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Panel: No state health ‘exchange’
By admin at 18 November, 2011, 4:47 pm
South Carolina should not manage its own “exchange” where health coverage will be sold once the new federal health care law takes full effect in 2014, a state panel is expected to recommend today. The S.C. Health Planning Committee wants private companies to create their own exchanges to sell insurance, an option critics said will [...]
Read More >>Travel insurance firms to cash in on space tourism
By admin at 18 November, 2011, 10:44 am
November 18 2011 at 05:00am A German insurer will offer space travel insurance, hoping to cash in on a wave of “ordinary astronauts” ahead of the first commercial space trips next year. Allianz says it will offer space travel policies, covering everything from cancelled trips to medical cover, from the start of next year to [...]
Read More >>Workers’ Health Premiums Rose 63% in 7 Years: Study
By admin at 17 November, 2011, 4:25 pm
Enlarge image Workers’ Health Premiums Rose 63% in Seven Years David McNew/Getty Images Workers bore higher out-of-pocket costs as well. Workers bore higher out-of-pocket costs as well. Photographer: David McNew/Getty Images U.S. workers’ health insurance premiums rose 63 percent from 2003 to 2010 as employers shifted more of the burden of rising medical costs to [...]
Read More >>German firm starts selling space travel insurance
By admin at 17 November, 2011, 10:23 am
FRANKFURT — A German firm plans to start offering space travel insurance, hoping to cash in on a new wave of “ordinary astronauts” who have signed up for commercial space trips. Commonwealth Media Services Elk lure visitors to Pennsylvania Wilds A funny thing happened nearly 100 years after people brought magnificent bugling elk back to central [...]
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