full effect in 2014. But there ...
Health IT workers in high demand
The demand for health information technology workers is surging as the government pushes health care providers to convert to electronic medical records and the nation’s population grows older. Large health care organizations in the region report hiring increases this year as much as 37 percent for information technology workers with ...
Gov. John Kasich adds autism treatment services to Ohio’s health insurance plans
Insurance coverage for autism services, including critical applied behavior analysis, would be available to all state employees and individuals purchasing health insurance through state-based exchanges under plans announced Friday by Ohio Gov. John Kasich.Autism services, including up to 20 hours of behavioral treatment a week, would be defined as part ...
CEO named to lead regional health efforts
A new CEO was named Tuesday to lead the combined operations of the nonprofit health organizations Greater Cincinnati Health Council, the Health Collaborative and HealthBridge.Craig Brammer will be the first chief executive officer to serve in this position, as a result of the reorganization of these three groups this past ...
Will health reform cost me more?
President Obama's re-election guarantees that the health reform law will continue rolling out. A WebMD survey after the election found that many readers want to know what impact the law will have on their health care costs. The answer: It depends on where you get your insurance and your income ...
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