Health Insurers Offer to Accept All Applicants, on Condition (New York Times)
The health insurance industry said it would support a plan requiring insurers to accept all customers, but asked that Congress require all Americans to have coverage in return.
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Mikulski gets a top job in drafting health plan (Baltimore Sun)
WASHINGTON Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski of Maryland was named yesterday to lead a Senate working group that will help draft a national health care plan next year. Senate Health Committee Chairman Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts, who has said he would introduce a universal care plan early in the new session of Congress, selected three Democratic veterans to head the groups. Mikulski will focus on ...
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Insurance industry backs health care overhaul if coverage mandated (San Diego Union-Tribune)
WASHINGTON – The health insurance industry said yesterday it would support a national health care overhaul that requires them to accept all customers, regardless of pre-existing medical conditions. In return, it wants lawmakers to mandate that everyone buy coverage.
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Insurers Make Pitch for Health Coverage Mandate (First Coast News)
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The health insurance industry said Wednesday it will support a national health care overhaul that requires them to accept all customers, regardless of pre-existing medical conditions - but in return it wants lawmakers to mandate that everyone buy coverage.
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Kennedy Names Clinton to a Role on Health-Care Plan (Update3) (Bloomberg)
Nov. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Senator Edward Kennedy named fellow Democrat Hillary Clinton to lead a working group on insurance coverage in the effort to write health-care legislation.
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Health Mandate Builds Support As Insurers Endorse Approach (Investor's Business Daily via Yahoo! News)
Political momentum is growing to make everyone buy health insurance -- or else.
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Insurers giving thumbs-up to health coverage overhaul (Worcester Telegram & Gazette)
WASHINGTON - The health insurance industry said yesterday it will support a national health care overhaul that requires them to accept all customers, regardless of pre-existing medical conditions - but in return it wants lawmakers to mandate that everyone buy coverage.
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Health insurers offer to accept all applicants, on condition (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
WASHINGTON — The health insurance industry said Wednesday that it supported an overhaul of the health care system that would require insurers to accept all customers, regardless of illness or disability. But in return, insurers said, Congress should require that all Americans have coverage. The proposals, put forward by the two main trade associations for the industry, have the potential to ...
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Health care reform on fast track (Business Insurance)
WASHINGTON—Despite the nation's deepening economic crisis, the pressure is on to put health care reform on a fast track in Congress.
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Health insurers offer to accept all applicants, on condition (Spartanburg Herald-Journal)
Published: Thursday, November 20, 2008 at 5:19 a.m. Last Modified: Thursday, November 20, 2008 at 4:41 p.m. WASHINGTON — The health insurance industry said Wednesday that it would support a health care overhaul requiring insurers to accept all customers, regardless of illness or disability.
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