For employers fed up with the cost and complexity of their health plans, the easiest course might seem to be to give employees a fistful of dollars and let them buy their own coverage on the open market.
The food fight over what do about obesity is heating up on both sides of the Atlantic as British official are mulling a ban on some television advertising aimed at children, and U.S. officials are considering whether to classify obesity as a disease as opposed to a condition, which would open the door to insurance coverage paying for treatment.
The internet is an open platform, but it lacks ubiquitous wireless coverage and proper positioning technology.
Open enrollment starts Oct. 1, 2013, with coverage beginning as soon as January 2014.
Thirty-eight leading doctors in vascular medicine have written an open letter to Medicare and urged the program not to expand coverage for carotid stents.
The Associated Press normally doesn't identify minors charged in juvenile court, but Mays and Richmond have been widely identified in news coverage, and their names have been used in open court.
The Associated Press normally does not identify minors charged in juvenile court, but Mays and Richmond have been widely identified in news coverage, and their names have been used in open court.
Obama has said he's open to any ideas that expand access to health-care coverage while keeping down costs, while some Democratic senators said they won't back down from demanding a full government-funded public option.
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He also praised the corporation's coverage of the tsunami disaster but said the BBC must be open and accountable when it gets something wrong.
While some of the overhaul's provisions would take effect within months of its passage, the big expansion of coverage wouldn't happen until 2014, when new health insurance marketplaces open for business.
And while insurance companies will be prevented from denying coverage on the basis of pre-existing conditions once the exchange is open, in the meantime there will be a high risk pool where people with pre-existing conditions can purchase affordable coverage.
Natalie Camarata, Memorial Hermann's digital marketing manager, told Mashable the plan to live tweet the operation was hatched following the open-heart surgery, which was viewed an estimated 125 million times through Twitter, Storify and media coverage.
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Anticipation is building, and this month we start an important countdown, first to October 1, 2013, when open enrollment begins, and continuing on to January 1, 2014, the start of new health insurance coverage for millions of Americans.
He was also part of coverage of the PGA Tour, including the Masters from 1968-94, and U.S. Open tennis.
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