Health Insurance for Children in 2012: eHealthInsurance Publishes Updated Data on Open Enrollment Periods and Product ...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA-- - Today eHealthInsurance , the leading online source of health insurance for individuals, families and small businesses, released an updated list of open enrollment periods for child-only ...

Bills put educators, parents of autistic kids at odds
Bills put educators, parents of autistic kids at odds By Robert Gehrke The Salt Lake Tribune Published Feb 1, 2012 03:15PM MDT Educators and parents of children with autism are being pitted against each other in a pair of proposals on an apparent collision course in the Utah Legislature. Sen. Todd Weiler, R-Bountiful, is proposing a bill that would require any new health care mandates from the ...

Should Utah cancer doctors be able to dispense drugs?
Should Utah cancer doctors be able to dispense drugs? By Patty Henetz The Salt Lake Tribune Published Feb 3, 2012 09:48AM MDT Cancer doctors who want to give patients new “smart” drugs in their offices — a practice now forbidden in Utah — will soon take their case to the Legislature, arguing that the current law can make patients’ lives more miserable and cost them too much money. Supporters say ...

Colorado high-risk health insurance pool runs up claims twice the U.S. average
Colorado's troubled high-risk health-insurance pool has asked the federal government for nearly $15 million more than planned after running up early claims that are twice the national average.

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Educators and parents of autistic children are being pitted against each other in a pair of proposals on an apparent collision course in the Utah Legislature.

States are all over the map on health overhaul
A list of states and their uninsured population, grouped according to the progress they have made in establishing health insurance exchanges, a linchpin for expanding coverage under President Barack Obama's ...

Republican Candidates Get Lucky on Health Insurance
Mitt Romney's rivals may enjoy repeating his line that he likes "being able to fire people who provide services to me," but when it comes to health insurance, he has the luxury of choosing among several coverage options, thanks to the health care reform law he signed in his home state.

Colo. dispute over Medicaid patient 'shared responsibility' simmers and other state Medicaid news
Colorado policymakers are wrestling to bring the burgeoning Medicaid budget under control, as critics fear health insurance for the poor will consume the state budget. But even the smallest cuts or cost-shares raise protests from patient advocates and objections that such measures will prove more expensive in the long run.

UF encounters skepticism from employees over health insurance plan
As the University of Florida seeks to provide its own health insurance plan for its employees, some faculty members are expressing skepticism about the idea.

Bill would allow state workers to insure domestic partners, adult relatives
Bill would allow state workers to insure domestic partners, adult relatives By Rosemary Winters The Salt Lake Tribune Published Jan 18, 2012 06:46AM MDT The ability of Utah’s public employees to share their health insurance with a same-sex partner could be extended beyond liberal outposts in Salt Lake and Summit counties to the farthest reaches of the state. Rep. Brian Doughty, a Salt Lake City ...